Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
THE STORM ~ THE ATLANTIC.
Additional Details Of Damage on the

coast of New Brunswick and Nova SEQ
tia. The damage to the town and
county OF Picton has been very great
Fences. gates, and in fact everything
capable Of being moved by the wind
was scattered around the streets and
fields. The leaves of fruit trees arr
blasted and withcred, and qardent
generally present most depiorablt
appearance. The new wharfin course
OF construction for the Vale Colliery
Company, near Picton Landing, is al.
mostentirely demolished. A portion
of the railway at Picton Landing was
also washed away. Three vessels went
ashore on Fishers Grant, and two
others were driven ashore on the same
side of the :harbor.i IL On the :Picton side
the public wharf and afews Others have
been damaged. The, cellars and ware.
houses Mon Water Street were Hooded,
and quahttGesAot nefohsadizs, ,f1ured
- Four Gridsess5 we're ,aa I Washed away a,
Fort: Hastings, where the. storm wat
at Port sMulgrove, 81 four at Tifate'f
Cove, iostr q Part Hawkesbury, and
four at Port Hood.
Great damage was done at Port Null.
grove. One child was killed at Cape
Jack, by, the falling of house.
East of Halifax tho storm was the &C.
verest that has swept over the country
for years. Two unfinished churches
were blown downs at Cane Ray. There
are some accounts of the disasters of
the hurricane from other sections OF
the province. Westward the fruit cron
has been almost wholly destroyed, and
within radius of twenty miles fences.
trees, and barns are prostratel and
shipping damaged. In Hautsport,
three schooners broke away from their
mornings and were seriously damaged.
The Cunard steamer Alpha arrived
trow Cow Bay, gives further particu-
lars OF the gale there. A large number
OF vessels are ashore, and q large mum
Der dismasted and not ashore. Many
small schOOners we're smashed up
beyond hope of Identification. The
number of disasters to vessels at Cow
Bay is fifty, including vessels ashore
and dismasted. One life was lost, a
pilot, name unknown. During the
gale the crew OF the brig G. J. Troots,
being in great danger from the tre-
mendous seas breaking over the vessel,
the captain had a boat hauled over the
snds two miles and launched to succor
the exposed crew. They were success
fui in saving those on board, eight in
number. After this the boats crew
started to rescue the crew of the
Pomona, but the boat was swamped at
once and they had to return. The
crew was subsequently safely landed.
The effects are terrible. Not in the
memory of any resident has such des-
truction been known. At the break.
water, erected at enormous outlay. the
sea played fearful havoc. All the new
works and portions of the old are gone.
The docks are also destroyed. At
Belonica wharf almost all the work was
also destroyed. The damages to the
wharves mentioned it is expected will
reach nearly 100000, while other
damages, including shipping, will
probably foot up 81, 600, 600. 1t is ex-
pected that over one hundred vessels
have been driven ashore at the several
harbors of Cape Breton. Eight vessels
are ashore at Greysborough, and every
wharf in the harbor there, and a num-
Der of stores, were destroyed Cathe-
dral in Antigonishis badly DESTROYED.
The wharf at the same place was de-
stroyed, and schooner driven ashore
an6 man named McAlden drowned.
Four vessels are ashore at Bayfield,.
There is great excitement in North
Sidney, G. B., where the disastrous
effects of tho gale was severely felt.
Mickey & Corbett's and. Moore & In.
graham's wharves were damaged to
considerable extent. The PresbJ terian
Church was lifted thirty feet, and a
number of buildings nnroofed. The
telegraph Office and six, bridges, were
carried away. It is estimated that
damage to shipping ut Sidney will
amount to SIS, 900. About S O'clock
P: NJ, they all began to drift, and by z
o'clock all but two were adfift. Scarce
" a single sailiigivesseI escaped dam.
II is feared the damage to the ship
ping in the gulf has been serious. At
Prince Edwards Island, the ship Jas.
Duncan is ashore, near Wallace, bark
Undine is reported ASHORE On the north
coast of Prince Edwards Island. The
northern shore Of Prince Edwards
ISLAND IL reported being literally strewn
with wrecks. and -wresksd material, 5;
Further intelligence from Cape Bre-
ton is anxiously looked for: fits ap.
pretended that many vessels,sia add.
ton to those reported, have been lost
or ashore, at some coal ports, as most
of the vessels from Cape Breton ports
are at present insured. The loss to
some Of the insurance companies must
be very heavy. OveE 10, 900 tons of
shipping. chartered by the Black
House Mining Company, have been
destroyed.
A dispatch from Glase Bay says that
four vessels are. ashore there, but the
shipping facilities at that port are I'M
impaired by the storm. The coal sup
ply is being continued as usual.
A late dispatch faon Cow Bay, gives
the number of vessels ashore as twenty
six. Ten are aaoat partly damaged,
and two dismasted. Twenty fishing
craft were saved. The vessels savetl
were inside the break-water.