Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-17
THE AUGUST GALES.

mana. lue SCuoNueE ,fIc VI DloohiJH,
n. Y, went down off Old Harry Head,
Magdalen Island with IL hands, four
teen in number Nothing since been
seen OF the wreck, except board with
the word ''Tyro' painted on it, which
drifted ashore The crew consisted of
Spencer Hiram Godfrey, William
Dexter, Henry Horne, John A. Monser,
William A. Monser, jr, Joseph Went
zilt, James Pentz, and L. Jones.
Most of them were married men with
families
The brig Ellen, wrecked off Cariboo
Cave, Straits OF Canso, is on an even
keel in nine fathoms of water. The
foremost is broken below the cap. The
mainsail is single reefed The coal can
not be saved. The bodies of the crew
were found those of the captain and
his son in the cabin, the former stand
ing and the latter lying down. Their
chests were lashed ready to go on shore.
The lashing of the boat was cut, and the
painter fast There were found also
carpet bag and some letters, showing
that evidently there was passenger on
board. The bodies of the captain, two
seamen, and passenger who is suppos-
ed to be James McMullen, were recov-
cred, and have been taken to Arichat
and buried.
The schooner Ann, Capt. Grimes, of
Arichat, is missing. She was from sgd
ney, coal laden, for Halifax, and during
the gale was seen off Devils Island, her
crew working at the pumps. As she
was an old vessel, there is no doubt but
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consisting of five persons. The captain
leaves widow and five children at Ari-
chat.
Further particulars concerning the
loss of the American schooner Eureka
of New York at Black Point, G. b.,
have been received. An empty box and
cover have been found on shore in the
vicinity of the wreck. The letters " w.
D. NJ are cut on the inside of the
cover There was also found memoir
andum-book with the name of John j.
Morse written in pencil on one of the
leaves. On the 9th instant body came
ashore at Cape Dolphin, and on the
9Th instant the bodies of man and wo-
man were washed ashore in the same
vicinity. 1t is supposed they belonged
IA.
the vessel is marked with the following
figures 5,66S, No. S,649." The
hull was sold to-day by order of the
Consular agent of the United States at
Sydney. A number of vessels which
went ashore in Sydney Harbor during
the gale have since been tioated off, and
are now undergoing repairs. Several of
the stranded vessels have been sold at
prices arranging from sixty five dollars
to three hundred dollars.
Commander w. Frost OF the schooner
J. W. Danscomb, at Sydney, reports
the ship Scotia ashore at Port Rich,
Newfoundland, dismasted and broadside
on the beach. She has a cargo of pine,
which is not disturbed. The wreckers
were exasperated on account of the ac-
ton of the Dunscomb in protecting the
wreck, and threatened to take their
lives, and would have set fire to the
ship if they could. The Scotia will
probably go to pieces the first wester-
ly wind. She was working and
striking amidships. The wreckers
have apparently endeavored to destroy
everything possible. They have sawed.
off the bowsprit and cat-heads, and cut
away the lanyards to dismast the vessel.
The cargo may possibly be saved if at
tended to Immediately.
The storm which caused such great
loss to life and property on the Nova
Scotia coast, August "a, reached Labra-
dor on the 9th OF August Informa-
ton received from that coast shows that
the storm was very severe, and caused
doc m, 70 nc
we'll as property on shore. The fishing
flakes, wooden huts and moorings at In
dian Tickle were torn to fragments by
the hurricane, and the seines along the
shore and in the water were totally de-
stroyed
Four persons, two brothers and two
sisters, were killed by the falling of the
rafters of their dwelling, and two bro
theirs were drowned by the blowing
down of q flake to which they were try
ing to secure their skiff. One brig and
five brigantines in and off Indian Tickle
during the gale were lost. The brig
was the Oceanides of Gloucester. She
went down with all on board. The
names of three o. the brigantines only
were known. These were the Princess
Louise of Sydney, Cape Breton /; the
Barbarossa of Bay Roberts, n. F.,
which had several women and two fami-
lies on board ; and the Primrose of
Gaspe Bay, Quebec. During the pre-
sent season the fisherman of Ineian
Tickle had accumulated an unusually
large quantity of cod and herring oil,
but scarcely a gallon was left them after
the gale. The oil was gen erally slowed
in frail buildings near the flakes, many
of which We're destroyed during the
squalls which preceded the gale. The
loss to life on land as far as can be as
certained is twenty-three women and
fourteen men, beside number of chill
dren. The cause of death in most in
stances was the falling of the heavy
timbers and roofs of the dwelling
houses, or of the stones with which the
chimneys of many of the huts were con-
structed.
The shore along the harbor was Gov
cred with wrecked sklffs and razed
houses and huts. The number of lives
lost in boats near the shore is not
known, but is doubtless very large. AT
Battle Harbvr, Cape Charles. Cape
Harrison, and Lance Loup, the de-
struction of property and the loss of life
were also very large. Three square
rugged vessels were dashed on the bar
or breakers at Cape Harrison, and it is
believed all hands on board of them