, 1873-09-01
THE EASTERN STORM.

Only Twenty Out OF n Eject OF Three
z1u,ttrcd EishtnE Veascla Survive
the GAlo-Additi0nnl Accounts OF
tho Destruction ON Lnnl.
HALIFAX, Aug. S0.-A dispatch from Sydney
Q. d. states that tho schooner Europa capsizod
in tho gale Of Sunday ast and oil hands were lost.
Thoro arc over hundred vessels ashore ut df
feront parts Of Cape Broton. Seventeen arc
ashore ut LouiBb1irg. Tho hchoouor Ocean
Wavo dragged hor anchors aud went to pieces
Oh Cape Hogan, all hands porishing. Another
schooner lost two mon, and brig vent down at
her anchorage In Carribo Cove, wiSh all on
board. Other vesseiH and cfo's arc known to
be lost.
It is estimated that over 100 buildings hnve
beon destroyed III GauBo and vicinity, ontailing
d. loBs Of ovor 100000. At Canso every ship III
tile harbor ia high md dry. Evory Wharf antl
the debris lines the entire shore. The Public
Hall thora III ahenpof Bpfnters. in which is buriol
Bplondid orgau. All buildings. public aud pri-
vate aro moro or less injured. The Catholic
chapel il ruin. Tho flHhormon have lost ali,
aud many Of thcm had to neo from thoir
dwellings, with thcr, children, mixed. out
into tho pitiloss storm. Out OF foot
of over 800 hshing-vosaels, only 20 renlain.
Several Of the fishermen havc lost in fish and
gear upwards of q thousand dollars each. Quo
schooner lies hundred feet above low water
mark. .
4 schooner belonging to provincotown,
htaBs., in attempting to roach tilt hurbor of
slielburuo, Sunday night, str.,ck OIL rock or
Captain, wife, and infant LOTT lie vessel and
rowing about all night landed about noon Tie
next day in q very exhausted condition.. The ro-
mainder Of tho crew., numbering twelvo pen,
left tho wreck in two boats, aud hlyo not boon
heard froul. The veAsolsuuk.
It il said Tint forty dead bodies have drlftod
ashore on tho north side Of Prince Edwards ISL
and, and at other points bodies are washing up
on tho bench.
Steamship Saltwoll, Capt. Mace, from London
for Sydney, G. D., foundered or bcattorie, Sun
day night, at II. A lifeboat VII tho Captain and
folrteon Of tie crow landed ut Fourcllio G. b.. at
10 O'Clock Monday morning. Ono boat with six
men was lost alongside Of the steamer. and an
other boat with nino men ia missing, but IL sup
poHed to be at Louisburg.
Two briggs anu two schooners are ashore at
Lingan, aud at Monhadeu five Hohootlera nre to-
tally wrecked. A seaman WIS washed from =
fishing achoonor in tho lar'or Of Halifax. Tho
brig Oak Point, which loft Halifax Sunday, fonl,-
dercd tile aame night. Tho crew we're saved.
Tho crops throughout tho County Of Cape Brot4
on arc badly damaged.
A schooner from Labrador, arrived today,
Of Canso which reported thirty American fishing
9choonors ashore at Pleasant Bay. It il reported
that forty American fishing vessels woro lost of
the south eido of Prince Edwards Island, and
tint only eiglltusn lives were saved out Of MI
tne oFoWs, put Houe VI tAo 4ate httAsaas cloolt
tho report.
At Charlottotown, Prince Edwards Islapd, the
storm was worry destructive to life aud property
The destruction of Ashing-boata is unprocodent-
cd. Blk squaro-rigged vessels woro wrecked on
the northern ooast, and tho crowa OF
two Of them we're drowned Four Amor
lean ilshing-yeaaols wore also wrockod astd
the crows all lost. Doad bodies aud wrecked
material aro floating ashore daily. The wharyes
aud bridges throughout tho island arc damaged.
A number Of buildings wero blown down.
Tho schooner Bonnie Jean was lost, with all
hands at Cape Cavondsh.
Slip Chascongas, timber-ladeu, for Liverpool.
is total loss at Cave Head. Grow saved. The
Collector Of Customs at NIagdaen IBlnul reports
fifty Dritiah aud American vessels ashore there.