Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-09-06
FOREIGN.


In' hatcc OF the storm.
HALlrAx. August 29.-NTail and teIe-
graph details of the storm of Sunday
night are constantly being received. The
destruction of life and property on land
and sea was frightful. 1t far exceeds
the estimates. From all sections there
come reports of houses and barns being
blown down, crops destroyed and cat
Tie killed. Such fearful havoc has not
hecn known in Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton for the last thirty years. At
present no accurate idea of the loss,
both to land property and shipping, can
be formed, but will i'll all probability
reach several million dollars. Already
many lives are reported lost, and there
is too much reason to believe that many
vessels were lost, together with all
hands. Fishermen on the eastern coast
have suffered severely, all having lost
their boats. fishing tackle, etc., from
Guyboro to Cape Canso.
HALIFAX, Aug. 3O.-A dispatch from
Sydney, Cape Breton, st;scs that the
schooner EUIup0 caps;zed in the gale
on Sunday last. All hands were lost.
Over 100 vessels are ashore ut Cape
Breton, and Is are ashore at Louisburg.
The schooner O.Gn Ware dragged her
anchors and went to pieces on Cape
Hogan, all hands rerishinG. Another
schooner was lost with two men. A
brig went down at hcr anchorage in
Cariboo Cove with all on board. Other
vessels and crews arc known to be lost.
Over 100 buildings were destroyed in
Can3o AID vicinity, cntailing II loss OF
over SlOO, 900. At Canso every ship is
high and dry, and every wharf and fish
ing establishment is swept away, and
the debris lines the entire shore. At
the public hall there is heap of
splintcrs, in which is buried a 81 len
did organ. All buildings. public and
private, are molc or less injured. The
Catholic chapel is ruined. Many fisher
men have lost their all, and many others
had to flee from their dwellin: IS with
their children, naked, into the pitilcss
storm. Dat of fleet Of over 800 fish
Ing vessels only 20 remain. Several
fishermen have lost in fish and gear ap-
ward of 0000 each. a vessel on
shore lies II feet above low water mark.
1t is said that 40 dead bodies have
l.
Edwards Island and at other points
bodies arc washing upon the beach.
Foundrrin2 OF an Ocean Steamer.
HALIFAX, Aug. 3O.--Thc steamship
iSaH,reN, Capt. Mace, from London, for
Sydney. and Cape Breton. foundcred off
Scattrie on Sunday night. The life
boat with the Captain and IA of the crew
landed at Fourshirc, Cape Breton, on
Monday morning. One boat with six
men was lost alongside the steamer.
Another boat with nine men is missing,
but it is supposed to DO at Louisburg.
Marine Disasters I'm the Recent storm or
Cape Breton.
IINLrx, Sept. 1.-The brig T. w. 4. Rogers,
which left Liverpool for Nova Scotia on tho
18th of February, for Barbados has not been
The schooner Good Intent, of Arclal. was
lowed into Port Hood, Cape Breton on Friday
full of water. Five bodies were taken from
her hold.
The schooner SassacdSs of Provincctown,
Mass, was lost at Cape Negro, Nova Scotia,
OF Sunday night during the storm.
One ofthe dorics containing one of the crew,
landcdat Barcoras,a light station. since which
time nothing further has been heard of tho
other dorics, which are believed to have been
lost.
The brig Faith. of Swansea laden with iron,
fOundered outside Cascumpic bar pier during
the Storm All hands were lost.
The schooner CmTie'ich, Capt. Thompson,
was wrecked on North Cape, Reef Island, on
the nth \ number of persons persisted.
Several vessels wore wrecked near North
Cape, Prince Edwards island. Several bodies
have been picked upon the east side of that
place.
Bombariment of Carthagenia Imminent.
MADRID, September 1.-Rear Admiral
Alder has gone to Barcelona on the
flagship Wabash. English residents
have all fled from Carthagena in antici-
patton of an attack by Gen. Campos on
the insurgents. The provisions OF the
rebels in the town are nearly exhausted,
and the men are raiding on shops ana
private houses to obtain food. Among
many reports concerning the intentions
of Don Carlos to prevent his success,
is one that he has promised priests to
re-establish the inquisition.
ColIiery Explosion In Wales.
LAwNsEA, September IA colliery
explosion this morning killed five men.
Another Aspirant to the spanish Throne.
MADRID, August 3O.-It is ascertained
that Hidalgo will be appointed Minister
to the United States.
A rumOr is current to the effect that
Alphonse, Prince of Asturias, Will
shortly attempt on Spanish soil to pro-
claim his succession to the throne.
Another Railway Murder.
LONDON, September 2.-Accounts
have been received of an accident ON
the Luxembourg railway, by which
eighteen passengers were killed an tif-
teen wounded.
Cholera In France.
PARIS, Sept. 2.-Cholera has madeits
appearance among the troopsin Havre'
having been communicated, itisthouSht'
by German emigrants en- route to the
United States. Fashionable loungers
of Theonville are much alarmed and
are leaving as rapidly as possible.