The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-01
The Great Storm iu the East.
ern Provinces.
Further Details of Havoc among the
Shipping and Dreadful Loss Of

Further Details of Havoc among Ihl
Shipping and Dreadful Loss o
Life. 81. ..... ..Fr.
HALIFAX, August 30.-A dispatch iron
Sydney states that the schooner EurOpt
capsized in the gale Of Sunday last. Al
hands were Lost. There are over OnI
hundred vessels ashore at different parts
Of Cape Breton. Seventeen are ashore al
LouIsburg.
The steamer Ocean Wave dragged an
chors and went to pieces on Cape Hogan
All hands perlsh6d. Another schooner
lost two men, and q brig went down al
her anchorage in Carribo Cove with al
on board. Other vessels and crews are
known to be lost.
It's estimated that over one hundred
buildings have been destroyed In Cause
and vicinity, entailing 8 loss Of over
100000. At Cause every ship In the
harbor q high and dry. Every wharf
and fishing establishment have been
swept away, and debris lines the entire
shore. At the public hail there Is q heap
of splinters, in which Is buried q splendid
organ. All the buildings public and private,
are moro or less injured. The Catholic
chapel Is. in ruins. The fShermen have
lost their all, and many Of them had to
flee from their dwellings with their chill.
dren naked out into the pitiless storm.
Out of a fleet Of over 800 fishing yes.
sells only 20remain. Several Of the fisher
men have lost upwards Of $1,000 each.
One schooner lies one hundred feet above
low water mark. A schooner belonging
to ProVincetOwn, Mass, in attempting TO
enter the hRrbOr Of Shellburn on Sunday
night, struck q rect of Black Point, and
as she dragged her anchor, the Captain
and his vile with their infant, left the YES.
sel, and alter rowing about all night, land.
ed about noon the next day In q very ex.
hausted condition. The remainder OF the
eEOw, numbering twelve men, lett the
wreck In two bOaaSy aAd hama -nat- -hnnn
heard from. The vessel sunk. II
Is said that forty dead bodies have
drifted ashore on the north side
Of Prince Edwards Island and at other
points bodies are washing up. The
steamship Sallwcll, Captain Marco, from
London for Sydney, @. B., foundered of
Scatterie Sunday night OF eleven o'clock.
The liieboat, with the captain and four.
teen Of the crew; landed at Fourchie,
G. b., at ten O'clock Monday forenoon.
One boat with six men was lost along
aide the steamer, and another boat with
nine men Is missing, but Is supposed to be
Of Louisburg. Two brigs and two schoon.
ers are ashore at Lingan, and at MenhR-
den five schooners are totally wrecked.
seamen were washed from fishing
in the harhor Of Halifax, and
the brig Oak Point, which left Halifax
Sunday, toundered the same night. The
crew were saved. c H
The crops throughout the country OF
Cape Breton are badly damaged.
A schooner from Labrador which ar.
rived today spoke an American fishing
schooner in the Straits oI Cause,
which reported thirty American 6shing
Bchooners ashore at Pleasant bay 1t Is
reported that forty American fishing yes
sells were lost of the north side OF Prince
Island, and that only eighteen
lIeves were saved out Of all the crews, but
none Of the late arrivals credit the report
at ChArlettetownG At Prince Edward
Island the storm was very destructive TO
lie and property, The destruction OF
fishing boats Is unprecedented, six square
rigged vessels were wrecked on the north
ern coast, and the crew Of two Of them
Four American fishing vessels
were wrecked aud the crews all lost
Dead bodies and wrecked material are
floating ashore. The wharves and bridges
throughout the Island are damaged,
number Of buildings were blown down.
The schooner Bonnie Jean was lost with
all hands at Cape CavendlSh. VI
The Collector at. MagdalenS Island re-
ports fifty British and American vessels
ashore there. On a-
Henry Watson alina MnCaSuIank. haa
been arfested at, Little Glace Bay, for the
murder Of Alexander Livingstone, in Au'
yuat 1870