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lent death, and his higher ambition was to
change the tradition that an Aston must al
ways die in his boots. He was widely and
favorably known.
WIDOWED AND ORPHANED.

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WIDOWED AND ORPHANED.
Probable loss of a Fishing Fleet of Four
teen Vessels-O,se Hundred and Foaty-
Ssn Ltves Supposed to Haze Been Lost.
Boston Special March IL.
A disaster, appalling in its terrible fatali-
ty, and heavy in the financial loss it has
caused, has fallen on the city of Gloucester,
which previously contained far more than
the usual proportion of widows and orphans,
and enterprises sorely smitten by the bust
ness depression of the past few years.
On the night of the Goth Of February q
gale of almost unprecedented violence, &C.
companied with binding snow and sleet,
came roaring down upon the Georges fleet.
About fifty vessels occupied the most danger
GUS positions, and of this number it is feared
that fourteen we're lost
If all that is feared did happen,
ONE HUNDRED AND FoRTY-sIx MEN,
the husbands of forty -one wives and the
fathers of nearly one hundred children, and
property which cannot be replaced for less
than $4,000, were swallowed up by the
raging waters.
For the past week or ton days the excite
nent in the city has been intense.
At first not much alarm was felt, but, as
vessel after vessel that had weathered the
storm came in and brought no tidings of the
missing ones, the gravest anxiety began to
prevail.
None of those that are missing have been
reported since the gale.
OF the safety of some of them there is vet
a ray of hope, but it is certain that the most
of them will
NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
The anxious waiting for their return has
now given place in the minds of the owners
to the forced conviction that they and their
crews have persisted.
It is probable that no financial distress
will be occasioned, but distressing inhu-
ence will be felt directly or indirectly in
every portion of tho business interests of the
city.
THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
will have to be cared for, and the insurance
on the vessels and outfits, which was all
placed in the Gloucester Mutual Fishing
insurance company, will have to be assessed
upon the firms, and will thus come out of
the general business. The total insurance
is $36,289.
The merchants of Gloucester, however, as
we'll as her fishermen, ale hardy, determined
people, and quickly forget the troubles of
the past In their present endeavors and flu
ture planning. Without asking any outside
help they will settle their own losses, add q
new list of names to the worthy poor whom
they assist, and steadily pursue the while
their historic work of catching, buying and
selling fish.
GEORGES BANK,
upon which the vessels and the men went
down, is situated about 40 miles east south
east from Gloucester, and is the famous
feeding grounds for Goldfish and haddock.
The water shoals gradually from the deep
sea to the center of the bank, where it
ranges in depth from six to twelve fathoms.
ON THE NIGHT OF THE STORM,
fifty sail are supposed to have been inclosed
within a circle of two or three miles north
east of the shoal.
About fifteen miles northeast from these
was group of seven or eight sail, and away
on Browns bank, about sixty miles further
to the northeast, were several Others.
BREEZE SPRUNG UP ABOUT NOON
of Thursday, and the signs foretold the
coming storm.
AS the hours passed the wind increased in
violence, and at midnight was blowing ter
rible gale from the northeast
The air was filled with snow and frozen
spray SO thickly that nothing could be seen.
Every vessel, exposed as they all were to
the wild force of the gale and the waves,
dragged its anchors or parted it's cables, and
ALL DR1FTED
more or less rapidly. No canvass could re-
sist for moment the fierce rush of the wind.
and there was nothing for the sailors to do
but to wait, and hope for the storm to abate
it's violence, or for the wind to shift to diff
ferent quarter. Unless one of these two
things happened, certain destruction was be-
hind them on the foaming shoals.
THE MEN WHOM FORTUNE FAVORED
have returned, and some of them say that,
during long lives spent upon tho ocean, they
never before experienced such gale with
such a sea.
There was not one vessel in the whole fleet
that did not sustain more or less damage
DURING SUNDAY MORNING
the Wlnd backed around gradually toward
the north and northwest, and at noon had
moderated SO that there was no further
danger.
One or two of the vessels that were on
Browns were blown across the open sea sixty
miles to Georges.
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