The Portland daily press., 1883-09-03
WEDNESDAYS STORM.
Vessels Arriving-The Accounts Of
the Storm they Give.
Further Wrecks Reported.
Two Gales, One Sunday and One
Wednesday.

PRovINcETowN, Mass, Sept. 2.--The recent
gale is the subject of general comment among
the people here, as every one living here has
friends or relatives who pass the summer
months on the hanks of Newfoundland. The
arrivals from the Banks during the last forty
eight hours are schooners John A. Matherson,
John Simmons, Ellen Swift, Star King, Maud
Witherell and Abbie A. Grant. Capt. Battle,
of schooner John A. Matherson, reports that
he left the Banks Friday, Aug. oath, touching
at St. Peters on the way, and left ST. Peters
last Sunday in company with schooner Ellen
Swift. On Wednesday last, when off Halifax,
east, increased to gale, and later backed to
northeast, rapidly increasing in violence, and
between the hours Of and p. m, it was the
most violent gale he ever experienced. The
Matherson is new vessel and strongly built SO
that she came through the gale with but little
damage, three badly damaged dories being the
extent of her injury. He saw no wrecks Oh
wreck material. Probably the most serious
damage which has yet been reported as hap
pening 10 vessels is the case of the schooner
John s. Simmons, which arrived last night.
Capt. Bailey reports that he left the Grand
Banks Aug. Goth for home. Wednesday last,
when south of Cape Sable, in long. 65, lat. 4235,
while running under two reefed foresail, the
wind blowing very heavily in the afternoon,
the wind increased to gale and he was obliged
to lay to under bare poles. The gale continued
to be extremely violent for seven or eight hours,
blowing hardest about p. m. The sea washed
the bulwarks and stanchions and three dories
from the deck, and badly stove nearly all those
remaining. The following day he spoke the
bark Marquis of Lorne. of and for st. John, N.
B., in lat AZ g. Ion. 65 10. He reported he re-
ported he was in the hurricane but he received
no damage. OF the seven arrivals mentioned
all have lost more or less of their dories, but
the vessels mostly escaped serious damage.
Some anxiety is felt concerning the schooners
Lottie Bell and Ada K Daman. 1t was sup
the Monday previous to the gale, and as she is
quite an old vessel and nothing has yet been
heard from her, it is feared she may have re-
ceivod rough passage. The Damon sailed the
morning of the same day on which the Maud
'Witheren left, but no tidings of her have yet
north of Cape Sable, while the Damon proba-
bly, went south of it. The latter vessel is said
to be loaded very deeply. All OF the vessels
thus tar arrived sailed from the Banks previous
to Sunday, on which day the gale is reported to
have occurred. These experienced gale on
the following Wednesday, which shows con-
clusively that there was two gales, as gales usu-
ally follow a northeasterly course. The gale
which occurred on the Banks a week ago to-
day could not have been the same one expert
enced by our vessels on their homeward
voyage. Reports of large loss OF life are gener-
ally discre6ited by our sea captains. They say
the vessels were all loaded deeply and heavy
sea washing over their decks where their do
ries were slowed in nests as they are called,
the dories being placed inside OF each other
and eight or ten OF them lashed together,
would wash them overbord. As it was, on
the Sabbath none of the Provincetown dories
would be out fishing, and if there was any loss
of life it would be from those tending trawls
Our fishermen are all using hand lines. A
telegram was received yesterday announcing
William Matherson, Teresa d. Barker and
Isaac Kane. They report all right and do not
mention any gale These vessels must have
been on the Banks on Sunday last. The ar
rivals to date number about thirty. There are
abont twenty vessels yet to be heard from.
There are about thirteen vessels in the Gulf Of
ST. Lawrence from which nothing have been
heard for about thirty days. The catch is re-
ported small in that vicinity, but no anxiety is
felt concerning them, as 1t is thought the gale
was not severe in their direction. One Of the
vessels which has arrived was in the vicinity
of Georges Banks during the gale and reports
it as probably not SO severe as it was far
ter east. The catch on the Banks has been un-
usually large this season, every vessel thus far
arriving having full fare. No loss of life or
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ported.
HALIFAX, N. s., Sept IA telegram from
Liverpool, Queens county, says the fishing
schooner Ella, of that port ran ashore at Port
Morton during Wednesdays storm and is
total wreck. The cargo has been saved.
The brig Curlew is reported to have gone
ashore at Lingen, G. B.
AT Stanns, G. B., the bark Alice, loaded
with plaster for Montreal, drove ashore and a
steam tug has left North Sydney to give her
assistance.
A schooners spars, which has been sunk
about two years off North Sydney harbor, has
been towed into port There is no doubt but
that the vessel of which the spars were part,
went down where found with all on board. 1t
may be that while anchored in the middle fish
ing grounds she was run into and sunk by a
steamer and never reported.
The steamer Edgar Stuart, from Charlotte
town, arrived last night with the schooner Ac-
tive in tow, the latter having suffered the loss
of her sails during the the storm on Wednes-
day last.
Later reports from Cow Bay, G. B., state that
that the American brig Atlas and the schoon-
ers ). @. Tupper, Volunteer, Blce Wave and
Ripple are total wrecks, and that the brig G.
B. Sherwood is badly damaged. The English
st Gamer Hercules was slightly injured. Ten
ders are advertised for floating and delivering
at North Sydney the American three masted
schooner E. e. johnson, which was stranded
in Cow Bay during the gale.