Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-01
BLOW ON THE Ba1y|II.b.
Many Schooners Wrecked and Driven
Ashore on the Newfoundland Banks and
Many Fishermen Drowned-Sixty Lives
Lost and Inca1culable Damage Done to
the Various Fishing Interests.

Many Fishermen Drowned-Sixty Lives
Lost and Inca1culable Damage Done to
the Various Fishing Interests.
ST. JOHN, N. F., Aug. 81 From arrivals the
past twenty-four hours from the Grand banks,
intelligence of alarming disasters to the
fishing fleet are received. The most reliable
and definite news comes from Gloucester
of the schooner Wachusetts. She was anchored
about twenty miles southeast of Virgins, mar
rowly escaped the fury of the storm and ran for
land. While coming in she passed through an
amount of wreckage indicating destructive
gale. The storm was from the eastward shortly
after sunrise on Sunday last. The heavy sea
rapidly piled up and became confused and
chOppy by the wind veering to north northeast.
For thirty miles of the schooner's course wreck
age was encountered on every side, many dories
were seen bottom up, and oars, fish, boards and
other material in large quantities were passed
from time to time. French fishing brig
alone lost four dories, with all
hands. The vessels decks were swept,
A general estimate, based on the best informa-
ton obtainable, puts the loss of life from sixty
to eighty souls, while the damage to the feet is
incalculable. At the time the gale sprung up
there were, it is assumed, 1900 dories away at
their travis, and it will be fortunate if the ex-
tent of the damage to the feet is circumscIibed
within this report.
HALIFAX, Aug 31.-The following later re-
port of the damage to shipping by the gale is
received by the schooner Mary: The total
wreck at Mavadarie: The schooner Setter,
driven ashore at Arishat and bilged; schooner
Alice l.. NJ. Crondis, reported ashore at Margaret,
Cape Breton; schooner Mary e. Bodkis, ashore
at Lardyise; schooner Foaming Billow ashore at
Sheet harbor, but likely to gel off; schooner
Queen, of the feet from Labrador, bound to
Nuremberg, reported ashore at Englishtown,
Cape Breton; schooner J. B. Dillivan went
ashore at Scatline Island, Cape Breton, but will
probably be got off; brig Annie, Jammica, for
Montreal, forty-four days out, reported at Cape
Breton in leaky condition.
The steamer Brynglas, of Pensacola, for Bar
row, arrived to-day for coal, reports it felt the
storm very severely from 5 O'Clock Wednesday
evening to daylight the following morning. The
wind blew with terrific force, and while the en-
gines at full speed tried to keep the ship up to
burst, and steam had to be shut
off. With the assistance of sails the ship was
kept up to the wind until the engines got to
work again, and with the use of one boiler she
bore up for this port. The accident to the
boiler will not detain the steamer here.
A telegram from Cow bay, Cape Breton, re-
ports the gale fearful there. The American brig
Atlas and the schooners Edward Johnson and
Volunteer were driven asho e and all except the
Edward Johnson will probably be total wrecks.
The Volunteer, which was laden with coal, had
its bottom knocked out. The schooner Ripple,
with 200 quintals Of fish, was sunk in her dock.
Other small er craft were wrecked, but with no
loss of lives.