The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-01
WORK OF WILD WAVES.
STORM oNNoarH ATLANTIC COAST,
Destruction of Shipping and LIh--PIshIur smaeks
Ourtaksu BY the Gale without Moments
warnIrS-Ons HaAdssd DOrleS Lost
and Eighty Sailors DrOwntd.

HALIFAX, August 3l.-Late intelligence
OF the effects OF Wednesday nights storm
around the coast OF Nova Scotia, shows the
damage to shipping quite extensive. Ter
schUoners were driven ashore, some com
pletely wrecked, and others badly damaged
The fury Of the gale was terrific. The
tower Of the new Catholic Church at Cape
Benton was carried away, and large
wooden building was moved from III
foundation.
NEw YoRX, August 3l.-A 81. Johns, N
f., special says: A fleet oil United States
fishing vessels, which arrived here las.
night, report that there WAS violent storm
on Great Banks on Sunday last. The gale
arose from the eastward at s O'Clock in the
morning, when hundreds OF dories were
away from the vessels overhauliug travis.
Captain Nillier reports seeing scores Of
dories turned upside down, and that
the wreckage was strewn in every direc-
tion along his track coming westward
One French "bauker" lost four dories and
all their crews. II Is computed from all
the sources OF information that one hun
dred dOrles and eighty men have been lost
in the storm. Most OF the dories were
swept by the waves from the schooner's 3
decks, and the remainder collapsed in the
sea.
EXTENT OF THE DISASTER.
ST. JouSs, N. B., August 3l.-From arri.
walls the past twenty.lour hours from the
Great Banks intelligence Of alarming disas.
ters to fishing fleets have been received.
The most reliable and definite news came
from the Gloucester schooner Wachusett.
She was anchored about twenty miles
southeast Of Virgins, and narrowly escaped
the Jury Of the storm, and ran for land.
While coming in she passed through vast
amount Of wreckage, indicating the de.
structiye work Of the gale. The storm
arose from the eastward shortly after sun.
rise Sunday last A heavy sea rap
idly piled up and became confused
and chopped by the wind yeering TO the
north. For thirty miles OF the schoOner's
course wreckage was encountered on every
side. Many u0ries were seen bottom up,
and oars, Iiyhboats aud other material In
large quantities passed from time to time.
One French fishing brig alone lost four do.
ries with all hands. The vessels decks
were swept, cables parted and anchors lost.
The general estimate bSsed upon the best
information at present obtainable, puts the
loss OF lie at at from sixty to eighty souls,
while the damage to the fleet is incalcuIa-
ble.
At the time the gale sprung up there
wsre, it is assumed, 1900 dories away at
their travis and it will be fortunate II the
extent OF the disaster 10. the Great Bank
fleet is cirCumscribed within this report.
,a TIE NUMBER OF WRECKS
HALIFAX, August 3l.-The following
later reports OF damage to shipping by
the gale are received. The schooner Mary
Is total wreck at Manatiere. The
schooner Stetier wSs driven ashore at
Archat and the Schooner Alice N. Crondis
is reported ashore at Msrgaree, Cape Bre.
ton.
The schooner Mary Z. Banks is ashore
at Lardesy. The schooner Foamy Billow
is ashore at Sheet Harbor but is likely to
get of. The schooner Queen Of the Fleet,
from Labrador, bound for Lewisburg, is re-
pulLtN hSiUIe dt cuR'!otlluWUI SApt DTt-
ton. The schooner J. b. DiIwen went
ashore at Scatterie island, but viii be got
oil. The biigantine Annie, from Jamaica,
for Montreal, Al days out, is reported at
Sydney, Cape Breton, in a leaky condi-
tion.
The steamer Brypglass, from Pensacola
for Barron, arrived to-day for coal and re-
pairs. She felt the storm very severely
from 5 o'clock Wednesday evening 10 day
light the following morning. The wind
blew with terrific force, and while the en-
ginss were at full speed to Try to keep
the ship before the wind, the iced pipe OF
one boiler burst and the steam had TO be
shut of. With the assistance OF sails the
vessel was kept up to the wind until the
engines were got to work again. With the
tlse. OF one boiler she bore up tor this port.
A telegram from Cow Bay, Cape Bre.
ton, reports the gale fearful there. The
American brig Allas and schooners Ed
ward johnson and Volunteer were driven
ashore and all except the Edward johnson
will be total wrecks. The Volunteer,
which was laden with coal, had the bot.
tom knocked out. The schooner Ripple,
with two hundred quintals OF fish, was
sunk in her dock. 0tner smaller craft were
wrecked, but no lives lost.