The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
A TERRIFIC STORM.
Great Destruction of Shipping on
the Newfoundland Coast.
Many Lives Lost and Hundreds OF
Vessels Driven Ashore.

Advices from Newfoundland give the
details of a terrible storm on the coast of that
island, which show it to have been more dis
astrous than was at first reported. An enor-
nous amount of shipping was destroyed and
many lives were lost. AT Old Pelican all
the fishing stages and other waterside
property were destroyed and upward of
forty vessels were totally wrecked. Two
schooners only rode out the gale successfully
AT Gates Cove the loss of property is
considerable. Wreckage has drifted
ashore, evidently of two schooners.
A vessel loaded with provisions,
bound from Catalina for Twillingate, and two
other schooners were lost. Three vessels at
Little Catalina We're driven from their moor
ings 70 sea. At Bird Island Cove three
vessels and many small boats went ashore,
and many fishing stages were destroyed.
Eight vessels went ashore at Browns
Cove, and everything was swept away.
Two schooners are ashore at Plate Cove,
and at Bona Vista five schooners were
totally lost, and n great many stages and
fishing jacks are also gone. The beach
is filled with drift timber. The ship Christa-
bel, laden with salt at Bona Vista, drlfted
near the rocks and was In great peril, and the
crew cut her masts away. One of the crew
was drowned. The rest were taken off the
hull. Seventy-tive vessels, large and small,
were driven ashore at Bona Vista and some
of them were smashed. Large numbers of
traps were lost. All but four of the stages
were swept away. At Cupids the
loss and damage are very serious, and
some persons consider themselves ruined. The
schooners Annie Thornton, Triton, Goodwill,
Susie A, and Susan, with their outfits be-
came total wrecks. The schooners Caleb,
Corkum, Mary Calkin, Jane, and others in
the neighborhood went ashore and are more
or less DAMAGED. The SclOOnprS EXDprt and
Margaret Ann were totally lost at Chaudel
Cove.
The schooner First Fruit, bound from
st. Johns for ~Twillingate with a cargo of
provisions, was lost at Catalina. Her cargo,
considerably damaged, was recovered. The
schooner Blanche became a total wreck at
Farewell, near Dilds. The schooner Wild
Rover was lost at White Point Straits. She
was bound from st. Johns for Twillingate.
The brigantine Emma, drove from
her moorings in Spaniard's Bay and
went ashore at Bears Cove, on the back side
of Bay Roberts. where she now lies with her
bottom out. The captains son and another
man who were on board, were rescued by a
boats crew from Bears Cove. The Emma
was loaded with provisions for Labrador,
which have been nearly all landed in q dam
aged condition. -Four fishing schooners at
Holyrood, two at Chapels Cove and two at
Harbor Main became total wrecks. Six of
them were fitted out for the summer fishing
and were prepared to start Immediately.
The storm is considered to be the worst that
has visited Newfoundland in forty years. The
fact that most of the vessels lost were loaded
with supplies for the fisheries is probably the
worst feature of the disasters. 1t is rumored
that three bait skiffs. each with six men on
board, left Holyrood and have not since been
heard of. A bait skiff, bottom up, floated
into Topsail and it is supposed that she is one
of the three referred to.