Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-03
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considerable Damage Done-Reports
from Different Quarters.

CoHAssEr, Mass, Nov. 2,
Considerable damage was done by the
storm In this section today. MANY tree,
FENCES and small buildings were DESTROYED and
some shipping was damaged. No fatalities
have yet been reported.
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Nov. 2.
Severe rains today undermined a culver.
on the Brattleboro & Whitehall railroad.
north of Townsend station. A mixed train
leaving South Londonderry at IL 80 ran into
1t and probably fatally injuring the engineer
and severely bruising others.
PORTLAND, N. H., Nov. 2.
tremendous gale is blowing from the
southeast and is growing heavier The gale
Is the heaviest ever known along the coast.
DOVER, N. H., Nov. 2.
Inc severest gale in many years prevailed
mere today Many trees were blown down
and chimneys prostrated in all directions.
telegraph and telephone suffered severely.
II rained continuously from 6 A. NJ. to l2 As
P. NJ.
CHESTER, VT. Nov. 2.
-Four inches of snow had fallen this MORN
ing. 1t grew warmer, turning to rain, which
fell in torrents in the day, raising the streams
and doing considerable damage to roads and
bridges.
PRovINCErowN, Mass, Nov. l,
The heaviest southeast gale known here
tor eight years, set in at this harbor this
morning, the wind reaching a velocity of As
miles an hour. A feet of about l5e sail of
coasters and fishermen, with fishing steamer
Novelty and U. S. cutter Gallatin, were at
anchor in the harbor and several collisions
occurred. Fishing schooner Elsie NJ. Smit...
OF Portland, dragged anchor, fouling fishing
schooner Polar Wave of Gloucester, CARRYING
away both masts and the bowsprit of the Po-
lar Wave Schooner w. F. Miller of Bos-
ton, dragged anchor and went ashore near
Cooks wharf. She will probably float the
next tide all right. British schooner Volante
and schooner Balloon of Winterport dragged
ashore on the flats, but will float at next tide.
Schooner Longwood fOuled schooner Emma
Higgins at the railroad dock, carryi ing away
the LOngwood's boom. Fishing schooner
Willie Erdix of Provincetown, collided with
schooner Charles Foster, carrying away the
Erdix's foremast and bowsprt. Schooner
Oceanus lost her anchor. Several yachts
and fishing boats were either sunk or dashed
to pieces on the beach. Cutter Gallatin was
anchored near the fleet with steam up ready
for instant service.
BOsTON, Nov. 2.
A New London despatch states that the
dredging machine Atlantic No. 4, while being
towed to New York last night parted her haw-
ser in the gale, and it is feared that all on
board are lost The crew consisted of two
men, in charge of Capt. Kent.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Nov. 2.
Schooner Adeliza. Capt. Frisbee, with coal,
from HobOken for Bangor, collided SATURDAY.
night with an unknown schooner near w stch-
hill. The starboard quarter of the Adeliza
was stove in, and msinsail and mainboom
carried away. She was beached on Fishers
Island, but the high wind and sea have dashed
her to pieces.
NEwBURYPoRT, Mass, Nov. 2.
The gale this noon was the most severe for
many years. The wind blew As miles an
hour. Trees and chimneys in many instances
were blown down. Tall church spires were
swayed to and fro, slightly damaging some of
them, and buildings were unroofed. Several
vessels in the harbor dragged their anchors,
and yachts went adrift, receiving more or
less damage. While the damage is not great
in any one case, in the aggregate it will be
considerable.
NEWPORT, r. l., Nov. 2.
The storm here to-day has been exception
ally severe. 1t began soon after midnight,
rain descending in torrents, and the wind
blowing a gale and Occasionsfy a perfect hur-
ricane. The swell outside is something tre-
mendous, and prevents steamers leaving the
harbor. Considerable damage was done to
shipping and to residences and other prop
erty.
BosroN, Nov. 2.
The storm of today has been the severest
of any that can be remembered in this harbor
and along the shore. At o'clock this morn.
ing the wind had increased to almost a hur-
ricane, and throughout the forenoon the gale
lashed the waters of the harbor into u mass
of foamng billows. Vessels lying at the
all that could were worked into the docks
At Lewis's wharf, the large ship Magellan
parted one of her chains, and moved twenty
feet, being stopped with hswsers when within
ten feet of the pier. Schooner Carrie Easier
parted lines and was carried by the wind into
an adjoining pier, carrying away her own da
Wits, crushing her boats at the same time,
breaking the spanKerbo0m OF bark Addie
Carver and finally jamming between bark E.
L. Maberry and the slip of the south ferry.
Here she lay pitching and rolling and badly
chafing the sides of the Maberry. Tug Elsie
finally got a line to her and towed her clear,
but when well ont in the stream her hawser
parted and she came again down on the
docks. She entered the south ferry slip, and,
striking the piles, carried away her jibboon
aud head gear. A second attempt was made
to tow her clear and she was finally anchored
in mid stream, a complete wreck
Early in the morning an unknown British
schooner, anchored on the fats, got adrift,
collided with another vessel and carried away
her main boom. At ii o'clock, tug Storm
King arrived up from below with bark r. A.
Allen in tow. The captain reported tre-
mendous sea below. How heavy the sea was
may be judged from the fact that the pilot
would not allow man to run the risk of re-
gaining the pilot boat. and the tug brought
both the man and boat to this city. This
happening in the upper harbor is an extraor-
dinary incident and shows the tremendous
force of the gale.
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