Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-30
MARINE NEWS.
Some Rough Experices in Portlani 4 Har.
DORA Schooner Wrecked and Three
Oh the Crew Dead-A Schooner
Ashore With Dead Captain
on BOard-Other News.
PORTLAND, Jan, %.

PORTLAND, Jan. 29.
The steamer Mary W. Libby, plying be-
tween Ferry Village and this citv in the ca
pacity of ferry boat, was probably more ex-
posed to the rough weather in the harbor yes
terday than any of the smaller boats. A man
at the Old Slip described her trial Eyes, it
was quite hard day for the steamer and her
crew. said he. 'She had her luck on one
trip in the forenoon. 1t was ebb tide at the
time and the gale blew furiously. She had
nearly reached the landing on the other shore
when blast struck her and run her nearly
on 10 the breakwater, and it was some time
before they managed to make the wharf. The
storm ragged and everybody wanted to get
nome without delay, so the captain finally
concluded to start across. They were only
half way across when it was noticed that the
drifting ice was making in fast around the
vessel Soon it was impossible to move
either way, and there she lay out in the storm
for an hour and half with small field of
broken ice on all sides"
Up to this hour no tidings of vessels out in
the storm have been received.
BosToN, Jan. 20.
dispatch from st. John, N B., says: A
telephone mes sage from St. Martins, thirty
miles from here, Thursday morning, states
that the American three-masted schooner, Ar
acana, Capt. Holmes, from Portland, Me,
for Bear river, n. s., to load lumber for the
West Indies, went ashore on Quaco Reef at ,
o'clock. Wednesday p. NJ, and became a
total wreck. Four of the crew reached land,
but three died from the cold and exposure
The survivors are in bad condition, and it
is feared connot live. Wednesday was a ter
ribe day in the Bay of Fundy. 1t showed
all day, and blew perfect gale. The ther-
below zero. The point at which the wreck
occurred is the most exposed and dangerous
in the bay. and the suf-rings of the ship
wrecked mariners must have been intense
PORTLAND, Jan. 30.
tragic story of the storm of Wednesday
is reported. An unknown schooner is ashore
near Two Lights. She is pounding against
the rocks and is picture of helplessness and
distress. Her captain is frozen to death
The crew are badly frozen. They have not
sufficiently recovered to be able to tell their
thrilling story 1t is evident that they were
disabled by the extreme cold and so lost control
of the schooner, and she was sacrificed TO the
breakers.
The schooner Helen f. King of Calais, ex-
perienced the first three hours of the storm
off shore. The crew suffered extremely.
Capt. Kinds was frost-bitten.
The Dominion steamer Oregon, from Liv-
erpool, arrived in Portland at l.30 ?. NJ.
Thursday. The officers report a terribly
rough passage all the way across and a hard
day Wednesday. She brought thirty pas
sengers and full cargo.
Schooner Australia, 60 tons, Capt. Clark
of and from Boothbay to Boston, with a
cargo of fish, was struck by the blizzard
Wednesday, and went ashore and was lost off
Cape Elizabeth. The captain was washed
overheard and drowned. The crew, one man
and boy, took to the rigging, from which they
were rescued by the keeper of the Two Lights
and neighbors. The survivors were terribly
frozen but it is hoped to save them.