The Portland daily press., 1886-01-11
Loss of the Alice M. Gould.

their work at that hour were obliged to step
into doorways to recover breath and rub
their ears to keep them from freezing. Many
business men were obliged to adopt the same
course on their way down town several
hours later At about noon Saturday the
fury of the gale abated somewhat and the
sun shone for an hour or two. The wind
remained in the northeast however and a
heavy snow storm again set in although the
wind did not blow as hard as before. In the
evening the weather cleared.
The snow was drifted badly in the streets.
The fall was five to seven inches ON level.
The horsecar company kept their track
open and put three and four horses on car,
but runners were generally substituted for
wheels on other vehicles
No serious damage was done in town, but
electric light globes were shattered and con-
siderable other damage of like nature done.
In the harbor the storm was experienced
in its full force. The water was very rough
and it was with the utmost difficulty that
vessels were kept from dragging their an
chors, or breaking their chains.
The steamer Longfellow, Capt. Hopkins.
had started out on her first trip to Machias
port and intermediate landings, and when off
Seguin she encountered the storm and being
unable to proceed turned about and returned
to her wharf here.
Steamer Express started for Peaks Islend
Saturday morning; when near the break
water she shipped heavy sea, the engine
room was filled with water, and the deck
clogged with Gle so badly that planks
had to be knocked off the rail to relieve her.
Finally she gave up the attempt and return
ed to her dock.
Neither of the Cape Elizabeth ferry boats
were able to make their trips till late in the
afternoon.
Schooner Laughing Water dragged her an
ehors and drifted across the chains of schoon-
er Emma. The formers bowsprit was car
ried away, her sails torn and she received
other damage The drifting schooner was
taken in tow by the tug Belknap and carried
to her wharf where she later sank.
Schooner Martha A. McLain was run into
by the schooner Gypsy Queen and lost her
bowsprit.
Schooner Willie Martain dragged a-foul
the Grand Trunk wharyes and chafed badly.
Capt. Frost of Tug Elsie, reports passing a
lot of wreckage off Brewsters Saturday after
noon, and thinks an unknown schooner must
have gone to piet es in that vicinity Friday
night and all hands been drowned.
The Boston boat encountered the storm in
its full force when off Thatcher's Islond, but
she pluckily kept on and reached here at
3.15 o'clock Saturday morning. little over
ten hours from Boston here. The Forest
City of the same line put into Gloucester for
protection from the storm.
At one time Saturday the slip of the Port
land and Cape Elizabeth Ferry Company at
Ferry Village was in danger of drifting off
but was secured by Capt. Willard and crew
of men.
The large three-masted schooner James
Boyce, Capt. A. A. Duncan, from New York
with coal for Randall & McAllister, arrived
at this port at 10 O'Clock Saturday night and
was towed to her wharf yesterday forenoon.
The schooner encountered the storm when
off Boone Island Friday night. Sail was re-
duced and everything went well until Satur-
day. AT noon on that day the wind abated
and shifted to the south, from which quarter
it soon after blew fiercely. The schooner
was somewhere to the south of Boone ISL
and and had hard time in reaching port A
big wave broke over her stern with great
force, tearing away the starboard davit and
smashing the long boat The same wave
broke the cabin doors and flooded the cabins.
The forward house also felt the fury of the
gale. The water flooded the galley, over
turned the stove and spoiled large part of
fbo cfo
the mems clothing, breaking lamps and do
ing other damage. The schooner's head sails
were blown from their fastenings and hung
from the bowsprit in ribbons. The bulwarks
amidships were stove in, the small boat
smashed, and piece of rail at the stern
knocked out When the big wave which
flooded the cabin broke over the stern, four
of the men were knocked down and one of
them was nearly carried overheard The
after pumps were started and the vessel
leaked somewhat, but not enough to cause
alarm A number of articles dashed to one
of the matches were carried away, a ring bolt
to which they were secured being torn from
the deck.
While the schooner was still forty miles
out to sea, white dove sought shelter on
board and was easily caught. Yesterday
the bird still occupied the cabin and was
quite at home, perched on the back of
chair. In coming to anchor Saturday night,
the Boyce being hard to manage on account
of the accident to her head sails, collided
with small coasting schooner, the latter's
jibboem being carried away. One of the
men on the schooner said yesterday: 81 have
been to sea ever since I was boy 10 or II
years old and never knew the sea to run so
high as during this last Storm
The fishing schooner Alice NJ Gould,
Capt. Edward Ennis, owned by E. G. Will
lard, left this port Thursday night ON fish
ing trip. AS a storm was predicted, the
schooner only went about eighteen miles off
Cape Elizabeth, remaining out Friday in the
hope of having good day for work. Friday
night when the weather thickened, an at
tempt was made to reach Portland. Find
ing this to be impossible, the schooner next
tried to find harbor at Richmond's Island
but the heavy wind blew away the jib and at
O'Clock Saturday morning as last resort,
the two anchors were dropped and the
schooner brought to off the shore about half
way between Spurwink river and Black
Point. The crew pluckily stuck to their
vessel, which was Juggling at the anchors
and in danger of breaking loose and going
ashore, until 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Then, fearing to remain on board during the
coming night, the twelve men, composing
the crew, took three of the dories and guided
by the shouts of man named Feeney, who
lives in the vicinity, rowed to the Spurwink
river in safety and landed there. The men
were cared for at Mr. Feeney's house and
say that everything was done to make
them comfortable.
1t was hoped that the schooner would out
live the storm at her anchorage, but during
the night she broke from her moorings and
went ashore. Yesterday morning when
of the crew went to the shore they
saw the schooner dismasted and lying bot
tom up upon the rocks. The stem had been
thrown upon the beach and broken spars
and other wreckage had also been washed
ashore. The crew who belong in Ferry
Village walked into town yesterday.
The Alice M. Gould was of about sixty
tons and was built twenty years ago. She