The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-12-27
Maine Matters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.
THE GOV. ANIEs SAFE IN PORT.

position at anchor the Georges. She has |
Since been lowed into Boston. Some partcu-
lars of her disaster from Capt. Davis are worth |
repeating. He said to Record reporter:
Tuesday at 10 z. NJ, with the wind blowing |
a "young hurricane from the southeast the |
splicing of the standing rigging of the fore |
mast drew out on both sides. The fault was
that the ends of the wires of which the rigging |
was made We're cut too short i'll the splicing. !
The rigging having given way, the mast, which
was 10 feet long and 30 inches thick, had
nothing to support 1t in gale of Wind but It's
own strength. After swaying about for over
an hour, in which time all the lower sails were
taken in, the foremast went by the board,
breaking off close 10 the deck, which lett the
four other masts all loose. In very few
minutes the other ma-t> followed. pulled down
10y the spring>tays, crushing down upon the
deck, and bringing with them perfect net
work OF wire rigging. 80 thick that one could
hardly crawl through it.
Three of the ma>> fell on the deckhouse. the
jiggermast breaking in two over the stern. The
miZzen and >panher ma>t> were saved. so that
by splicing they can be used again. -Four of
The mast> broke short off at the deck; the fifth,
which stood in front of the donkey engine
house. broke, as if by miraculous foresight
above the house. that it did not crush the
engine in falling. If it had the vessel would
have been very difficult TO handle, a> the engine
was very useful IN hauling in the rigging. half
of which was saved The engine was also
useful in pumping. though tic vessel was very
tight.
Another almost miraculous feature of the
wreck that none of the ~ men on board
We're injured by the falling m:l>t> and rigging.
The tug II. +. Morse left Boston Dec. 18th
to 20 to the service of the Schooner and reach
ing her the next day toWed her safely into
Boston, arriving Thursday.
\ THRILLING STORY THAT WASN'T 50.
Three men Were reported as arriving at Rock
land last week on a schooner bringing terrible
pf Ia of .rt\ ar he
men were Capt. GEO. \. smith, Of the British
steamer -tlmira, first mate VIM. Smith and
second mate Alfred Doran. The latter fur
nshed the i1apcr> with heartrending story,
of which the Boston Herald remarked Mr..
poran, the alleged second mate Of the alleged
British steamer Almira. which WAS alleged to
be burned eghty-ilNe miles from Halifax, with
the loss Of the captain Wife, TWO children and
twelve sailors did not consider il necessary to
burden his narrative by ANYTHING in the nature
of a plausible statement. The \mira il seems.
sailed from Birmingham. 4 town in the centre
of England, loaded with redwood winch comes
from Central America, having Tor her COM
mander z Cape Cod SEA captain. and for her
second mate a citizen Of Fan River. To ret up
tragedy on a similar basis. ii might be said
that the American steamer None Nucil. bound
from Worcester, Mass. 10 Rio Janciro, mann
ed by Il Russian crew and carrying cargo of
tea, was wrecked and all on board We're lost by
striking reef Of the port of san EraEc>co.
Doran i reported to have arrived in Boston
the I9th very drunk. He was probably wrecked
Oh a Roekiand bar.
1 later rtuort saws: II j. believed that the
thr,, sailors who were landed at Rocklnnd
were G,~crtor. from the sealing schooner sarah
v. iiut. ana that they concogted their story
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