, 1888-11-28
The Storm.

MONTREAL, NOV. - OF the
most severe storms of. snow and wind
known here for years broke oyer this pro-
vince and Ontario Sunday evening and
still continues. The wind at times blew
as hard as seventy miles per hour. The
streets and surrounding country are co =
cred with snow drifts ten feet deep in
places and the most severe cold prevails.
The horse car lines here have stopped
running.
Forty four people were picked up in the
streets by the police Sunday night unable
to make their way through the storm,
being rather benumbed by cold or bewil-
dered by the winds.
The storm was felt more severely on
the Lower st. Lawrence than anywhere
else. The steamer Pomerain bound for
Liverpool, which vas grounded at Sorel.
made an attempt to reach Quebec Sunday
with the aid of four tugs. She got as
far as Batiscan, and anchored for the
night, Yesterday not only steamships,
but tugs too, were frozen in solid. The
POme rain will not get through this sea-
son. She will probably be forced ashore
on the rocks and become a total loss. The
Allan Steamship company, which owns
her, will lose over $500, 900.
At Quebec a gale is raging furiously
and the iron ferry boats that ply between
that point and Point Lewis are caught IN
the Ice. which threatens to crush them.
The steamship Polyno, bound from
Cape Breton to Quebec. was seen strug-
Cling against the gale and ice in the gulf
off Fame Point, 800 miles below Quebec,
at daylight. She suddenly disappeared
and has not been seen or reported since.
There are fears hat she has been lost.
She had forty passengers and a crew of
thirty and a general cargot
CoHAssET. Mass. Nov. 27.-It is re-
ported that the Philadelphia collier Al
seems to be little doubt but that the
steamer sunk on some OF the lodges di-
rectly outside this port. A number of
people at this village heard a steamers
whistle last night. An immense amount
OF wreckage has come ashore at Sandy
grove and Sandy beach, the marks upon
which indicate co~nclusively that the
wrecked vessel must have been the Allen
town. The Allentown was an iron boat
of ,2S9 tons burthen. She was built
and owned in Philadelphia. She carried
a crew of eighteen men and was comman
ded by Capt. Odiorne.
Capt. Nathanial w. Treat, one of Co.
hassett's oldest seatarlng men, and from
whom the first intimation of the disaster
came. said it wa his opinion hat the
vessel had foundered either on the sea
lodges or on a grampus. which are long
sunken lodges lying about three miles
from the nearest point of the main land.
Ii such is the case the vessel must have
gone down with all on board within a very
few minutes after striking. Since the
early reports of the supposed catastrophe
many villagers have been seen and they
say they distinctly heard the steamers
whistle shortly after noon on Sunday re-
peated at brief intervals for an hour or
more as if signalling for assistance or a
pilot. 1t was so thick at the time that
nothing could be seen so great a distance
from shore, and even if any observation
could have been made no boat could live
in the tremendous sea then prevailing.
The schooner Lasanoa, before reported
as stranded on Pleasant beach, has gone
to pieces. Her deck was lifted clear off
the vessel and piled in a confused mass on
the beach beside the hull of another
schooner. The summer cottages and sim
liar structures on the water front are
wrecked and their ruins line the beaches.
Ii hldu9 pCuNIllul ullNCb u lnC uulul
residences are washed away or badly gull
lied and covered with wreckage.
The greatest damage to land property
is at Crescent beach between Green hill
and Gunrock. Along this stretch is a
line OF from twenty to thirty small sum-
mer cottages, averaging in size about
20x30 feet. There is not a single one Of
these that does not bear the marks of the
terrible force of the storm. Some of them
were lifted from their foundations and
carried back several feet. The total loss
to property on this beach will reach many
thousands OF dollars.
At the Hotel Nantasket the covered
promenade connecting it with Rockland
cape was partly destroyed by wind and the
road bed of Nantasket Beach, a branch
of the Old Colony railroad, entirely washed
out from Hotel Standish to a point half a
mile northwest of Ocean house.
The wrecked brig Alice is rapidly break
ing up and is being stripped OF everything
portable.
New YORK, Nov. 27.-The steamers
Hans and Kurt, Arizona and Wyanok,
were the only vessels to reach New York
to-day. All report having been caught in
the hurricane, but as far as known the
first named was the only one that sus-
tanned any damage, and that is about her
decks.