The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-28
Wrecks and IncIdents.

Schooner Maud S.. Capt Osborne, owned
at Harrington, Me-, bound from Millbridge
to Portland, ran ashore at Owls Head, ,Rock-
land, Sunday night She came off badly
damaged.
An unknown schooner is ashore on Mas
keag Point. She is owned at Brookline, Me-,
and will be a total loss.
An unknown three-masted schooner is
ashore on Ash Island.
Schooner Susan b. Thurlow, Capt. Tabbutt
of New York, from Philadelphia, from Port
land. Me-, with soft coal, parted her chains
off Bass river, Hyannis, at 5 o'clock Sunday
evening. She went ashore on Southwest
ground. off Hyannis, at 7.30, and bilged. The
vessel and cargo will probably be saved.
Schooner Ada G. Shorthand, Of New York,
bound from Portland to ST. John, N. B., an
parted her chains Monday, and went ashore
on the south side of the harbOr, leaking bad
ly. She will probably come off.
Schooner Radiant, bound from Bangor to
Rockport, went on the ledge off Kockport,
Monday. She came off with light damage,
but lost her mainsatl.
The damages caused by the gale at Vine
yard Haven, in addition to those previously
reported, are as follows: Schooner Lottie
b., of and for st. John, N. B., dragged her
anchors at the east side of the harbor, but
ti0ated yesterday morning Schooner VIM. G.
X. Mowry, from HobOken for Calais, with
coal and steel rails, fouled schooner Lavinia
Bell, and had her bowsprit and headgear
carried away. Schooner Galatea, from New
York, of and for st. John, carried away her
bowsprit.
The steamer Allentown, of the Philadel-
phla d Reading line, is reported lost off Co
hasset, and the report is credited at the COM
pany's Boston offices, as the wreckage which
came ashore Enthusiastically came from the
Allentown. She was fine iron ship of 1850
tons, and carried on this voyage her full ca
pacity of coal, consigned to Salem, Mass.
She sailed from Philadelphia Nov. q, and
was due Saturday last. She was $50 feet in
length and 81 feet beam.
During Sunday forenoon the storm had in
creased to hurricane in Gloucester, and
vessels in the outer harbor anchored in the
vicinity of Stage Fort, were in danger of go
ing ON the rocky shore between the Fort and
Norman's woe. Signals of distress we're set
ON many vessels, and fortunate it was for
them that the Portland tug l.. A. Belknap,
Capt. Griffin, was In port to assist them. The
Belknap was on her way from Vineyard
Haven TO Gardner, having in tow the dis
abled ree-masted schooner Andrew J..
York, from Perth Amboy for the latter port,
and ran into the harbor Saturday night for
shelter. But for the valuable service Of the
tug in towing vessels TO safe anchorage,
great destruction and possibly loss Of lite
might have resulted.
Schooner Willie Martin, loaded with lum-
Der, from Bangor, went ashore on Dix ISL
and. yesterday morning. Her cargo will be
discharged and she will probably come off
slightly damaged.
Schooner Golden Eagle went ashore at
Owls Head, Monday afternoon, and is to
tal loss. She was bound from Rockland to
| Gouldsb0rQ, The wreckage sold for S25.
| Nine out of every ten storms that visit the
| Atlantic coast have their origin either In the
| Northwest or Southwest, ana this was the
cause of General Greely's Eiseacres at Wash
| ington being so sadly deficient In their pre-
| dictions of Sundays weather. There were
| two depressions, as storm ce ntres are teehni-
| cally called, reported by the signal service,
| one of considerable activity being OF the
| coast of Florida, while the other, large In
| area, but small in intensity, was located ovei
| the central Mississippi and OHIO valleys
| Ignoring the former, the ofllclal weather
| prophets had eyes evidently only for the lat
| ter, and as it was really m pre- an area OF
normal pressure in the midst OF an unusually
| high barometer, very litti9 was expected
| from it either in the way of wind or precip
| itation.
The British Isles have been swept by 9
| severe storm doing damae'e to shipping
| and buildings.