The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-14
THE RECENT STORM.
All Incoming Vessels Report Very
Severe Weather.

There We're Some Seasiclx Passengers on
the Steamer New Observation-Disclosures
ence of the Lucy j. Warren.
All the incoming vessels report very
severe weather in the great storm of
Monday night and Tuesday forenoon.
So far no losses of Portland vessels have
been reported, however,
The schooner Lucy j. Warren, Captain
Orlando Wallace, came in late yesterday
afternoon, and reported a very hard
time. Her woodwork and lower rigging
were mass of ice. The captain report
ed that he left Small Point, Thursday,
and fished around Matinicus Rock. The
storm struck them south of Monhegan
about o'clock Monday evening. 1t was
very severe from the first. After having
torn the foresail and ripped the jlb to
pieces SO that it hung in tatters from the
bowsprit, the schooner was anchored,
eight miles west of Seguin, and there
rode out the gale. As soon as it cleared
she proceeded to Portland.
The International steamship New
Brunswick arrived at about quarter-past
2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She left
Eastport at l30 p. M, Monday, the
weather then being fair and delightful.
The New Brunswick first ran into the
storm when she had gotten along to Mt.
Desert rock From there on it was ire
mendous. The seas were very heavy,
and the passengers were miserably sick.
The boat arrived off Cape Elizabeth
about 5 a. m. yesterday morning. but it
was too thick to think of entering the
harbor So the steamer was headed
back towards Monhegan, for the purpose
of lying off until the harbor could be
entered.
The schooner Nathan Cleaves, of this
port, went out before the storm, but she
was reported yesterday as all right at
Richmond's Island.
The Amy Wixon, commanded by
Frank johnson of Harpswell, went out
just before the storm.
The storm did not extend far back
from the coast. No Grand Trunk trains
were delayed beyond Danville Junction.
The bark Matthew Baird and schooner
Grace Davis, lying on the west side of
the Marine Railway, broke away and
Baird's jibboom In getting apart the
Baird fouled the Grace Webster's stern
and inflicted some slight damage.
The Elizabeth City and Mary W.
Libby were crossing the ferry yesterday
morning. The Libby happened to be
crossing the Elizabeth City's bows and
the latter gave two sharp whistles of
warning. The Mary Libby, it is re-
ported, did not heed the warning and
the two vessels struck, but the only
damage was the carrying away of part of
the rail of the Libby. The passengers
were somewhat frightened
Steamer New Brunswick arrived yes
terday afternoon, having been out in the
storm. She was badly iced up, but was
not damaged in any way.
The horse cars ran on their regular
trips in town, the plows having been
kept running all night Monday. The
Deering electrics were able to make
their schedule time, but the Westbooks
were troubled for time in the morning.
The telephone wires worked very well.
At the Cape Captain Trundy reported
from the Life Saving station that not
sail had been in sight since Monday after
noon.
The morning trains on the railroads
were somewhat delayed. The morning
train from Augusta was an hour late
from Bartlett forty minutes, the Boston
trains an hour and a half and the Grand
Trunk one hour. The Rochester was a
good deal delayed but it was because the
trains waited for Boston connections.