The Portland daily press., 1894-04-17
AFTER THE STORM.
Stories of Disaster and Peril Re-
ported.
Big Wave Demaged the Manhattan
Two schooners That Drifted for Weeh
Before the Gtorm-The Fish Situation.

The harbor was quiet and beautiful yes
| terday. There were a few arrivals of fish
! but not many and there were still some
reminders of last weeks terrible storm
The truck of the Marine railway ran
off the track, in the morning when half
way up, with the tug Belknap and the
schooner Lila B. Fernald, in the cradle.
| This was caused by sand and dirt that was
washed on to the track by the big waves
| of last week.
| Five Hundred Dollar Wave.
| The Manhattan arrived early yesterday
morning after the worst experience with
| wind and waves forsasdoZen years at least
AS stated in the PRESS yesterday she
left New ork Wednesday, and had only
reached Chatham, Saturday when she had
| to put back to Bass river. She received a
staggering blow from old ocean. When off
| Chatham big wave came aboard. 1t
truck the port bow, knocked off 20 feet
of the heavy gunwale, swept along the
hurricane deck, lifted the life-boats from
their lashings, smashed the glass in the
pilot house and left several hogsheads of
water there, hurled its whole weight against
| the front of the steamer on the lower deck,
| smashed the glass, ripped off the sheathing,
|
doors, swept through the passageway, and
| filed the main saloon half full of water.
Consequently painters and carpenters
| were at work yesterday, and the saloon car
| pet was drying on the hurricane deck.
| The cost is said to be at least $500 as the
result of that one wave. i. The Manhattan
sailed again last night, in order to make up
lost time and the freight was hurried a.
/ hoard in a. very 1iye1v manner
| The Portland sailed for Boston Sunday
| night for the first time since last Tuesday
| and the fremont came down from Boston
| for the first time also since the storm. She
| sailed again yesterday just as soon as the
| delayed freight could be hurried aboard.
A New Parkway Buoy.
/ The government steamer Lilac was off
| Bug light yesterday replacing the Far
away channel bouy 1t had been run over
and smashed by some schooner during the
storm Of last week. Of course in such a
case the schooner is not responsible, and
should Immediately report, SO that the
buoy can be replaced as quickly as possible,
but they don't always do it for fear of suf
fering damages.
Drifted Nearly 200 Miles,
| Saturday and Sunday two fishing schoon-
| ers came in from Browns Banks. Both ex-
| perienced all the fury of the storm and
they had similar experiences. The James
Dyer of Portland, Captain Williamson, was
| struck by the storm a week ago Sunday.
| She parted her cable and went adrift under
a close-reefed foresail, and she drifted in
the terrible waves for whole week. One
of the men said that he has fished on the
banks for thirteen years and he never ex-
| f1r@
From Sunday till the next Friday they drift
ted, struggling with the waves that inces-
sanity threatened to destroy them and with
| the hurricane that never ceased its vlo-
lence. IF she hadn't been good boat l
| wouldn't be here now,' said the fisherman,
81 was glad to see land, I can tell yer.
I've seen good many stiff breezes on the
banks but that one took the cake"
| They drifted about $50 miles and Friday
| found themselves about rs miles from Mon
hegan By that time they were able to put
| on sail and reach here the next day. Their
| curry bit was washed overheard.
| The schooner Reporter of Gloucester,
| Captain McConley, arrived Sunday. She
also drifted for the entire week in the same
direction for distance of about $50 miles,
1t was very nasty weather, the captain
IL,
eral holes in the bulwarks. The James
| Dyer was accompanied during her long and
anxious drifting journey by another schoon-
er about half a milesdistant. But SO thick
was the rain and hail and snow that they
could only see her occasionally yet she
| looked something like the Reporter"
| Probably the two vessels made that extraor-
| dinary trip together.
Fish Arrivals.
The Reporter brought 1900 pounds of
haddock to John Willard. They were ship
| ped Immediately to New York.
| The James Dyer brought about 800 pounds
| of fish. Business had picked up little at
| the fish wharves yesterday, but not much.
| A few small boats came in with few
| thousand pounds of fresh fish. Now that
| the storm is over the customers of the fish
dealers, throughout the state have been tel
| egraphing their demands to have their big
| DELAYED orders filed. But the fish don't
| flow into Portland just the minute a
| storm ceases. 1t take time to catch them
| and time to ship them.
| The supply of fresh fish just out of the
water has been so curtailed, in fact $50 en-
| tirely stopped for week, that yesterday
! the small boat fishermen were getting just
| twice as much for their fish as they did
| before the storm.
The Numidian Today.
| The steamer Numidian, of the Allan line,
| left Halifax yesterday morning. She will