The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-11
WRECKED BY THE BIG GALE
MANY VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE BY
 THE FIERCE WIND.

The Crews Were Rescued by the Men of
 the Life-savinE stations-The Men at
 Cape Elizabeth Had Hard Time Of 1t
 Throughout tho storm-It is Believed
 That Many Lives Have Been Lost.
 Portland. Me-. Oct. 1o.-Schooner Rosie and Adra of Machias, Captain Robbins, with lumber. went ashore on Trundy's Reef at noon to-day in gale. The life crew went out and took or the captain and crew of four men. put . ting them ashore safely. The schooner will probably prove total wreck. She is IF tons burden, built at Bristol, Me, in 1873.
 Two-masted schooner Laura Cox of Isaacs Harbor, Isaacs Harbor for Port land, with canned goods, went ashore on Broad Cove, Cape Elizabeth, tonight in a heavy gale. The captain and crew escaped to the shore and 1t Is thought the schooner will get off.
 Schooner D. K. Hall, owned by Joseph Hall, Boston, 6S tons, from Province town for Bangor, Captain Sellers, was run into this morning at 4 o'clock oy an unknown schooner off Captain For poise and had bow stove. She came along to Richmond Island and anchored there to-day in a heavy gale. Her an- chors began to drag and the captain and crew took to the boats. They came ashore at Cape Elizabeth, leaving the schooner to her fate. It is not known whether she is still afloat, but the life crew think she has gone ashore. Besides the crew two passengers were on board. They escaped, but had very uncomfortable time.
 At Cape Elizabeth station tonight there are thirteen men belonging to these schooners, all waiting to learn the fate of their vessels in the morning. At the station 1t has been busy day and the men have done sterling service all day.
 New London, Oct. 10.-The big three masted schooner. Clara B. Colcord, Cap tain Colcord, coal laden. ran on Corn field shoal last night or early this morning and settled down on Sandy ridge, where she now lies filled with water. She was bound from Philadel- phia for Bangor. Me-, having cleared from the former port October 6. Her crew has been taken aboard the Corn field reef lightship. Assistance to float the Colcord has been asked from Cap tain Scott. No effort was made tp reach the schooner this afternoon, as the wind was blowing gale. Scott will go out tonight, when the wind subsidies. MT. Scott expects he can save the Colcord unless the wind tonight does more danl- age. v, .-e-4 7.s~'-- ,--.,,'' e .}@
 Tug Nottingham, the 1Arsss sadoaA, New York for Boston, had to put in here tonight to escape the storm. Schooner N. F. Dixon dragged into dangerous proximity to the railroad bridge and had to be lowed into the stream At Block Island the wind reach ed a velocity of seventy-two miles an hour. An inch and three-quarters of rain fell here.
 Pilot Charles c. Aitkens' body was found in the river this evening. He was a branch pilot from the association, "A State street, New York. His body had evidently been in the water several weeks, as 1t was badly decomposed, only being identified by papers found in his pockets.
 Providence, Oct 10.-Schooner L. 0. Foster, Captain Saunders, from this city for Block Island, with a general cargo of merchandise, struck the west breakwater at the island at o'clock this morning and went to pieces during a terrible easterly storm, the wind blowing at the rate of eighty-four miles an hour. The beach Is strewn with the wreckage. The crew was saved.
 Steamer Majella of Newjort, with stone for the new breakwater, left the west side of the island for harbor, headed for Newport at 1 o'clock The captain was James H. Cook, ana there was a crew of five men. All indications are that she has foundered, and all on board lost. The steamer is owned by MT. W. c. Caswell contractor of Narragansett Pier.
 The life savers at Captain Churcfs station, Narragansett Pier, this morning saved the lives of five down-east sail- ors from the small coasting schooner Leonessa, which halls from Ilesboro, Me-, bound from New York for Bangor, and also five others from two of Hugh Brothers and Bangs stone barges en- gagged on the Point Judith breakwater. The schooner and her cargo of coal are a complete wreck, and the barges from the harbor of refuge fleet are pounding