The herald., 1896-02-10
WILD and W|NTRY WEATHER
Raging All Along the North
Atlantic Coast
REPORTS OF FATAL WRECKS
Vessels Stove to Fragments and the
Crews Drowned
The Storm Ashore Brings Death to a Man
and His Girl Companion.
Snow in the East

Associated Press special wire.
HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. GA terrible
southeast gale is raging here tonight.
STEAMERS ARRIVAL
New YORK, Feb. lO.-Tne French liner
La Gascogne from Havre arrived off quar-
rantine at about 10 o'clock last night,
dropping anchor we'll over toward the Long
Island shore. The health officers little
tug boat made an attempt to reach her,
but had to turn back on account Of the
heavy sea running i'll the upper bay. The
wind has been blowing half gale for
many hours and the bay is whitecapp ed
from share to shore.
SCHOONER WRECKED
AMEsBURY, Mass, Feb. GA schooner,
the Florida, coal laden for an eastern port,
sank off Salisbury beach tonight. The
Plum island life saving crew attempted to
reach the vessel with aline for the breeches
buoy, but failed. Seven men were seen in
the rigging when she came ashore. Much
wreckage has come ashore, among which
was the signature of Florida. A heavy
wind ia blowing.
The Florida went to pieces at 10 o'clock
tonight when the masts gave way, letting
the seven occupants into the sea. Two of
the bodies were washed ashore. One is
that of mulatto. The life saving crew
could do nothing, as no boat could stand
the sea.
The vessel hailed from Belfast, Maine.
She struck the sand bed near where the
schooner Jennie Macarthur was wrecked q
year ago, a treacherous spot. Big bonfires
we're built on the beach and attempts made
by fishermen to reach the fated schooner.
Bombs with lines attached were thrown by
the life-saving crew. but were not caught
by the men on the Florida, who were in a
L.
on the mizzen mast, one on the main mast
and the other on the bowsprit. During the
evening tie matches and portions of the
boat came ashore. A portion OF the life
saving crew will patrol the beach on the
lookout for more bodies. Several hundred
people saw the wreck go to pieces.
The ships papers have been washed
ashore and the names of the owners and
crew found as follows:
Owners-Charles II. Ryan. Joseph P.
Stinson, Ed. Mayhem, Henry Miller, all OF
New York.
Crew, all drowned: Arthur Brown, cap
tain; A. r. Mccullough, Albert Williams
Gus Smith. John Il. johnson, Walter Bell
William Wills.
| The last is the one washed ashore
There was another man whoee name il
/ unknown.
| --4. STOVE TO .RAGMENTS
''1 GLOUCESTER, Mass, Feb. 9.-The three
masted schooner which left New York las,
Sunday went ashore on Plum island to-
night and was stove to fragments. Four OF
the crew were saved and three drowned.
The schooner had four hundred tons of
coal for ST. Johns, N. B., and was COM
manded by Captain Hellon. She reached
Edgartown, where she rode out Friday, and
made Cape Cod this afternoon, The cap
tain kept off shore in the teeth of streak
ing southwest gale, but a he soon heard the
whstling buoy and signaled Plum island
lights. Before they realized it the schooner
struck and was driven up against the beach
throbgh the breakers. She struck head on,
the spars came out and she went to pieces.
The drowned are:
Captain Mellon, St. Johns, n. B., 80
years old; unmarried.
John Reid, Calais, Me-, aged %.
Andrew -, cook, Spring Hill, N. c.,
40 years old.
GREW SAVED
HAMPTON, N. H., Feb. 9.-The sch ooner
Stella, coal laden, went ashore below Erie
beach tonight during the gale, and is n
total loss. The crew of seven were saved.