The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-02-14
A BAD DAY OUTSIDE.
The Vancouver Steamed Out Into a
Thick Storm Yesterday.

A Bit of Bad Luck for the Grand Trunk
Heavy Storms Better for the Railroads
Cargo of the vancouver-The Fishlng
Fleet Outside-Arrival of the j. Nick
ersou.
1t was bad day on the water 1fon1
yesterday and still worse day outslae'
IN addition to I'll 9 thick storm a high
wind and very heavy sea added TO 1ne
general discomfort. The steamer van
couyer Of the Dominion line steamed
out into it all. The Canadian portion or
her cargo is valued at Slo2, 400, and is
composed of s197 bushels of peas, 55S
bags of rice meal, 500 bags OF flour, o.
horses. 2439 wooden doors, 9S6 maple
blocks, so bundles of slaves, 6ob deals,
457 boxes of cheese. 1910 packages OF
handles. 175 crates of pulleys, GO organs,
90 logs, 800 boxes and 30 tierces OF ham
and bacon, 26 kegs of tongues, 26 cases
Of leather, "a cases of machinery, cases
of sundries, 2 cases of cigarettes, 1882
American portion of the cargo is valued
at SIT, 29s and consisted of "a, IL bushels
of corn, so bags Of flour, 500 cases Of can
ned meats, 400 barrels of pork, 80 tierces
of lard, lilo boxes of ham and bacon,
5 tieroes of bacon and 757 barrels Of ap-
pies.
The Grand Trunk mad bit Of hard
luck yesterday, the first during the pre- S.
emit season. Two special freight trains
from Portland were lowing each 9th
er closely, and when he first train was
on the sharp grade at Lisgar, west of
Richmond, Province of Quebec. a por-
ton Of the cars broke away and went
down tho grade colliding with the train
behind. The engine of the second train
and all of the runaway freight cars were
damaged, but no one was reported to
have been injured. The accident detained
the trains in both directions for some
time until wrecking train could reach
the ground.
Altho, gh the open winter has saved
all the railroads the necessity of keeping
open their lines, what they have saved
in that way has been lost and "much
said yesterday, by the cutting down in
local freights. 1t would be much better
for them to pay men to do shoyelling
than to loose great mass of local bust
ness.
The schooner J. Niokerson arrived
v Qcta Co Cbn int
Salem with a cargo Of coal, and had dis
charged cargo before the sudden storm
of last week. At that time she was haul
ing and the lire parted. The schooner
was carried across the harbor, and was
sent high and dry on the fats. She will
be examined, and if necessary will be
overhauled here. She is commanded by
Captain Littlejohn of South Portland.
The fishing fleet is still outside, and
likely to bring in few fish when they re-
turn rs there must have been but very
little fishing weather of late. 1t was
rather thought that one or two OF the
fleet might run in yesterday. but they
tailed TO appear.
Both the Manhattan and St. Croix
arrived yesterday, and the ST. Croix left
cided TO hold all boats in port until the
weather should look more favorable.
Marine Notes.
Chief Engineer Hohson. of the Grand
Trunk, was in the city Wednesday. He
said that it has been decided to extend
Grand Trunk piers Four, Five and Six
90 feet further into the harbor, which
will bring them out to the commissioners
line. This is TO accommodate the in
creased size of the steamers that are now
coming here. But even with this ad-
dition the piers will not be long enough
for the new Dominion liner, the Canada,
which will be 500 feet long, and will
overlap the longest pier by Is feet. The
work Of extension is to be done next
summer.
General Manager Hays, accompanied
by a number of Grand Trunk Railroad
dignitaries, will come to Portland in the
course of week or ten days and make
thorough inspection of the railroad prop
erty here.