The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-02

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| Up at the Grand Trunk sheds there was
another lively time during the heighth OF
the gale. The schooner St. Thomas,
which is lying alongside Pier No. was
exposed to the full fury of the heavy sea.
She smashed and pounded up against the
big timbers and planks were splintered
and broken. Big logs of wood used as
tenders were chewed up into pulp wood.
Sails lowered over the side of the vessel
to serve as tenders were torn and cut all
to pieces.
Up by the Portland Company's docks
laid the big mud digger which is known
as Dredge No. 8. During the night the
sea became too much for her and finally
she parted her hawsers and drlfted down
towards the St. Thomas. The captain of
the St. Thomas and the few men on
board of her were having all they could
do to keep the schooner from tearing the
wharf to pieces or sinking herself, when
the big dredge crashed down into her
side. This smashed the schooner up
against the wharf with a fearful impact
and it was wonder that the big four
master did not crush up like an egg shell.
The collision with the dredge tore the
thanking off the schooner for % or 30 feet,
her main and mizzen rigging was SNAPPED
off, her rail carried away and altogether
she looked as If she had been through a
hurricane and had narrow escape. The
dredge was also seriously damaged, her
smoke stack being knocked off, the roof
of ner pilot house ripped up, her whistle
gone and big planks along her deck
splintered and broken. The dredge and
the schooner were finally separated, but
not until they had been crashed together
few more times, and each collision
threatened to send either one of them to
the bottom. All this time the ST. Thomas
was banging up against the wharf and
when the sea went down at last the pier
had been damaged SO much that it will
take $500 or more to repair it, while the
schooner will also require as much more
to put her into good condition again.
The schooner John F. Randall laid at
the Grand Trunk coal shed, and by her
side was one of William Dugan's coal
hosting scows. This scow had hole
punched in her side in a collision With
the schooner, turned bottom upwards and
laid alongside the schooner pounding
away until the middle of the forenoon,
when Captain Nat Haskell, came along
in the G. A. Diokey, drove couple OF
dogs into the bottom of the overturned
scow and hauled her to the Portland COM
pany's docks. Another hosting scow ly-
ing near the one which was capsized was
not generally damaged. The schooner
Randall was practically uninjured by the
heavy sea as she was sheltered from the
worst of it.
The big English steamers, of which
there] were five in the port, swayed and
pulled at their hawsers and pitched and
| rolled in the heavy sea in way to make
peoples eyes pop out of their heads at
such an unusual sight in this harbor, but
| none of these big ships were injured.
Down at the dock between the old
elevator and the New York boat landing
on Franklin wharf there was still another
lively time in the early morning hours.
The schooner Willie r., used as a pilot
boat, broke away from the moorings on
| the Elevator wharf and drifted down the
dock. The New York steamer Manhattan
| was lying at her usual berth when the
pilot boat crashed into her. Having
pounded against the Manhattan for a
time the little schooner went across the
dock and crashed into the stem of the
schooner Sadie and Lille, carrying away
her boat and davitts and smashing her
quarter rail The Manhattan was not in
iured. The mate of this steamer finally
got on board the Willie T., and secured
her to the wharf, putting an end to her
mad career.
The two big scows of the dredger which
were anchored in the harbor of the Grand
Trunk docks broke away during the
night and went whirling about up the
harbor. One of them brought up in the
anchor ice off the ferry slip on the Cape
shore and the other went farther up the
narbor and landed on tho Cape shore just
below the plush mill wharf. The coal
scow owned by the Dredging company al
| so broke adrift from Randall & McAllis-
| ter's wharf and turning bottom upwards
drifted up the harbor. This scow was
held up by the anchor ice just off the
plush mill wharf
The coal barge Girard which was lying
at Sargent and Dennison' IS pounded about
against the wharf SO badly that she was
lowed out into the stream early Monday
evening where she laid all day yesterday
in the field of anchor ice.
The morning came at last, but it was a
wild scene in the harbor which the dull
and gloomy winters light brought to
view. Excepting narrow strip along the
Portland side the whole harbor was filled
with anchor ice and snow. The schooner
James Young which had been anchored
Monday night off the end of the break
water dragged her anchor and drifted
down towards the Cape shore until she
was lying almost in the course Of the
South Portland ferry boat The tug
Knickerbocker went to her assistance
early in the forenoon and tried to pull the
| Tap,as Youno out into the stream The