The Portland daily press., 1898-11-28

Apprehensive of trouble and disaster,
toe tug boats Knlckerbocker, q. A. War.
rem and the Belknap went sculling around
the harhor yesterday morning and when
lney reached the fleet anchored off Gorges
they found it was u veritable center Of
ths disasters of the night before, for il
was discovered that the two masted
schooner Carrie G. Miles of Rockland
was totally dismasted and the British
schooner Rondo. had her foremast broken
OH and her other mast was hanging by q
slender rope, SO to speak, and her head
gear had been carried away. Another
three masted schooner, the Silver spray
| Of Addison, Me-. lost her bowsprlt and
( her jibboom was conspicuous by its alb
sence, while another two masted schooner
whose name could not be learned, seemed
| to have suffered considerably ana had her
| foremost swept away.
| The tugs kept UP their good work
! standing ready to lend all the assistance
| they could but under great disadvantages,
because the wind continued to blow per-
feet gale, and the sea was SO rough and
run SO high as to make i5 almost i'm
possible for them in safety to reach the
storm ridden vessels.
Early in the forenoon the schooner
Lillian, which was anchored just off
Portland Pier, dragged her anchor and
was carried across the harbor and went
ashore in the cove near the bicycle
factory. No great damage was done her,
as the tug Q. A. Warren went to her as
sistance and towed her to safe anchor.
age. Another schooner loaded with luYn.
Der dragged her anchor and drifted up
near the dry dock, and to make matters
worse quite . number of the scows which
are ordinarily moored to what are called
the dolphins just off the works of the
PORTLAND company, broke loose and went
whlrling about threatening to sink every
schooner in the harbor and finally landed
way up by the dry dock. tearing into the
wharf and creating havoc generally,
escaping with no little damage to them
selves.
The italian bark Africa, bound for
buenos Ayres, loaded with lumber, caused
considerable mischief to the fleet as she
q jagged her anchor and fetched up close
to the bow of the Silver Spray. She went
through the feetlike an Infatuated animal
ana set good many of them agoing in
the general mix-up. The schooner
Neptune of Machias. was another vessel
which was sent flying about the harbor
only to land near the Ferry slip on the
Cape shore.
The big boats managed to ride the gale
IN safety, but the small boat, which was
lasheu to the house of the G. A. Warren
parted her lashings and was blown over
board and drifting to the beach near the
dry dock was picked up all right
About the last schooner to arrive in this
port before the big storm broke IN all its
fury, was the Alicia B. Crosby, but her
companion vessel, the four masted
schooner King Phillip, on her way here
loaded with coal, was driven OF by the
shore wind and failed to make the harbor
Another arrival was the English steam
er. Kildona, of the Thomson line, from
Leith, Scotland, which dropped anchor just
off bug light and did not attempt to
reach her pier on account of the thick
weather
& Inquiry was made at the Boston boats
office in regard to the steamer Portland
which was reported to have left Boston
on her usual Saturday night trip but no
definite information was obtainable. 1t
wassstated, however. by one of the officers
of the Bay State that If the boat really
started that she had taken refuge from
the storm, probably off Deer Island or
was lay ing off Gloucester. No anxiety
was felt by him as to her safety, but an
opinion was expressed that the Kennebec
which was supposed 80 leave Boston for
the eastern part of thisstate, might have
a pretty hard time of it If the captain
tried to keep ahead Of the heavy northeast
gale.
The ferry boat Elizabeth City, managed
to make her trips during the day, but
with considerable labor. the sea was SO
rough that when she rolled her guards
went under the water, but she rode the
gaIs with safety and though tossed and
banged about at the slips landed ner pas
sengers without accident, affording the
only means of public communication for
the people on the Cape shore with the
city.
A lobster smack fast to one of the cars
belonging to G. N. Trefethen on Com
mercial wharf was driven by the heavy
sea against the cars and completely
smashed one of them letting out large
number of HOLSTERS, and on the same
wharf gust of wind struck a pile of
boxes, five or six feet long and two feet
wide, used for packing fish, and lifted