The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-03
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FL0ATED OUT TO DEATH
SIXTEEN TRINITY BAY MEN CARRIED
OUT TO SEA ON AN ICE FLOe

Loss of Life Along the New England
coast Estimated at Score
damage to Property In Boston
Two MilliOns-Aftermnth of the
Big Blizzard.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 2.-sixteen
men men belonging to Trinity Bay were
T uIIyeh on on the ice yesterday while
sedi hunting. 1t is feared they have
perlshed. The boats that were out
seeking them today returned at night
Ian Ia without having got sight of Their.
Inc steamer Vanguard went in search
also, put the day has been so hazv
! IL mas been impossible to do much
The British brigantine LADY Rertba
capt. Patey, from Alicante, drove
ashore last night at Renews hal.bor-
| ioIty miles south of here. She was inn
peuoed In an ice foe and became a
total wreck. Her seven men, it is fear
| ed, are lost. although they NAV bs
drifting about in a boat amid the ice
A barkentine supposed TO be the
Aureola. Capt. Wakeman from ST.
| John's, for Pernambuca, fish laden. was
driven ashore by foe eight miles
south: Her crew is probably safe.
Nothing is known here today regard
ing the steamer that was flying distress
signals in the ice yesterday. The steam-
| er Glover started to seek her this morn
| ing.
BOSTON. Mass. Feb. "A score Of
| persons We're drowned and two millions
loss inflicted by the storm that swenf
over Eastern Massachusetts and Rhods
Island Monday night and Tuesday
| morning.
-Four unidentified bodies are in the
coroners office in Gloucester Five more
| are in Lynn, brought over from Little
whore Cnhnnnn,.
! II. Briggs was wrecked
twelve unidentified corDses are re-
| ported to be at Bakers island. in Salem
harbor They, too, must have manned
| some OF the schooners which were lost
! in Gloucester harbor That there ara
others in the waters of the bay seems
almost certain. Wreckage Is strewn
! up and down the coast from Cape Ann
! to Cape Cod. Thirty schooners We're
wrecked in Massachusetts bay.
On land the loss by storm seems to
have been confined entirely to prop
erty.
Twenty-four hours elapsed before d.
| rect telegraphic communication was re-
stored between Boston and the rest OF
the world. The electric car service in
this city was restored by noon but in
most OF the smaller towns, the trolley
lines are still crippled
The cost of the storm in this city
! Is estimated as follows: Boston Ele-
Vated Railway company, $224.000 City
| of Boston, $4,000; Western Union Tele-
graph company, $20,G0 Postal Tele-
graph company, $4,000; long distance
| Telephone company, $4,000; New Eng
| land Telephone company, 10000; ell
ectric companies. $4,000; fire alarm and
police signal sevice, 5000; fire losses
due to disabled equipment and defec-
tive wires, 100000; steam railroads,
damage to property and loss of income
$4,000; loss to shipping interests about
! $4,000; lost to Boston's business inter-
ests at least 100000. Total, 81 ,42S, ,O0O
With clearing weather the fleet of
! storm bound vessels made preparations
to leave port and several got under way
today.
The pilot boat varuna reached here
! today after an awful experience I'm the
storm, during which Cart William III,
Fairfield was seriously in53l I'd.
The first information from Vineyard
| Haven since the storm was received to-
day 1t says that the violent easterly
gale with velocity of fifty-flve miles
an hour swept over that section Mon
| day night and caused an extremely
high tide. Yesterday morning the gale
| changed to northwesterly blizzard.
| Telegraph and telephone wires were
! Frustrated and considerable damage
done along the water front.
A fleet of vessels lay safely at their
! Inc tug Ice KING, with q
| Wrecking scow and apparatus engaged
in raising the barge Pine Forest. sunk
! in Quick's Hole, was obliged to aband-
on the scow and she was left with two
men on board. The fate of the men is
unknown.
MAGNOLIA, Mass, Feb. -Four of
| the six schooners which were anchored
in Fresh Water Cove on Monday ana
! which were either blown ashore or out
TO sea by the blizzard, have been def
! nitely located, but the fate of the other
two is still unknown. There is enough
wreckage on Delivers Point to account
] for these two vessels, the James
Holmes of Buffalo, and the Marcellus,
Of Bucksport but nothing has been
found that can be said to identify
them. What remains OF the George
w. Jewett lies on the beach at Dol
| livers Point, Gloucester, but the four
| bodies which are at Gloucester have
not been identified as those of the men
! who formed part Of her crew. The
Clara Jayne lies high and dry on the
great Brewster at the entrance of the
Boston harbor.
Interest is taken in the report that
! the bodies of twelve men had been
| picked up just off shore and are now
at Bakers Island, about three miles
from here where an effort will be made
| tomorrow to reach and have the bodies
taken to the mainland for Identified
! ton.
PLYMOUTH, Mass, Feb 1.-TWO
! Gloucester steamers went ashore in
Plymouth bay yesterday. The George
Upton went on Rices Rocks and the
David Aosier on Dicks Flats. The
/ crews were saved.
STOCK EXCHANGE MONOPOLY.
Sensational Testimony Given In the
Omaha Case by Ex-Prcsident
! GiIchrisf.
OMAHA, Neb, Feb; 2.-In the hear