Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-02
STORM NOTES.

The schooner Georgietta of Hancock.
which has been ashore at Spruce Head,
was towed to Rockand The foremost IS
gone and the vessel is leaking consider
ably. She will repair there before pro-
ceeding
Wight & Cos. fleet. Rockland, arrived az
salem, Wednesday, setting at rest the
anxiety which was felt for her. Quite Il
number of RocKland vessels are still
missing.
The three-master Flora Condor OF
Belfast ashore at Vineyard Haven, is
reported to be dismasted. Her cargo
was shipped by the Ashland Manufac-
turing Company.
News was received at Portland.
Wednesday, that the schooner Pearl,
Capt. Bunker of st. Andrews. N. B., To
Portland, went ashore at Bass harbor.
The captain and crew were saved.
Schooner Effort. Capt Humphrey, ar
rived at Boothbay, Wednesday, and re-
ports that while on his way from Monhe-
gan island he sighted what he took to be
an unknown schooner dismaSted, three
miles southeast of New Harbor ladges:
whereabouts of crew unknown The
schooner was drifting out to sea.
Chief Wade Of the Boston district
police has sent officers with a photo
grapher to the scene of the wreck of
the Portland at Cape Cod to render any
assistance possible in the work of car
ing for and Identifying the bodies from
the Inflated steamer.
The cargo of the schooner Charles E.
Raymond. Bangor for New York.
ashore at Vineyard Haven, is owned by
the Storms Lumber Company, and is
insured. The vessel is owned by Cap
tain Winfield Pendleton of Islesboro,
who has no insurance.
There is much anxiety for the
schooner w. H. Card of Bucksport,
bound home from. Boston. Capt. Frank
Lowell had his wife and daughter on
board. No nevis has been received
from her and it IS feared she has found
cred. The vessel is owned by F.. A.
'Arey of Bucksport.
Word was received at Boothbay. Thurs
day, from Pemaqud harbor, that the
three-masted schooner Henry b. Cham
berlain. Capt. Eossett with crew on
board, parted both chains and drifted out
to sea. She was last seen off Thumb Gap
with. all sails in ribbons. AS she had
plenty of sea room, it is probable, thai
she weathered the gale. A fishing schoon-
er with four men on board was also
driven out to sea from the same harbor.
News has been received at Ellsworth
that the schooner Sarah A. Blaisdell,
owned by Captain Higgins and estate
Of Isaiah Blaisdell, collided with a
schooner supposed to be the Catharine,
also Of Ellsworth. during the storm at
Hyannis, Mass. The Blaisdeli was dis
masted, while the Catherine lost a Jib-
boom.
The British sulphur steamer Cleve-
land from Girgenti arrived at Port
land, Wednesday morning. She only
encountered about five hours of the
storm off Cape Sable. Her arrival
takes one more from the list of overdue
vessels. The British steamshipBuenos
Ayrean of the Allan Line is in the
lower harbor.
The schooner Amy knight of Bucks
port, Capt. Grant for Boston from Ban
gor, with lumber which has been miss
ing, was located Thursday ashore and
in bad condition on White island, off
Ninalhaven. The crew is safe and may
save a portion of the cargo. The vessel
is owned by Delano Bros. of Bucksport
and uninsured.
Cole, from Glasgow. arrived at Baltimore
Thursday, and landed Captain ApplebS
and IL men of the crew of II OF the bar
kentiue st. Lucie, who were rescued from
the vessel as she lay dismasted from the
recent storm, at s o'clock on the morning
of the 18th. in lat. 37.49, long. III one
of the crew had been lost. The st. Lueie
sailed from New York, Nov. %, for San
tos: She was built at Bowdoinham, Me.
in 1874 and registered 6S3 tons.
The large three-master S. c. Tryon
Boston for Frankfort, light, which Wen
ashore on the beach at Fort Point II
the big gale. is high and dry above
high water mark, and all efforts to ge
her off have been unavailing. She
must wait for another high run o.
tides or be launched from ways. The
schooner Forest Queen, lumber laden
Bangor for Stonington, also ashore a
Fort Point, is a total wreck and he
cargo is being taken off.
The big British steamship Daniel, by
lucky accident, just escaped being o.
the coast of Maine, close in. when the
gale broke She was from Newcastle
on-Tyne. and should have reached tn:
mouth of the Penobscot Bay on sun
day, but her condenser broke down Il
mid ocean. delaying her three days, So
that when. the storm was sweeping
this coast she was Oft Newfoundland
She reports that one of her crew, Al
fonso Lchwager, shot himself in th'
head, on Nov. 16. being dead Wher
found. He was respondent because NJ
had been Tilted by girl in Rotterdam
His body was buried at sea on th'
18th.
The schooner Carrie c. Miles, which
was completely dismasted in Portland
harbor during the storm by COLLISION
with the Rockland schooner, A. Hea
ton, was towed to Rockland, Thursday
and is at Cobb, Butler & Cos YARD
where she will receive new spars
new bowsprit, etc. The hull is no
much damaged. The repairs will cos
about $1,000. The schooner Georgiett
OF Hancock, which has been ashore A
leo f.,xry q