The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-02-10
Echoes from the Storm.



THE COST OF THE STORM IN BOSTON.
Boston Elevated Railway Co. .....$ 224 600
City of Boston. Observation-Disclosures. Is 600
Western Union Telegraph Co...... 10000
Postal Telegraph Co........-...... 10000
Long Distance Telephone Co.. 5000
New England Telephone Co. ...... 10000
Loss OF shipping interest about.... $50 600
Loss to Boston's business interests,
at least. 100000
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A PORTLAND STORM TRAGEDY.
PORTLAND, ME-, Feb. 2. The only
distressing story in connection with the
blizzard in this vicinity comes from
Bailey's island, in the outer bay. Capt.
A. G. Sproul of Boothbay Harbor ran his
lobster smack in there for harbor The
little craft was riding out the storm all
right, when she was fouled by another
vessel. Captain Sproul, his wife and the
one man who composed the crew were
compelled to seek safety on shore. They
wandered about in the storm and intense
cold all night, not finding shelter until
after daylight. Mrs. Sproul was so badly
frozen that she will probably die. The
two men, while seriously frostbitten,
were around to-day.
YACHTS WRECKED AT BOOTHBAY
PORTLAND, Me-, Feb 2. A telephone
message received in this city to- day from
| Boothbay Harbor, announces that the gale
has done great damage there. Boothbay
Harbor is a great place for wintering
yachts and there were many anchored
there before the recent gale. The gentle
man who telephoned said that almost
every one of these yachts had broken
from their moorngs and gone ashore and
many of them would be total wrecks.
A TERRIBLE LIST.
| Below is list, so far as known, of yes
sells lost or seriously damaged on the coast
| of Massachusetts, with the location where
| they We're last seen or where the wrecking
was helplessly witnessed:
| Schooner George r. Bradford, Rockport
| Sloop Daniel Webster, Rockport.
! Schooner Barracuda. Rockport.
| Schooner Defiance, Rockport.
/ Schooner Charley SJedman, Rockport
1 Lighter Frank Scripture, Rockport.
Schooner Charles A. Briggs, Nahant
! Schooner Darling c. Traitor, Salem.
| Schooner Elmer Randall, Salem.
Schooner Nat Meader, Salem.
! Schooner Georgia, Salem.
| Schooner Annie f. Harper, Salem.
| Schooner Caroline Knight. Salem.
| Schooner Addie E. Snow, Salem.
Schooner James Z. Talbot, Salem
| Schooner Harry c. Chester, Salem.
Schooner Helen C.. King, Salem.
Schooner John NJ. Keen, Gloucester
/ schooner Senator Gloucester.
/ Sloop Mary A, White, Gloucester
Schooner Nesta. Gloucester
SnbooOpr EIap+ra A Ration G1oucac+a,.
| Schooner Martha A. Bradley, Glouces-
/ ter.
/ Schooner Hattie H. Graham, Gloucester
Schooner Nereid, Gloucester
Schooner Sarah L. Nightingale, Glouces-
4 ter.
| Schooner Lawrence A. Munro. Glouces-
ter.
Schooner Bertha D. Nickerson, Glouces-
! ter.
Sloop Riverside, Gloucester.
i Schooner Unique, Gloucester.
| Schooner John B. Presson, Gloucester.
| Schooner Lizzie Griffin. Gloucester
Schooner George W. Jewett. Hough' S
| Neck :
Schooner Albert H. Harding. Hough' S
| Neck.
| Schooner Clara Jane, Hough's Neck.
Schooner James Holmes, Houghs Neck.
Schooner Marcelus, Hough's Neck.
! SUMMING UP THE STORMS WORK
BosToN, Feb. 3. The full realization
of the magnitude, and severity of the
/ winter hurricane which on Monday night
and Tuesday morning made a record for
| itself in eastern Massachusetts and in
| Rhode Island was the feature of yester-
days revival of business and communi-
cation with the outside world after many
hours of practically complete isolation.
| With the resumption of traffic and the
slow patching up of telegraph wires, as
| well as the arrival of mails from different
points, came more of the details of this
terrific and now historic storm
People here were, in a measure, able
| to count the loss not only to property,
! but OF the lives of those who 60 down to
| the sea in ships, for while the former
already foots up into millions, the loss
OF life on the rocky New England coast
and the wild surges of Massachusetts
bay, will not probably be equaled fol
many years to come. That SO many
brave seamen should have found watery
| grave, undoubtedly makes this the most
startling feature of the storm, and as the
| reports came, meager to be sure, but
nevertheless trustworthy, of bodies not
singly, but in twos and threes. being
picked up along the shore, it was seen
that while the blowing down of telegraph
poles and the gripping of railroad traffic
| was great hindrance to communication
it sank into insignficance as compared
with the terrible news of brave sailors 60
ing to their death while their ships were
broken on dangerous reefs.
summing up of the storms work is
as yet difficult, but last night it appeared
almost certain that the great hurricane
claimed more than a dozen human lives,
wrecked over 80 schooners in Massachu-
sets bay, completely prostrating all tele-
graph lines and caused total property loss
of near two million dollars.
DehOrning Cattle.
Bulletin of the Maine Agricultural Expert
| ment Station.