The Portland daily press., 1898-02-03

Several Maine schooners, Including Two
Rocks of CHASTITY Tradition
Magnolia, Mass, February 2.-Four of
the six schooners which were anchored in
Freshwater Cove on Monday and which
were either blown ashore or out to sea by
the blizzard have been definitely located,
but the fate of the other two Is still a
mystery. There is enough wreckage on
Delivers Point to account for these two
vessels, the James Holmes of Belfast and
the Marcellus Of Bucksport, but nothing
has been found that can be said to identi-
fly either as having been dashed to pieces
on the jagged rocks. What remains of the
George W. Jewett lies on the beach at
Delivers Point, Gloucester, but the four
bodies which are at Gloucester, have not
been identified as the men who formed
part of her crew.
The Clara Jane lies high and dry on
the Great Brewster at the entrance of
Boston harbor. fifteen miles away, after
being blown across the bay and by soJne
miracle through the rocks which have
proved graveyard for many vessel.
T he crew of the Sarah Jane are safe,
having been saved by the life saving crew
of Hull The Albert H. Harding, which
was anchored not far from these six
schoonres, was also among the III ssing,
but today her entire crew were brought
into Gloucester, having been rescued by
q fisherman which had outlived the gale.
There is great interest manifested here
in the report that the bodies OF twelve
men had been picked up. just of shore
and are now at Baker Island about three
miles off.
An effort will be made tomorrow to
reach the island and have the bodies
taken to the main land for Identification
and perhaps solve the mystery OF the
Marcellus and the James Holmes.
Such wholesale destruction of craft
has never been recorded on Magnolia's
rocky shores, Notwithstanding the
historic tale that surrounds the reef of
Norman's Woe which lies about mile
from the scene of Tuesdays disaster.
All these schooners were coasters and
were on their way either to or from Bos
ton.
The James Holmes was. built and
owned in Belfast.
The Marcellus was one of the Oldest
schooners of the coasting fleet, being
built in Bucksport in 1887.
The Clara Jane was a Calais boat and
was built in Pembroke, Maine, in 1864.
The Charles II. Trickey hailed from
Portland, being built in Bath in 1879 and
the Samuel Dillaway in the same place in
1886.
These two were the largest of the fleet.
The George W. Jewett was also a Bath
built boat and like the Trickey was
owned in Portland.
NEAR RNEWFOUNDLAND
ST. Johns, N. F., February 2.-Sixteen
men belonging In Trinity Bay, were
driven off in the ice yesterday while seal
hunting. 1t is feared they have perished.
The boats that were out seeking them to-
day returned at night-fall without having
gotten sight of them. The steamer Van
has been SO hazy 1t has been impossible
to do much.
The British brigantine Lady Bertha,
Captain Pattey, from Alicante, November
2Sth, drove ashore last night at Renews
harbor, forty miles south of here. She
was imbedded in an ice foe and became
a total wreck. Her seven men, it is
feared, are lost, although they may be
drifting about in a boat amid the Ice.
A barkentine supposed to be the Au-
reola, Captain WakemaD, from ST. Johns
for Pernambuco, fish laden, was driven
ashore by foe eight miles SOUTH Her
crew is probably safe.
Nothing is known here today regarding
the steamer that was flying distress sig
nails in the ice yesterday. The steamer
Glover started to seek her this morning.
CLARA JANE DAMAGED.
Boston, February 2.-The two masted
cchooner Clara lane of Calais Me- is