Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-08
SHIPPING IN PERIL.
Heavy Gale and Tremendous
Sea Off Nova Scotia.
Scores Of Vessels More OF Less DAM
aged by the Storm.
Several Wrecked ard Loss OF Lie is Already
Being Reported.

Halifax. y. 8. Sept. "A severe
storm has prevailed for the past As
hours on this coast. The wind is north
west and blowing almost at hurricane
force. 1t is feared many disasters have
occurred with heavy loss Of property.
The steamer Gaspesia is anchored two
miles off Glace bay. {. b., disabled.
She struck off Lingan. this afternoon,
but floated off in a disabled condition
and was obliged to anchor to prevent
going ashore. 4 dispatch from Glaze
bay says the ship is in a perilous posi-
ton. The wind is blowing so miles an
hour and it VIII be very difficult if not
impossible to send assistance until the
storm abates. The Gaspesia is from
st. Johns. \. F.. bound for New York.
She was imprisoned in the ice in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. all winter. and
on her release was sold in New Found
land to satisfy claims for salvage. etc.
The discovery was made. tonight.
that two scows employed in trying to
raise the sunken oil steamer Maverick
in this h2rbor had been wrecked. One
turned turtle and the other was driven
ashore. over $4,000 worth OF boilers.
cranes. etc, We're lost and two men on
the overturned barge had a narrow es-
cape with their lives. 1t is doubtful if
the Maverick will now be raised.
Over 30 vessels have taken shelter
from the gale at Digby. Nearly all the
fishing boats anchored off Little River,
st. Marry's bay. counting about two
score large and small, broke from their
mornings, this morning. drifted across
to the French shore and We're badly
smashed by the tremendous sea run
ming. The schooner Warrior, from
Halifax. while making her wharf at
Annapolis. ran aground in the river
knocked n hole in her bottom and sank.
She is laden with coal.
Several vessels parted their moor
ings at Whitney Pier. Sydney, and two
ran ashore. the Gertie Lewis. 20 tons.
at Barrack Point and the Favourite, SO
tone, from Channel, y. F.. at a ship
yard above the town. The Gertie Lewis
will probably go to pieces. No lives
were lost The wind reached a veloc-
ity of So miles an hour on the Cape
Breton coast. sweeping in from the sea
with terrific violence.
A dispatch from Pugwash says: The
Norwegian bark Nadia broke away from
her anchorage at cape Tormentlne, last
night. during q northwest hurricane, and
drifted down the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
striking on reef on the south shore. five
miles from PuGwash, \. S. The crew are
all safe. 1t is feared the vessel will be
come a total wreck.
Two Caraquet fishing boats arrived a
Alberton. p. +. L.. today, the crews of
which reported that two boats belonging
to CaraQuet. y. b.. containing eight men
were broken up off Kildare Cape. p. +. l..
by last nights gale ana their occupants
drowned. Two of the bodies We're recov
cred off Cahills. South Kildare not far
from the shore. and were pounded to
pieces by the breakers. The accident hap |
pened at p. NJ.
The schooner Jasper. Capt. Embree, |
went ashore off Flat river, last night. The |
boat belonging to the schooner was lost |
and the crew remained at the mercy of |
the waves until this morning, when they |
We're rescued by a boat from the shore |
The schooner was from Chatham. n. b., |
and will probably be a total wreck.
\ very heavy lightning storm passed |
schooner Charlie. Capt. Deseroche owned |
by j. Fl. Myrick. was struck and large |
hole made in her side near the water line |
She was taken in tow to Alberton harbor |