Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-04
Widest FOR YEARS.
Nova Scotia Suffers Particularly
from the Storm.
Many Thousands Damage and Many
Vessels Fast Ashore.
The Lower Atlantic Coast the Scene Of
Many Disa sters.

Halifax. n. s., Feb. 3.-Last nights
storm was the widest in Nova Scotia
for years and reports received here, to-
night. indicate that an immense amount
of damage has been done. The gale
reached a velocity of go miles an hour
and the tides We're very high. Many
marine disasters have been reported but
50 far no loss Of life is reported. Ship
ping has suffered severely and numer-
Gus fine vessels have been wrecked.
Ii is roughly estimated from the in
formation ct hand that the damage to
sailing vessels alone will amount to at
least $4,000. The greatest damage was
done at Lunenburg. y dispatch from
there. tonight, says that hurricane
prevailed there. that was extraordina-
rily high and that an immense amount
Of damage has been done 10 shipping at
that port and all along the coast.
Il is estimated that the damage at
Lunenburg alone will amount to at
least $25, COO. Fourteen vessels have
been seriously damaged. Some of them
are high and dry on the beach. while
others We're in collision. The schooner
Cevera which arrived from the West
Indies. Friday, salt laden. dragged her
anchors and now lies badly damaged
on the mud flats. The scEooners Tyler
and Muriel are also ashore at the same
place half full of water. The port side
Of the schooner Squill has been stove
in. 1t will cost $1,000 to repair her
The brig Leo broke adrift and fouled
the new tern schooner w. NJ. Sewicker.
Both vessels sustained considerable
damage. The Leo while drifting down
| the harbor collided with the big fish
wharf and carried it away.
The schooners Mimic, Baden Powell,
Atlanta, Bessie and Lila B. Hirtle also
sustained much damage. Six schooners
at Ritchey's Cove We're carried away
by the ice when 1t broke and all were
badly damaged. The schooners AYES
and Collpita are high and dry on Mil
ler's Point and both are making water.
The schooner Premier is ashore at
Schrader's Point and half full of water.
The British steamer Mira, Capt.
Muir, under charter to the Dominion
Coal Co., Is ashore at Chebouqe point
near Yarmouth and is Il total wreck.
The steamer left Boston, Saturday
with small quantity of general cargo
and at o'clock this morning she struck
the ledge and stove big hole in her
bottom. The steamer began to make
water Immediately and the captain and
crew of 80 men saw that their ship was
doomed made preparations to leave her.
The water poured into the engine room
putting out the fires and the steamer
began to settle fast. The crew, how
ever, stood by the steamer until day
light, rockets being fired in the mean
time.
The shore folks on seeing the signals
of distress quickly came to the assist
ance of the Inflated steamer. When
daylight broke 1t was found that the
steamer was quite near the land and
lines were run from the foremost to the
shore and the crew in small numbers
were sent ashore in a basket.
Capt Muir remained by the steamer
until Lloyd's agent took charge. The
captain says that he was sitting in the
cabin when the steamer struck and
she went on the rocks so easily that
he did not know that she was ashore
until the mate told him. The captain
attributes the loss of the ship to the
strong gale and adverse currents. as a
short time before she struck he sight
ed what he thought was Cape Sable
light.
Nearly the whole bottom has been
pounded out of the steamer and there
is no hope of saving her. The Mira is a
comparatively new steamer of 2450 tons
register. and halls from London. 1t is
expected that a portion of her cargo
will be saved.