The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-08
.FROZEN NTBO A'T--L O OAD' ID
REAC CHES SHORE.
Sea Poured in Torrents Through
Big Hole in Bow of Vessel. .
| The Missing .]E',' Boat at Il.
"a May Have Been 5.5S
5 Driven Sea- 81 # !. ' a
ward. I:
fBy A.lss,ociat ed Press.

1nAL1rAx. N 81. Feb. I. During q
raging gallo and tlnding snow-storm tori n
which has swept the Nova Scotia coast 2. ',,';
for the past twent four hours, the ocean
steamer Da1nara, OF tho Ftriless lin g, ran "
on the ledge at Aiusau doboit. thirty miles
cas- OF HALF earl to-day and Is be-, be-
lioved to have foundered with the losn t7i' q
many lives. is6H4 vi Issa
The first on icer OF the ship, with sigh'-3
teen OF tho crew. escaped in one h {of the
life boats ana landed PleasaIl Point. \
III tor a terrific struggle With wind and a!rl
sea. CAPTAIN a orst, master Of the Da-5
mara, four pa szengers and the rest 4 Of
the steam Ct, "a crew, left the YessAl An an
other sllfe-boat. They have not been heard az
}of since, and 4 tsi 81 feared that they have
perished N I
Narrowing q Experience NJ
The occupants 81 the boat hich reachheadl g 3 g !
1 shore were utterly enllaust ted. II and mar
were frostbl tten. They had q narrowing win
oxperi ience, battling III 4 tho dnrklless g sfors
hours ins the open boat q galnst tempest-a
nous seas on ;it treachero oast W lth
Tho thermome ter ten degrees 8belo oW zero
md IN Arctic blizzard rag ng. They "a nd.
ed on shore some time during the day,
al, 4 reached the telegraph ficoS at Mus:-i :
1 fuluodoboit itS ha rbor$ this evening y, vi el1ca
sthoy wired the first iewsE Eofs the disaster
to the i, agents OF the F,urn ess line q
Ell fax ITO which point the Dam, ra was l4
bound }$,s
I he i; survi iyors s$ say that he steamer
struck about 8 clock this me ng when hen
e&blizzards so St 81 hat it was
Silnos.lble sto3 see a, ship, s Ian b. ahead.
I tos ne N oboit ledge,
five miles from the ma Inland
5' a ~ 5s5 Swept by, Waves:
An Immense d hole, through which the
4 sea noured Tin sl torren ts,5 Wn g Il srnas he'd
ain5 the, bow Of n Il la stennle The y shock
I Of IL ttle sirlipac til aWakened 4 every one on
board and huge break kers swept tho YES 4.
sci foreaartl aft t,is ii feR boats s were order
over the aid deEand gall ands left the slip.
9It iss5 believed that he stennM M must " =
have sfoUnde tiuiokl and small hope 1yo
Is entertained A by Y thef stlryl vors of Z t1e ne
PANTS fs2the Kissing eboats could have
successfu lilly ithstood the ext xtremo rigo.r
of tho Syveatiier revailiilg on this coas
for the man hours which have passed .s3s5
The wind to--nigh was off shore; and ,!
ifS tie lnissIng boat has not been alrea!dy
srwamped has beolt driven u seaward z
mlanyainile aand is5f now probably adrift
on tho Atlantic In tho worst weather
this season. ugs were dispat ched Il from
this harbor might to search for 3 ne
boat. ana to locate the hlllto 1.-the Damara.
THO 6Damara left ]. liverpool on January
24the for Halifax. by way of st. Johns N.
N, d and left st. Johns for this port last
saturday. The names Of the survivors
could not be learned tonight, but ttisst 9
known that all Of the crew. were Ss 3 3! tipped
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