Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-17
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Time 10 Recent Blizzard.
Steamer Colorado Safe..$sh. csa.
Ion Arrives at porismoih.

blizzard Of last night and today
brought disaster to shipping along the
Massachusetts coast and tonight four
schooners We're known to have been
wrecked, another was in town disabled,
one barge had fOundered and other
barges were reported adrift ana miss
ing. For the revenue cutter Gresham,
which took aboard the crews of two
sinking sclIooners and assisted several
other vessels the entire day and most
of the night were taken up with the
labor of undoing the havoc Of the
storm. Up to tonight no definite report
of loss of life had reached this city.
The vessels which paid the toll of the
storm included the following:
Schooner Thomas b. Garland Of
Portsmouth, total wreck, on Great
Point bar Nantucket, the crew OF
which was rescded early today by the
Coskata lifesaving station crew.
Schooner Abbie q. Cole of Machias.
stranded and water logged on Stone
Horse shoal. off Monomoy point, the
crew of which was rescued by the
Gresham this morning when the Mo-
nomoy Point lifesavers found the seas
too heavy to man their lifeboats.
Two-masted schooner N. r. Aver, taken
in tow by the Gresham off Old IIarbor.
British schooner S. a. Fownes. ashore
off Monomoy point, the crew of which
the Gresham took on board late today.
Luinber-laden schooner Stephen G..
Loud. abandoned SO miles southeast OF
Boston light. the crew OF which was res
cued this morning by the steamer A. W.
Perry and brought here.
A.. IT.
schooner Annie r. Conlon arrived today
in 4 disabled condition, n days out from
Philadelphia. The barge Haywood, one
Of the tow Of three behind the tug Mar
saret. foundered last night of Cape Cod
and the other barges of the tow, the
Scranton and Binghamton. are missing.
One Of the barses IN town Of the tug
Cumberland is also reported missing. -~
Anchorages ordinarily safe proved
treacferous to vessels last night Under
the terrific strain Of the northwest
blizzard. The storm heavily laden
with snow had been forseen a day
ahead but mariners who had been
without the aid of reports for several
days. were unprepared for the change
from the mild southerly breeze OF
Wednesday to the gusty northwestern OF
Thursday. The disturbance vas &C.
companied by such intense cold as to
make most unhappy the lot of the
seamen but in these try
ing conditions the revenue cutter
Gresham was busyly engaged in her
work Of succor and inside OF "a hours
her crew under Capt uberroth had
brought timely aid to various storm
wrecked craft.
At O'clock tonight the Gresham
was off Highland light bound for
ProvincctoWn where she is to drop her
tow and land the rescued mariners
whom she carries. Then she viii start
off in search of the derelict schooner
Stephen g. Loud. reported to be drift
ing east-southeast OF Boston light and
a menace to navigation.
Nantucket, Mass, Dec, l8.--A north.
westerly blizzard tore the three.
masted schooner Thomas y. Garland.
Of Portsmouth. n. H.. from an Appar-
emily safe anchorage underneath,
Handkerchief Shoal across Nantucket
Sound anC tossed her into the icy
breakers inside OF Great Point at $50
a. NJ. today. The half-frozen crew.
one of them badly injured, were
brought ashore at daylight ~ Capt.
John B. Norcross and Eis sturdy crew
of the Coskata lifesaviiig CITATION.
Mat" Daniel Larson was 50 badly In
jured as to require surgical treat
ment rr-s7-- rsa,age+' ~fa
The vessel is likely to be / total
wreck. The schooner Thomas B.. Gar
land is one Of fleet Of tllrse.mast9rs
owned by 3. Frank Nealley Of Dover
and Portsmouth. She loaded coal at
South Arnboy early In ths month and
sailed from that port for Salem, Mass.
on Dec. 6. The usual call was made
at Vineyard Haven and. Wednesday
tho Garland proceeded to the east
ward. Capt. T.. C. Wallace Of Bev-
erly. her commander, edged, along
down Nantucket Sound until yesterday
he hauled up under. the lee Of Nam
tucket and anchored a little to the
westward of Handkerchief Ehoal q
favorite hating place for eastbound
sailing vessels waiting for favorable
weather to cross Nantucket Shoals
The Garland was riding at anchor
last night in moderate southwester.
when the wind suddenly. hauled into
the west and northwest and began to
pipe up. 1t blew harder and harder
with snowsqualls. until Just before
midnight it had nearly reached hur-
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