Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-21
TOLL 0F-THf- SEA.
Believed 125 Lost Lives in
Years Marine Disasters.
Massachusetts and hewfOund-
land Hold GTuesome Records.
The Peaked Mil Bars Claim Most
Lives in Single Accident.

Boston. March 20--Fuily i23 persons
persisted Ill accidents which hetel New
England, canadian and Newfoundland
2esSelS. OF other craft Which met with
disaster in western upper North At
Iantic waters curing the fail and win
TER season now ending. 1t is impoSSl-
bic to announce the exact number ol
lives lost. as missing Gloucester
schooner. the Ella Vi. Goodwin. with
her crew Of men, may be Yet aioat
in northern ice fields, and as statistics
OF lost Newfoundland fishermen ale
incomplete. III all one hundred YES
Sals were ashore, sunk, abandoned.
ulned OF in collision during the past
six months of the number - We're
srhooners: :. steamers; barseS. :"
barkentines: >, barkS; ;. briSantiE"s' :.
togS. enc u $4,000 auxiliary steam
went and one Il power boat. SiNtN-
i've oi the 100 We're total wrecks. iAe
n9ioritN hailing from New England
ports The loss of life on stranded
vessels was greatest on the Mdssachu-
sets and Newfoundland coasts, The
maritime provinces were r"mafkabiN
free from fatalities. although many
natives of that section of Canada Were
lost IN wrecks elsewhere or persisted
on several craft long posted as 'lnisS-
ing." The combined financial loss IS
estimated at nearly $1,0o0.0o0.
The most tragic disaster occurred on
Peaked Hill bars, Cape Cod, on Jan.
10, when the Philadelphia harSeS
Trevorton, Pine Forest and torbin
We're lost, seventeen men perisllInS,
the crew of the Pine Forest sacrificed
their lives needlessly in an attempt 10
row 10 the beach through the giant
breakers. Had they remained or
board they would have been safe, as
the Pine Forest held together for seH-
oral days,
on Oct. %. - persons We're drowned
when the Steamer Regulus was
ground to pieces by the rocks near st.
Johns. y. F.
srhe grim death list OF the fall sea-
son was further swelled on Dec. l5-lt.
when half "a dozen schooners and sex
eral bargeS were wrecked in It gale
which ragged with exceptional violence
along the Cape Cod shore and Nam
tueket shoals. During this storm the
United States Revenue cutter Gresh-
AM. stationed at Boston, distinguished
herself by rescuing several snip
wrecked crews at great peril To- her
own men. ana by floating number
of stranded craft. The revenue cut
ters Androscoggn and Acushnet, like
the Gresham were active throughout
the stormy period of the fall and win
LEI and also aided many distressed
mariners
Among the LII" savers, the Cape Cod,
Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket sta
lions were the most active during the
gales of December and January.
During the season three vessels We're
II difficulties in the far north-the
Norwegian Steamer Adria, the PAIRS
boro y. =. lark Alkaline and the
canadian government schooner Jeanne.
Tho steamer was wrecked on the
sout bern coast Of Iceland late Decem-
her. The list Of Il of her crew who
Terished are not included in the fig
ures before given. The bark Alkaline
left Ivigtut. Greenland. on oct 10 foa
Philadelphia but she never reached
her destination. ON oct - storm
of hurricane proportions forced her to
seek shelter in the harbor of Arsuk.
South Greenland where she was frozen
III anu VIII pfoDdDiN remain lnlpFlSoHeu
until May or June. Northern Hudson
Bav was the scene of the wreck las.
fall of the schooner Jeanne, which
carried a scientific expedition, headed
by Prof. j. l.. MacConn. The scicn
lists, IL in number, and the crew es
capped. but lost their personal proper
~. After they reached land and were
supplied with food by Eskimos, {
broken life boat was repaired and in
this way they made their way to
Fullerton. Capt. Bartlett of the
Jeanne is brother of the commander
Of the Peary polar expedition.
The whaling schooner A. r. Gicord
which was in winter quarters at Full
l"rton took them to Fort Churchill.
whence. on December ), the party
started through deep snow on foot
for Norway House They arrived
home after a 100 mile tramp in Il
temperature which registered at times
g. degrees below zero. The Jeania