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- -EURIPIDES.

LABRADOR HURRICANE.

Graphic Description of the Terrific Gale.

HEROISM AND HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE.

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(Rev. Moses Harvey, in Montreal Gazette )

St. Jonn s, Nfid., Oct. 23.—A. terrible calamity has befallen this colony, entailing a very heavy loss of life and destruction of property, and inflicting great sufferings on many hundreds—or I may sey thousands— of our population. No disaster so serious has occurred since the destruction of St. | John’s by fire in 1846; but that involved |

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dren. At Black Islands, a schooner belong- ing to Conception Bay was lost with all hands. At Ragged islands, a ma) named Alfred King ijost his wife and two children. A girl named Thistie, who was brought here in the Nellie, had a narrow escape. The vessel in which she was struck and went to pisces; she was hurled into the waves and washed ashore, fearfully bruised, one of her fingers having been taken off and one of her legs badiy cut. She was care- fully attended to on board the Nellie, and is now in a fair way of recovery. The kindness of the poor creatures to one an- other, when any have been specially uufor- tunate, is most touching.

A NEWFOUNDLAND HERo., The dark tragedy is relieved by some

only the destruction of property. In this’ ! case seventy-five lives are known to have traits of genuine hercism. A young man been lost, and when all is known, it is named Reardon had eecaped from a wreck probable many more will have to be added by swimming. He had barely reached the to the death list. I sent you a brief tele- ‘shore when he heard the wild shrieks of graphic summary of the sad news received despair from a woman on board an- from Labrador on last Saturday night—to/ other vessel that wasfast going to pieces. the effect that ina terrific storm which , The brave fellow did not hesitate a moment. swept that coast on the 11th and 12th inst.,|) He dashed into the boiling surges, and eighty vessels had been wrecked, seventy after a fearful struggle with the waves, he lives lost, and two thousand persons driven reached the wreck, aud swam ashore, bring- ashore on that savage coast, where moat of ing with h'm the rescued woman, Just be- them were without shelter and but a scanty fore he reached the vessel two women were supply of food. The news was first brought killed by the falling of a punt on them. by the steamship Panther to Brigus, where | Surely if ever a hero merited the Victoria she arrived from Turnavick, Labrador, on | Cross for valor, this Newfoundland fisher- the 24th inst., late in the evening. The man deserves such honor. The soldier who next day the barkentine Nellie arrived at | braves the storm of grapeshot anu rescues & St. John’s from Smokey Run, Labrador, | wounded comrade at the peril of his own having on board .240 shipwrecked men, life, is honored and rewarded; and his women and children. ‘The intelligence|praise is sung by poets. But does he

brought by these two vessels showed the perform a nobler deed than this, or one |

fearful extent of the havoc wrought by the;more marked by unselfish heroism ? It storm. does not appear that he even knew before the women whom he risked his life to save. It ia to be hoped some beautiful rewards await him.

SCENES OF TERROR,

It appears that the gale commenced on Sunday, the 11th Octoher, and continned ; Se to rage with increasing fury till Monday A ae en evening at sunset, when it began to abate.| Anothertouching story is told. A father Thoge who passed through it describe it as tried to save his bx ys eleven or twelve years the most awful hurricane ever witnessed, | old, by swimming with the led fastened on even by the hardy fishermen who frequentjhis back. Lie struggled hard, but again that storm-beaten coast. It first blew fromjand again, with such a burdon on his the south-east, continually increasing in|thoulders, he was nearly overwhelmed. violence, then it suddonly veered to the|The boy begged Lis father to let him go north-east and the cold became intense. |aud save his own life; and when he saw The fierce blasts began to hurl the snow-|that his father would not do this he flakes on their wings of gloom, and at in- managed to work himself free and struck tervels the whole atmosphere wes darkened | Out towards the shore. A huge wave came by the drifts. It was a scene of awe and and flung father and ser on the shore and terror, which the imagination can but faint- {both were saved. A lady who saw the boy ly realize. The sea rose in tumultuous bil- since he reached home, told me that she lows ‘mountain high,’ the watery battalions |#9id to him, ‘*Will you ever go to Labrador hurled themselves fiercoly against the dark}agsin?’ The reply was ‘‘Oh, yes, mom—I cliffs, and when flung back gathered their |likesit—Iil go next year.” ‘‘Were you strength for fresh assaults. In the midst|afraid when you were on your father’s of this wat of elements a flset of little fish-| back?” ‘‘No, mam, I was only a little bit ing vessels were struggling for life—some|frightened. I thorght poor father wes were caught ia the tempest on the home-|goin’ to be drowned, end what would ward voyage, laden deeply with the produce mother do then—soI yot off his back.’ of the summer’s toils—others lay at anchor}The youse boy, a vory bright intelligent loading in the exposed roadsteads and bar- |fellow,with a fine,open, manly countenance, bors, where there was not sufficient shelter, |says my informant, will, if he lives, become On hoard were hunJreds of fishermen, }4 splendid specimen of our Newfoundland meny of them with their wives and chil-| fishermen. dren, for it is their custom to take their} yewrounpLAND DoOGs SAVE A WOMAN, ‘amilies with them to aid in handling the A cote hokdanadths ne ta bode lish, As the storm continued and increased | , White. fe ear ee E's staat ain ek ane Be ' t White Bear Islands a woman belouging in violence the vessels were pressed to Conception Bay found hersell’in the NEARER AND NEARER TO THE FATAL ROCKS water, the veaseil having goue down, and as vhere the white breakers were visible. |there was no means of reeehing the shore, Others were torn from their anchors and|she gave herseli up for jost, But at that began to drift shoreward, One by one they | critical moment she saw two Newfoundland ipproached their doom. In imagination | dogs that had been op board swimming for we picture to ourselves the plunging ves-|their lives shoreward. She either called sels; their decks and hold crowded with|them, or they inetinctively came to the verror stricken, white-faced men and |rescue of the drowning woman, so closely women; we hear the crash of the vessel as} that she was able to grasp the long hair on she strikes, the wild shrieks of deepsir,| their backs, and so was safely carried ashore. the human mass was hurled into the seeth-|The marvellous escapes of others would ing surges, some sinking to rise no mcre,joccupy too much space if narrated, As thers clinging to fragments of the wreck;}soon as the news of the disaster reached St. some flung ashore, more dead than alive,|John’s, the government took prompt and m the huge rollers, Fency the awful con-|energetic measures for rescuing the ship- dition of the survivors, flung out here drip-{ wrecked crews and bringing them home, ping with brine, a biinding snowstorm | Two steamers that lay at Harbor Grace were raging around them, perhaps no human|hastily got ready for sea, provisions and habitation or shelter near. They pass the|clothing in abundance put on board, and dreary night shivering and _ wretched.|in less than twenty-four hours they were When the storm abutes and the sun sbines|despatched to the scene of the disaster. out new terrors await them. ‘The strand is}The mail steamer Plover was taken from strewn with the drowned corpses of their | her usual route, provisioned and sent to the comrades, friends or relatives cast up by the| same destination. Fortunately there were pitiless sea; andon that dreary shore they |two steamers at Labrador when the storm inust scoop out a shallow grave in which to} took place, and these at once devoted them- commit “earth to earth.” As the sad task/selves to the help and rescue of the ship- is begun, women are weeping and wringing | wrecked people. The steamship Vanguard ‘heir hands over the loss of husbands or| was one of these, end she arrived at Harbor sons, and heart-broken parents are taking | Grace on the 26ih, having on board 650 of the last lovk at the lifeless forms of chil-|the sihpwrecked people, brought from dren committed to this lovely grave with-|Grady. The other was the Hercules, and out sheond or coffin. This is no imaginary|she reached Tilt Cove on the same day picture. It was, alas! sadly realized in| with 240 people on board. Sailing vessels many an instance, in this terrible tempest,|are arriving with deachments cn | ord. in which from 70 to 80 souls perished, and|The Lady Kiibank brought 200 to Harbor over 80 vessels were flung on the rocks.|Grace. Thereis no doubt that the steam- The ers now gone north will be able to find and

SUFFERINGS OF THE SHIPWRECKED bring home the remainder of the wrecked rews wers terrible. While some were |°T°™* S0me oF ve ore etill exposes am driven ashore where there were hate to|Petilouscircumstances. 1he poor people as shelter them, others were wrecked on de- they arrive are solate islands, where they had to await IN A PITIABLE PLIGHT,

relief, with scarcely enough to sustain life, end some found themselves miles away from any buman habitation. The saddest scene of all was at White Bear Islands. Here two vessels, the Release and Hope, si hall their anchors out, were strugg ing to ride out the storm, They held on till! Monday morning, when the moorings gave way. The Release drificd on an island to leeward, ard was speedily dashed into pieces. Twenty-five of those on board were drowued, all but six being women and children. The Hope was carried on a ledge of rock, near the shore. Two punts were launched and filled wiih those on board, who reached the shore in safety; but, be- fore the remainder could be rescued, the vessel broke up, and fourteen met a watery grave, most of them being women and children. Theecene is said to have been appalling. Poor mothers were seen clasp- ing their children to their bosoms in speech- less agony, and children crying for aid and clinging to the hands that were powerless to save. The merciless billows rushed on them and covered all with

A WINDING SHEET OF FOAM.

but thankful to reach their homes alive. Many of them have lost everything. All their hard earned catch cf fish 1s gone, and they come home to face the long, cold winter with hardly anything in their houses. They will receive ail the help that is possible both from private charity and out of the public funds, but with all that can be done for them their privations and sufferings will be great. The Government deserve much credit for the prompt and judicious measures they adopted for the re- lief of the suffers. ESTIMATE OF LOSSES.

At present the loss by this storm is esti- mated at £50,000 te £60,000, or $200,000 to [§220,000. Most of the versels are in- sured in a Mutual Insurance club; but when w disaster of this kind occurs, there might almost as well be no insurance, aa the smount reqvired to meet the claims has to be contribuied by ail the membera of the club, and thus anything gained by insurance is paid out im covering lorses. The lors of so many fishing vessels will eeriously interfere with fishing operations next year, though

Thirty-nine in sil perished at this single spot. One man lost his wife and four chil-

many new vessels may be built during the

winter, aud thus employment be afforded.