Many Lives Lost.
HAIL AND SNOW STORM. BEGAN WITHOUT WARNING. (Br luonuo Tiugbaph—Ooptbioht] PJHITBD PBIM AmoCIATIOM.' Ottawa, June 10. A furious gale, with hail and snow, at New Brunswick, began without warning. - Many vessels were overturned, and survivors reached the shore half frouu. Altogether sixty perished. CALE AT 150 MILES AN HOUR. St. John's, June 10. More than a hundred lives were lost in the storm-swept Bay of Chueleur on Thursday and Friday of last week. According to reports, the storm caused the greatest number of fatalities in the history of the North Shore. The captain of the schooner Warren has arrived in port from Shippegan. He states that the wind blew at the rate of 160 miles an hour, and no one could walk the deck. At the height of the gale, seaweed was flung as high as the top of the masts, and a double length of iron chain holding the schooner to the, wharf snapped like chalk.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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160Many Lives Lost. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 41, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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