WITHOUT WARNING.
A HUNDRED PERISH hN A STORM.
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 10, lO.ul) p.m. • 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 frozen. Altogether sixty perished.
GALE AT 150 MILES AN HOUR.
Received 11, 12.30 a.ni. St. John's, June 10. More than a hundred lives were lost in the storm-swept Bay of Chulcur 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 capain of the schooner Warren lias arrived in port from Shippegan. He states that tho wind blew at the rate of 150 miles an hour, and no one could walk the deck. At tlic height of tlhe gale, seaweed was flung as high as the top of tho masts, and a double length of iron chain holding the si'hoojier to tlie wharf snapped like chalk.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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163WITHOUT WARNING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 20, 11 June 1914, Page 5
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