Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — MERCILESS OCEAN SALES. [ARTICLE]

MERCILESS OCEAN SALES.

Two More Vessels and Twenty-four ' Lives Added to the List of Lost. [Dispatch from Gloucester, Mass. J Two more vessels, with crews numbering ' twenty-four persons, which sailed ( early In November, are added to the long roll of those which sank in the terrific November gules which swept over the fishing banks. The schooner George H. Pierson sailed for George’s Bank, Nov. 8, with a crew of twelve men. The lost are: Capt. Patrick O’Nell, who leaves a widow and three children: the cook, James Ryan, and John Keogh, who leave widows; John Keogh, William Brennan, John Conners, Abner Larrabee, Isaac E. Isen, who leaves a widow; William Driscoll, Michael Ready, James Galvin, who leaves a widow, and one unknown. The vessel was owned toy Cunningham & Thompson and was insured. The schooner Helen M. Davis sailed on a fishing voyage to the western banks Nov. 17, with a crew of fourteen men, two cf whom, Wesley Brown and Maynard Hilta, were swamped early In the trip, while out In a dory attending to the trawls, and were picked up and safely landed In Halifax, thus leaving twelve who went down with the schooner itj the gale. Their names are Capt. Archie McDonald, William Nutting, Duncan McDonald, Joseph McMaster, Victorious McDonald, Jeffrey Dooney, James Murphy, Augustus Hfitz, Alexander Scanlan, Edward CoDerss Allen McLane, one unknown. They were mostly young* men and natives of Cape Breton. The vessel was owned by George Dennis, and was insured. The above vessels increase the lose by the November gales to nine vessels and 115 men, which, added to three vessels lost in the August gale, makes a total of twelve vessels and 149 men, leaving, as far as yet ascertained, thirty-four widows and thirty-eight fatherless children.