Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — MERCILESS OCEAN GALES. [ARTICLE]

MERCILESS OCEAN GALES.

Two More Vessels and Twenty-four Lives Added to the List of Lost. IDispatch from Gloucoster, Mass.] Two more vessels, with orews numbering twenty-four persons, which sailed early In November, are added to the long roll of those which sank in the terrific November galea 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. Patrlok O’Neil, who leaves a widow aud three children: the cook, Jamea Ryan, and John Keogh, who leave widows; John Keogh, William Brennan, John Conners, Abner Larrabee, Isaac E. lsen, who leaves a widow; William Drisooll, Michael Ready, James Galvin, who leaves a widow, and one unknown. The vessel was owned by Cun- , ningham & Thompson and was insured. The schooner Helen M. Davis sailed on a 1 fishing voyage to the western banks Nov. 17, ; with a crew of fourteen men, two of whom, Wesley Brown and Maynard Hiltz, were swamped early In toe 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 in the gale. Their names are Capt. Archie McDonald, William Nrnting, Duncan’McDonald, Joseph McMaster, Victorious McDona.d, Jeffrey Dooney, James Murphy, Augustus Hiltz, Alexander Scnnlan, Edward Coffers, Allen McLane, one unknown. They were mostly young-men and natives ©f-Gape Breton, The vessel was owned by George Dennis, and was insured. | The above vessels increase the loss by the November gales to nine vessels and 115 men, gust gale, mai.es a total of twelve vessels and 149 men, leaviug, as far as yet ascertained, . thirty-four widows and thirty-eight fatherless children.