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fi shing grounds was badly battered, and lost her foresail and one of her seine boats. The EDMUNDS a Fine Craft Gloucester, Massachusetts, September


17. – The Gloucester schooner, GEORGE F. EDMUNDS carried a crew of about 15 men. The EDMUNDS, which left Gloucester about three weeks ago, on a mackerel fi shing trip along the Maine coast, was one of the largest schooners sailing from this port. She was owned by Capt. Willard Poole of this city and was commanded by Capt. Joseph Graham. The EDMUNDS was built at Essex, Massachusetts, in 1887, and was named in honor of the former U. S. senator from Vermont. She registered 140 tons gross and 110 net. She was 96 feet in length, 25 in breadth and 10 feet deep. Up to 10 o’clock Thursday morning the


owner had not received the named of those of the crew who were lost. It was not even known then how many of the EDMUNDS’ men had been saved. Relatives of Capt. Poole in this


city received a communication from Damariscotta Friday forenoon announcing that the captain had been lost. A peculiar feature of the wreck was that Capt. Poole lost his life within three miles of his birthplace which was at Bristol, Maine. He was 64 years old and is survived by a son and daughter. The son is Willard C. Poole who is in business for himself here. A brother of Capt. Poole is Samuel G. Poole, one of the principal owners of the American Halibut company. Numerous relatives reside in Boothbay and vicinity. The EDMUNDS was valued at about


$10,000 and was insured for $8,500. As soon as news of the disaster had been received work was at once begun here on preparing a list of the crew, a diffi cult task in view of the fact that a number of new men were taken on the last trip and that the owner perished with his vessel. Capt. Jas. Graham, formerly commanded


the EDMUNDS, but when she left port about the later part of August, Capt. Graham did


not go with her, he having been transferred to another vessel. The names of the crew, so far as ascertained, are as follows: Capt. Willard G. Poole, Edward Taylor,


Edward Carrigan, native of Sand Point, N. S.; Wm. R. Parks, native of Sand Point; Lewis R. Perry, A. F. Brown, Peter Merchant, E. Taylor, Anton Hanson, Edward Langley, E. McLeod B. Parsons, Wm. Hickey, Frank Hayden, Chas. Spinney, John F. Poole. The Storm in Maine


Portland, September 17. A storm of such intensity that its parallel


is not recorded in the local weather bureaus, statistics for any previous September, swept along the Maine coast early Thursday, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Thus far 15 deaths and two schooners totally wrecked as a direct result of the storm have been reported, dozens of vessels wholly or partly exposed to the gale were more or less seriously damaged, hundreds of shade trees were dismembered and growing crops in the narrow path of the storm suff ered severely. The most serious disasters were reported


from Pemaquid, where the schooners GEORGE L. EDMUNDS of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the SADIE and LILLIE of Machias were cast upon the rocks of Pemaquid Point, hopeless wrecks, and 15 of the 19 men, composing both crews, lost their lives. Two of the shipwrecked sailors owe their lives to the heroic eff orts of Weston Curtis, who unaided, saved them from death in the tumbling surf, where their 15 companions were drowned. Tug SPARTAN Abandoned Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September


17. – The British steamship BROOKLINE, which arrived here Thursday from Bocas Del Toro had on board Capt. Chandler and the mate of the tug SPARTAN, who were picked up Thursday off the Delaware Capes. Ten others of the crew were rescued by the fi shing boat IRENE and landed at Anglesea, New Jersey. They had been fl oating about on wreckage for six hours before help reached them.


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SPARTAN’s hawser was washed overboard and became entangled in the wheel causing the vessel to careen and fi ll with water. She was sinking when the crew abandoned her. At the offi ce of


James F. Mann & Co., towboat agents, it was stated that the SPARTAN carried a crew of 15 men. This leaves three missing. The


LARCHMONT Delayed New York,


September 17. – At (?) of the Joy steamship line, the following telegram from the company’s agent at Providence was received Thursday: “4:17 a. m. – LARCHMONT anchored of f Saunderstown, RI Very high wind and a very bad sea. Will advise when sailing.” The PURITAN


of the Fall River line came in two hours late Thursday because of


the thick fog in the lower sound. The Hurricane at Sea


New York, September 17. – Incoming


vessels report rough experiences with the hurricane at sea. The Clyde line steamer CHEROKEE from San Domingo, was in the storm during the entire voyage from Turks island to this port. The gulf stream, its force was terrifi c and Wednesday the steamer was hove to for four hours in an 80 mile wind. The MARAVAL from Trinidad and GRENANDA had similar experience. Neither ship sustained damage. The Canadian steam yacht GUNDREDA


arrived Thursday from Sydney, C. B. The GUNDREDA did not experience much of the hurricane, but had a terrifi c sea.


18 September 1903 Wrecked on Schoodic Point Ellsworth Schooner YREPA Lost Thursday Noon – The Crew Saved


High tide – 8:15 p.m. Thursday; 8:45 a.m., 9:15 p.m. Friday Bar Harbor, September 18. Capt. Fred Segebarth and four sailors


of the schooner YREPA of Ellsworth had a very narrow escape from death Thursday noon when the YREPA went ashore in a dense fog on Schoodic Point and was totally wrecked. The YREPA which is of 114 tons set was an Ellsworth schooner and was owned by Whitcomb, Haynes & Company, the large lumber concern of Ellsworth Falls, had carried a cargo of staves to Rondout and was returning light. She left Boston and had a good trip until Wednesday morning when the fog shut down very thick. Wednesday evening she experienced a severe gale and for eight hours was hove to. The YREPA had great diffi culty in keeping afl oat through the night and lost her foremast head. She was proceeding Thursday forenoon under the single reefed mainsail and jib when she run on Schoodic Point on the place that is known as the Southwest gap. Capt. Segebarth had lost his reckoning


owing to the thick fog but had he known would have been unable to keep the vessel off the rocks owing to his crippled condition. When the vessel struck she went pretty high on the rocks and the crew jumping on the rocks found safety. Had the vessel gone ashore in the night, all hands would surely have been lost. Capt. Segebarth said that in 10 minutes there was not a piece of the schooner left as large as a trunk. After the vessel struck and the men had


gone ashore, the captain ventured back in an attempt to save some things from his cabin and got very nearly drowned as the waves dashed over the vessel and dashed her to pieces so rapidly that he had barely time to emerge from the wreck of the house after entering. Capt. Segebarth lost $160 in cash and


all the men lost all their clothes and eff ects. The vessel was valued at about $2,000 and was not insured. The men went to Winter Harbor and


were brought across to Bar Harbor Friday morning by Capt. Parker of the RUTH. They left here Friday afternoon for their homes in Ellsworth.


1 October 1903


Barkentine ERO in Bangor with 16 Shipwrecked Sailors


From Schooner VENGEUR The Italian barkentine ERO arrived


in Bangor late Wednesday afternoon from London, England, with 16 shipwrecked sailors from the French schooner VENGEUR of St. Pierre el Miquelon. The ERO took the men from the French schooner in latitude 43.3, north; longitude, 50.6 west, which is about 1,000 miles east of Newfoundland.


The VENGEUR was a small two-


masted, 60 ton French schooner manned by 16 men, all of whom were rescued. She sprung a leak in the storm of September 14, straining her stern so that pumping was of no avail. The gale started in the southeast and work around to southwest and then to northwest. By the night of the 14th


the little


vessel was in a bad way. She was sighted early in the day of


September 15 by the ERO and her fl ag at half mast was made out at noon. The course of the ERO was altered and about 5 o’clock in the afternoon she was brought up in the wind and the Frenchmen put out in their dories. The wind had gone down but an extremely heavy sea was running and it was with some diffi culty that the men were taken safely on board the big steel barkentine. The VEAGEUR was set on fi re so as not


to be a menace to navigation. She was owned in St. Pierre which port she left September 1 for a fi shing ground. The men lost practically all of their eff ects, saving only the clothes in which they were at the time and a few boxes of biscuit. A Picturesque Looking Set. When seen on board the ERO at


Crosby’s wharf, just below High head, Wednesday, the fi shermen presented the most picturesque appearance of any lot of men seen in Bangor for a good while. The ERO was met by Rowland W. Stewart, the ERO’s broker and Dr. G. M. Woodcock, port physician. The ERO carries 13 men including


Capt. A. Recetto and with the crew of the VENGEUR and Capt. Brouard of the French fi sherman, they were the hardiest, healthiest looking set of men who have been in these waters for a long time. The Frenchmen were dressed in their native clothes which they wore when taken off the schooner. Many had a sort of fl at ram-o-shanter effect for a hat, blouses and large full trousers, while several wore wooden shoes or sabots. Others had high, leather boots, which came above the knees and were as stiff as an inch plank, the soles being studded with big brass nails. Wanted a French Consul.


Capt. Brouard of the FRENCHMAN


is a fi ne looking specimen of manhood and has been living with Capt. Recerto since the rescue of the men from their watery grave. He cannot speak a word of English and is much depressed over the loss of his schooner.


Several of the men knew a few English


words and asked if a French consul was to be had in Bangor. Rowland W. Stewart, however, has wired the consul in Boston and an answer is expected soon, telling what disposition will be made of telling what disposition will be made of the shipwrecked men. The whole crew, including the captain, are natives of St. Pierre el Miquelon. Two of the sailors are boys, 16 and 17 years of age. The French crew presented a decidedly


diff erent appearance from the Italians, in dress, complexion, stature and manners. The wrecked sailors are very desirous of getting home. A number of them paid a visit to Bangor Thursday morning, where they made quite a sensation walking down Main Street in the road. Following are the names of the rescued


sailors: Eugene, Brouard, master; Edouard Carvin, Henri Helen, Pierre Duval, Jean Brizoulier, Edouard Amiox Louis Deguen, Desire Denis, Tsivore Seravin, Prosper Seravin, Yose Hamon, Auguste Pelan, Jean Andrieux, Charles Durran, Casimere Blanchet, adrien Brouan. Barkentine a Queer Craft.


The ERO is a queer looking craft. She was formerly the British barkenine CAVAN


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