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during the storm, which suddenly disappeared, aud, it is thought, foun- 

 dered. The Benry Wilson, during her passage into St. John's, reports 

 having passed through a quantity of wreckage, consisting of planks, 

 dories, &C, aud saw a St. Peter's vessel with her bow stove in and sails 

 blown away. The Henry Wilson, while entering the harbor, struck on 

 the rocks in the Narrows, where she remained fast for about two hours. 

 Sin- sustained hut little damage, and has been docked for repairs. The 

 schooner J. II. Higgins, Captain Stevens, of this port, from Flemish 

 Cap, lias also arrived at St. John's for repairs. The gale struck her 

 while at anchor in latitude 4G° 40', longitude 45° 10'. She went adrift 

 and lost all her fishing gear. Three of her dories were stove and her 

 foresail was split. She left here April G and had 130,000 pounds of cod- 

 fish and 0,000 of flitched halibut. The crew are all well. The schooners 

 Spencer F. Baird and H. A. Duncan, both of this port, are at St. John's 

 with loss of fishing gear, the former with loss of anchor and six hundred 

 hooks, and had her jib-boom carried away, and the latter had her decks 

 swept and foresail split. A number of Beverly vessels are at St. John's, 

 more or less damaged by the gale, among them being the Sarah B. Put- 

 nam, Captain Larkin, and the D. A. Wilson, Captain Foster. The gale 

 struck the former in latitude 45°, longitude 52°. Her bulwarks were 

 stove and her decks swept, but fortunately without much loss. She 

 sailed from Beverly April 14, and has about five hundred quintals of 

 fish. The crew are ail well. The D. A. Wilson had a narrow escape 

 from colliding with a French bark, which broke adrift, and Captain 

 Foster only saved the schooner from foundering by cutting her cable. 

 She had her decks swept by a heavy sea and lost four dories and had 

 her bulwarks badly stove. She will repair aud refit and return to the 

 Banks. A great deal of apprehension is felt by owners here for the re- 

 mainder of the large fleet of fishermen from this port not yet heard from, 

 but it is hoped that the above disasters will cover the losses; yet the 

 large quantities of floats seen upon the Banks causes much anxiety for 

 the rest of the fleet,— June 23, 1885. 



Receipts of fish at Gloucester, Mass., June, 1885. 



