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Buildings near the water front were flooded in lower floors, ware- 

 houses were destroyed, everywhere signs of destruction met the eye, 

 slips, coves and beaches were filled with debris from the wreckage. 



On the west side shipyards and valuable weirs were destroyed. At 

 Sand Point, now the terminus of the C.P.R. some wooden houses were 

 badly wrecked, the inmates barely escaping to safety. All along the 

 west shore of Courtenay Bay, wharves, abutments and fish houses were 

 washed away and one side of a foundry blown in by force of the gale. 

 A little outside of the city unstable wooden buildings were unroofed 

 and blown down. 



In Charlotte County and the adjacent United States Coast the gale 

 was most severe. One hundred and twenty-one vessels were beached 

 near St. Andrews, N.B., Calais, Machias and Eastport, Me. Near Point 

 Lepreaux the Barque Genii was wrecked and eleven lives lost. 



St. Andrews and St. George suffered to a great extent, houses were 

 unroofed, completely demolished and streets blocked with debris of the 

 gale. At the latter place the roof of a volunteer armoury was carried to 

 a distance of lOO yards. Spire of Episcopal Church at St. Stephen was 

 blown over and the building badly wrecked. A church at Milltown 

 destroyed and the railway bridge blown into the falls. 



On the islands of this county. Grand Manan, Deer and Campobello, 

 wind and tide was the cause of much damage; on the latter island alone 

 some eighty buildings composed of sheds, barns and fish houses were 

 destroyed. 



In York County there was some unroofing and wreckage to buildings. 

 In this as well as Charlotte County whole acres of forest trees were up- 

 rooted and in the woods of these counties traces may yet be seen of the 

 great storm. 



The high tide at St. John backed up the river to such an extent that 

 it rose upwards of three feet at Fredericton. On the St. John River 

 near Gagetown in Sunbury County a river steamer had her upper work 

 carried away by the gale. 



In Albert County the damage from wind and tide was excessive and 

 at that time estimated at nearly a quarter of a million dollars. 



Westmorland had a terrific gale and the highest tide ever known, 

 tons of hay destroyed on the marshes, cattle drowned in great numbers, 

 whole barns and their contents carried away, telegraph line destroyed 

 and the roads made impassable. From "Tide Levels and Datum Planes 

 in Eastern Canada" by Dr. W. Bell Dawson, it may be seen that the 

 water level at Moncton was nearly six and a half feet above former or 

 subsequent records. 



