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Show The Xovii Ncotia Storm. Halifax, 31. By the recent storm, it w;ts estimated that over one hundred hun-dred buildings have been destroyed in Carso and vicinity, entailing a loss of over $100,000. At Carso, every ship in the harbor is high and dry, and every wharf and fishing establishment establish-ment has been swept away, and the debris lines the entire shore. The public hall there is aheap of splinters in which is burial a splendid organ. All buildings, public and private, are more or less injured. The Catholic j Chapel is a ruin. The fishermen have lost all. Many of them had to llee from their dwellings, with their children, nakedjout into the pitiless storm. Out of a fleet of 300 fishing vessels only twenty remain. Several fishermen have lost in fishing upwards up-wards of a thousand dollars each. One schooner lies 100 feet above the low water mark, |