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Show WHARVES DEMOLISHED. Ico Fields Break Up, Causing Considerable Consid-erable Damage. VINEYARD HAVEN. Mass., Feb. IS. Tho expected breakup of thc great Ice field at tho head of tho harbor, In which nlno schooners had been hold fast for more than two weeks, began at 1 o'clock this morning, whon n portion of the field broko away and carried ashore tho British schooner ur-Ha from New London, Conn,, to St. Johns. N F. All thc wharves on the west side of the harbor with tho exception ex-ception of the steambcat wharf wero demolished de-molished At 2 o'clock a high southerly rale prevailed, with considerably warmer veathor. nnd .t Is expected that the balance bal-ance of tho field, with other Ice-bound schooners, would start. |