Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-03-24 | Page 2 | Storm King's Record

STORM KINGS KING'S RECORD Calamities Wrought ht n By Winds Wind's Fury FI Along II 1 Coa Coast t. t Boston Doton March 23 Statistics just completed show that four eighty lives were welo lost four fifty four lC-four vessels were wrecked and property ag ng- ag- ag hundreds of thousands of oC dollars In lii value destroyed along the New Nc Jew England coast coat and in iii the maritime provinces during the winter just ended elided Storms have havo been heen extremely severe particularly In lii the tho waters off the tho provinces There the years year's calamities be began an and anti the great great- reat- reat cst est ones have occurred The coast coast- ho wise and d fishing Heels have been heen the I greatest Of or the tIme four fifty I vessels wrecked hm se I have navo been sailing craft crac and amid with one om or 01 two exceptions all have havo ni been schooner schoon schoon- er ers Nine steamships and eight barges harges complete tho ho list The wor worst t disaster ter was the foundering of the steamer British King bound hound from New York to Antwerp which wept we down cown oft off of Sable island carrying about twenty of the tIme crew with her hel