HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 11 June 1914, Page 5

HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

SXJRVTVORS HALF FROZEN. FURY OF THE HURRICANE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.! OTTAWA. June I n . A furious palo acrompanied by liail and .-now I.lpw ynrtrrday on the N>w Rrunswirk coast without warning , . Many \ps?ols ovnrt'.irncil. unci the survivors rrnchod -hnrr half frnzfii. ST. JOHX. -Tnnr 10. Mnrr than 1 no lirr- were lost in a storm that s-wopt Ihr Kay of ("'hulrur nn Thur.-riav and Kriilav of last. «(>pk.

.■.000,-ding lo reports the storm caused the grcatc.-t number ul" fatalities in the history of ihe coast.

Tic "apt am of the schooner Warren has arrived in port from Shippcgan Island. He states that the wind blew at the rate of 1.0 miles an hour. No one could walk the deck. At 1 lie height of the storm seaweed was flung on the topmasts, while a double length of iron chain, holding the schooner to the wharf, was snapped like chalk. WHOLE FLEET WIPED OUT. FISHERS' HOUSES DESTROYED.

(Rceehcd 1.30 p.m.) OTTAWA. June 10. In the House of Commons, Mr J. D. Hazen (Minister of Marine) announced that a cyclone struck the New Brunswick lishing licet, also destroying many fishermen's homes.

Mr Hazen described the disaster as the worst in New Brunswick's history. The small schooner fleet was practically wiped out. The Government was ready to grant assistance when deserving cases were investigated.