HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
A FURIOUS GALE. lEON CHAIN SNAPPED LIKE CHALK. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. ST. JOHNS (New Brunswick), June 10. More than one hundred lives were lost in the storm which swept Chaleur Bay on Thursday and Friday of last week. , According to reports, the storm caused the greatest number of fatalities in the history of the North Shore. The captain of the schooner Warren, which arrived to-day from Shippigan, states that the wind blew at the rate of 150 miles an hour. No one could walk the deck at the height of its fury. Seaweed was flung to the top of the masts. A double length of iron chain holding the schooner to the wharf was snapped like a piece of chalk.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 7
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125HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 107, 11 June 1914, Page 7
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