NOVEMBER 23 1929


Delegation From Burin Meets Cabinet Yesterday

Discuss with Government Relief measures necessary in Stricken Area- 
Will Meet Board of Trade This Afternoon

TELL THRILLING STORIES OF TERRIBLE TRAGEDY

A delegation consisting of Hon. G. A. BARTLETT, Rev. Fr. MILLER, P.P. of Burin, and Captain W. H. HOLLETT of Burin arrived in town yesterday morning to meet the government in connection with relief measures necessary to cope with the immediate needs of the stricken area on the Burin Peninsula between Rock Harbor and Lamaline and will meet the Board of Trade this afternoon. Hon. G. A . BARTLETT granted the Daily News an interview last night after the delegation had met a committee of the Executive Government and the board of Trade. Mr. BARTLETT stated that the delegation had been courteously received by the Prime Minister and were deeply indebted to the Government for its prompt action in sending S. S. Meigle to the scene of the disaster.
In connection with the disaster Mr. BARTLETT stated that he estimated the damage to property at a million dollars. Mr BARTLETT was on Board S. S. Daisy after tea on Monday night, when the steamer was lying at the government wharf. Someone on the wharf made an outcry, and he rushed onto the wharf. He saw the water recede first and then come in with a bore. The bore collapsed and the Daisy struck bottom. He immediately went around the harbor to his own premises where he found that his buildings were submerged. His shop measuring 30 by 60 feet, was lifted bodily and deposited 200 feet away, but most of the stock in it was intact. A store with reserve stock damaged. The retail store was damaged in the lower flat, and all flakes carried away and 4,000 quintals of fish were not damaged.
Stepaside was absolutely laid on ruins. Captain W. H. Foote lost his stores, traps and all his fishing gear, being the heaviest loser. At Bulls cove a store owned by LeFEAURE Bros. And containing 150 quintals of fish, collapsed, at Stepaside Mr. And Mrs. INKPEN who were ill, were removed to safety before their home was swept away. At Ship’s Cove the stages and stores of the Burin Import Co., were damaged and the store of Captains W. H. and Thomas HOLLETT badly wrecked with their contents.
Port aux Bras lost seven lives and all property along the waterfront was carried away, including seven fishing boats, together with dories, traps and fishing equipment. Lawrence CHEESEMAN was the greatest sufferer, losing two stores, stages, wharf and flakes, 300 quintals of fish, 60 barrels of flour and 20 barrels of pork and beef. The contour of the harbor has been completely changes and the bottom altered.
Corbin which is three miles west of Burin, is totally swept. A house occupied by Luke COADY, his wife and two children, was swept out to sea. Mr. COADY tried to get the door of the house open and whilst doing so the house came back to shore and was swept out the second time, again the house went out and just as it came back to shore the door was wrenched open and with his two children under his arm and his wife clinging to his back he jumped to safety. Epworth and Burin Bay Arm suffered no damage.
Hon. Mr. BARTLETT spoke in the highest terms of the works of S. S. Daisy Captain WHELAN and Inspector J. H. DEE, and emphasized the fact that the Daisy in the work she had done bringing relief to the suffering, had absolutely justified her existence on the coast. Within half an hour of tidal wave the Daisy was away from the wharf her mission picking up those who had been washed to sea, and also their belongings and bringing others to safety.


INSPECTOR DEE OF S. S. DAISY REPORTS.

The following report of the disaster was received by the Deputy Minister of Customs
yesterday from Mr. J. H. Dee, inspector of Revenue Service:--

(Copy)

S. S. Daisy
Crossing Placentia Bay
November 21, 1929

Sir:- On Monday the 18th, at 5.05 p.m. an eruption of the earth occurred which was felt along the coast. At 8 p.m. a tidal wave raised to a height of 15 feet over the highest spring tide, swept the coast. At Burin all fishing stages, flakes, small stores and many dwellings were carried away and many lives lost.
At Port au Bras the following lost their homes:- Jerry Cheeseman, Joseph Cheeseman, Thomas Brenton, Henry Dibbon, of John, John S. Dibbon, John William Allen, George Abbott, W. H. Clarke, Thomas W. Cheeseman.

At Kelly’s Cove:- Vincent Kelly, Alfred Cooper, Wm. Brushett.

The death list at Burin and Port au Bras is :- 

Kelly’s cove:- Mrs. Vincent Kelly and her daughter, aged 14 years.
Port au bras:- Mrs. Jessie fudge, and three daughters, viz: Gertrude, aged 15 years, Hannah M., aged 11years, Harriett, aged 9 years: Mrs. Mary Bennett, aged 55 years, Mrs. Wm. Bennett, aged 55 years; Mrs. Wm Allen, aged 84 years; Henry Dibbon, of John, aged 50 years.
Captain Whelan and crew of the S. S. Daisy rendered all the assistance humanly possible locating drifting dwellings and searching for people. We towed one house to Burin. On Tuesday in a southeasterly storm we salved four schooners at Port au Bras; others on the bottom to be attended to when weather permits. Yesterday- Wednesday - we went to Lamaline to investigate, but could not land. We returned to St. Lawrence this morning and met the same result, but landed at Point au Gaul and got report over the telephone, which I herewith append:--
Lamaline:- One man, Thomas Lockyer, Allan’s Island, died of injured received . All stages with their contents swept away. One dwelling house moved about 50 feet.

Point au Gaul:- All fishing property, stages and stores, with 5 cod traps and the peoples provisions, and coal, about 100 tons: also 3 dwellings houses with 8 lives, viz: T. J. Hipditch, married; Thomas Hipditch, age 5 years; H. P. Hipditch, aged 3 years; E. H. Hipditch, aged 8 months; T. Hillier, married, (Oil Inspector); Irene Hillier, age not ascertained; Mrs. Eliza Walsh, Miss M. A. Walsh, spinster.

Taylor’s Bay:- 15 families homeless. All fishing property, stages and stores with all the people’s provisions and winter coals swept away and five lives lost viz: Mrs. Robert Bonnell and child. Bartholomew BonnelL and two children

Lord’s Cove:- All fishing property with provisions and coal gone and four lives lost, viz: Mrs. Patrick Rennie and 3 children.

Lawn:- All fishing property with most of the boats and dories , provisions and coal gone. No lives lost.

St Lawrence:- No lives lost, but all stages, flakes, stores and their contents of fish, fishing gear, provisions and coal, leaving nothing but dazed people and a scene of desolation. The loss is up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and all the people are absolutely destitute. I have personally investigated conditions and am convinced that if relief is not forthcoming quickly, consequence will be serious.
I am, sir,
Your obedient servant.
(Sgd) J. H. DEE
Inspector of Revenue Service.


FISHERIES MINISTER WIRES PREMIER
The minister of marine and fisheries wired the prime Minister yesterday evening from Burin as follows:---
Arrived Burin three thirty p.m. Great destruction property everywhere. Many stores and houses floating in water. Great destruction reported by Magistrate everywhere. Several reports of injury at Burin. Dealing with the situation . Will keep you advise.

H. B. C. LAKE

(To Deputy Minister Customs)
Grand Bank, Nov. 19- Earthquake shock felt here about 5 o’clock last evening followed later by sort of tidal wave sweeping two small vessels from moorings breaking bowspirts against concrete bridge. No other damage.
COLLECTOR.

SPECIAL TO NEWS
Burin, Nov. 22.- (Special to Editor Daily News)- Terrible loss of property, practically all waterfront properties destroyed from Roch Harbor to Lamaline. No estimate yet made of loss. Understand others have wired you.- T. V. HOLLETT



RELIEF SHIP MEIGLE AT BURIN YESTERDAY

Scenes of Desolation Greet Eyes of Relief Party-Destitution Everywhere. Houses and Stores
Floating on Water or Stranded on Beaches

DOCTORS AND NURSES BUSY AIDING SHOCKED OR INJURED

In a message to the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Dr. MOSDELLstated that the S. S. Meigle arrived at Burin at 3.30 yesterday afternoon. He reported the shores of Burin beach strewed with wreckage of all sorts. Houses and stores floating in waters of the harbor and dotted along the beach partially or wholly submerged. Stages and wharves swept away in almost every Cove and Harbor. Destitution general wherever tidal wave did its work of destruction. Food, fuel and clothing badly needed. Stores of food on ship sufficient to present requirements. Medical and nursing staff on the ship were busy attending number of cases of severe injury and of shock consequent on sudden and tragic nature of disaster. With others he was busy organizing relief and investigation committees in every place.

Magistrate HOLLETT Makes Urgent Appeal for Prompt Relief.

Will Form Committee of Citizens in Day or Two Food Clothing and Coal

THE GREAT NECESSITIES

From Magistrate HOLLETT to the (Prime Minister)
Burin , November 20th, 1929

Sir- I have done my best to get in touch with you relative to get great tidal wave, which swept our coast from Point may to Rock Harbor. Information just hand states that 13 lives were lost at Lamaline and 6 at Lord’s Cove. No doubt but that property damage west of here has been great. Nearly all waterside premises at Great Burin, Stepaside, Kelly’s Cove, Kirby’s Cove, Ship cove, Burin, North, Path Ebd, Bull’s Cove, Port au Bras and Mortier was taken down and mostly destroyed. Three dwellings houses at Kelly’s Cove were swept away in one of which was Mrs. Vincent Kelly and her daughter, whose bodies have not been recovered. Manuel Inkpen’s dwelling house on Stepaside was swept away. Mr. Inkpen and his wife escaped by merest chance.
At Port au Bras 11 dwellings houses were swept clean away. seven people lost their lives here, Mrs. Thomas FUDGE and her three daughters, Mrs. Samuel BENNETT and her brother Henry DIBBON and Mrs. William ALLEN aged 84. The bodies of Mrs. ALLEN, Mrs. FUDGE and her daughter Harriet Mary (10) and Mrs. Samuel BENNETT were recovered. to-day.
Port au Bras was swept clean of all fishery premises and boats and schooners. Fourteen boats were lost or badly damaged. Al is desolation in Port au bras. L Cheeseman’s premises went clean away-with 300 quintals fish . About 500 quintals fish were lost there altogether. All the people had their winter’s provisions , fuel , traps and gear of every description in their stores. Everything is gone. I visited them to-day. There is great distress. There are not 5 barrels flour in the place and no coal.
At Mortier too much damage was done. At Lance L’Eau William MOULTON’s house was washed away and Mr. MOULTON and his family hardly escaped with their lives.
It was at 5.05 p.m. 18th when the earth tremors started and lasted but one minute and a half minutes. The buildings were shaken to their foundations and the earth trembled. Everybody was more or less terrified.. At 7.35 the tidal wave struck us. It was terrific and swept everything before it. at first the harbors and coves went almost dry almost instantaneously and then the wave came in with a roaring sound. There were two or three waves but the first came the highest. To give you an idea of its force, G. BARTLETT’s shop was washed 100 yards up into the meadow.
Every bridge is washed away. The water went 5 to 8 inches up on the government Store. It is impossible as yet to estimate the property damage in Burin and vicinity.
The S. S. Daisy which was lying at the government wharf had been rendering every assistance since the affair happened. All Monday night they were searching among the houses which went out to sea, for missing people. All day yesterday in a raging south east gale and heavy sea she was doing the impossible with regard to salving boats and schooners. The officers and crew deserve the greatest credit for the work they have done. Nearly every boat afloat of course was out of commission. I asked the Captain of the Daisy to go to St. Lawrence and Lamaline today and expect her here to-night. I fear there is great destruction between here and Lamaline. At present all communication is cut off but the operator Mr. COX is making every effort to establish communication with outlying settlements and with St. John’s.
I shall endeavor to get some data with regard to the losses with regard to the distress It is imperative that something be done at once to relieve the immediate wants of the many people. I shall form a Committee of some of the citizens hero in a day or so. In the meantime I shall have to get food, clothing and coal to many families.
I hope to send this to you by the “Daisy” to Argentia.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
M. HOLLETT.


CAPT. S.S. ARGYLE WIRES NFLD. RAILWAY

(TO GENERAL MANAGER NEWFOUNDLAND RAILWAY)

Burin, Nov. 22, - Called at Lamaline , Point au Gaul, Lord’s Cove, Lawn and St. Lawrence today. Terrible destruction of property at these places also at lance au Barque and Taylor’s Bay. One life lost at Lamaline, eight , Point au Gaul, five Taylor’s bay, and four Lord’s Cove. Most all bodies recovered. All fishing premises here and floating property completely destroyed. People at Point au Gaul, Lord’s Cove, destitute. Also at Taylor’s Bay. At Corbin, O’Reilly and Coady lost all including homes. James HEARN, at Lord’s Cove, lost 1,000 quintals of fish and all property and McL HARNETT 600 qtls. of fish and all property including his home. Giovanini’s stores containing 1,600 quintals of fish sank in harbor at St. Lawrence. All waterfront property gone here. Lawn also suffered terribly . Most of the people lost all their supplies. The southeast places all need relief quickly as possible as all supplies held by merchants are gone. Burin, Port au bras and rock harbor also suffered. Eight lives were loss at Burin and Port au Bras, and all waterfront property and several homes swept away.
F.S. WHELAN, S. .S ARGYLE. 




Messages of Sympathy Re Quake Disaster

New York, Nov 22 1929

Rt. Rev. MacDERMOTT,
St. John’s.Nfld.
Read in to-days paper New York of Burin Peninsula disaster have wired sympathy to Pastors and people . If subscription list opened kindly advise and I shall be glad to forward subscription. Please give publicity to my deep sympathy with all sufferers.
E. P. ROCHE.




Ottawa, Ontario.

Monsignor Roche,
Archbishop of St. John’s Nfld.

Tidal wave which ravaged several districts of Newfoundland after Monday earthquake made on my heart very deep impression. Please accept the sentiments of my sincere sympathy with the Apostolic Blessings for you and the people of the Island.

CASSULO
Apostolic Delegate.

This message of His excellency the Apostolic delegate has been repeated to His Grace, the Archbishop.


November 22nd, 1929
Magistrate HOLLETT,
Burin
Will you please convey to those who are sufferers through the catastrophe that has just befallen Burin and its vicinity, the heartfelt sympathy of myself and those associated with me.
You may rely upon the practical sympathy and assistance of all classes in the alleviation of the sorrow and loss so many are now going through

F. C. ALDERDICE.

Replay

F. C. ALDERDICE
St. John’s.
On behalf of whole people from Rock Harbor to Lamaline I thank you for you kind message of sympathy. Twenty-seven lives have been lost so far and all is desolation along the waterfront.
MAGISTRATE HOLLETT

November 22, 1929
C. C. Pittman Esq.
Lamaline
Though you I desire to assure all the people of those who are sufferers through the catastrophe that visit Lamaline and vicinity Monday evening last of the deep sympathy of myself and of my associates.
The hearts of the whole country goes out to those who are now in bereavement and affliction and you may be assured of a ready sympathy and response of their needs.
F.C. ALDERDICE


NO LOSS LIFE AND LITTLE DAMAGE AT GRAND BANK

(COPY)

Grand bank, November 19, 1929

Deputy Minister Customs,
St. John’s

Earthquake shock felt here about 5 o’clock last evening followed later by sort of tidal wave sweeping two small vessels from mooring breaking bowsprits against concrete bridge. No other damage.

COLLECTOR.

S.S. Home sails at noon today for regular ports on the Fogo route to Change Islands



NOVEMBER 24 1929

SCORE OF PERSONS ARE CROWDED IN ONE HOUSE

Loss of Homes makes Congestion Difficult Problem In Stricken Area Some Families
Being Moved to Help situation-Survivors Dazed by Terrible Experience.

Many Tales of Heroism and Uncomplaining Patience

(To Colonial Secretary from Dr. H. M. MOSDELL)

S.S. Meigle. Lawn, Nov. 23- Members of the relief expedition to sufferers from the disastrous effects of the earthquake shock and tidal wave on the South West coast spent a busy evening at Burin. While the return of the revenue cutter Daisy from Argentia was awaited local committees were organized to take care of distribution of food supplies, of fuel and of housing conditions.

TAKE CENSUS

Arrangements were made for an extent census of the tremendous property damage done between Rock Harbor and Corbin. The Daisy reached Burin at nine o’clock, and was instructed to proceed in the bay with supplies for sufferers from the disaster. After discharging this mission she was to assist the fishermen in salving as much of their property as possible, especially the boats that were stranded by the tidal wave. Evidence of the great effects of the disaster are strewn along the rocks and strand on every hand. The task of relief is an immense one viewed from any and every angle. The relief ship Meigle left Burin at four O'clock this morning en route to the scene of the greatest disaster at Point aux Gaul and at Taylor’s Bay. It was hoped to reach the former place at dawn, but the expedition ran into a blizzard shortly after leaving Burin and the ship had to steam slowly through thick weather and heavy seas reaching Point aux Gaul at eight thirty. Conditions found at Point aux Gaul and Taylor’s Bay were indescribable. A scene of destruction and desolation lay on every hand . Water fronts were stripped of all sorts of property. Boats, stores, houses and stages gone with stores of food, fuel and fishing equipment.

HOUSING CONGESTION

At the former place almost one hundred buildings were utterly destroyed and thirty-five motor boats out of thirty-eight formerly operated by the fishermen of the place. At Taylor’s Bay eleven dwellings were destroyed leaving only five in the place. Into the remaining buildings have had to crowed all the surviving population, resulting in a fearful and dangerous congestion of houses. Eighteen and twenty persons crowded into a single small dwelling. Arrangements made to make three families away from the settlement and send to relatives and friends elsewhere. Damaged houses will also be repaired, and overcrowding still further relieved in this manner. Local committees organized to take care of the situation on the section between Lord’s Cove and High Beach, Lamaline. 

SENDING SCHR TO SYDNEY FOR COAL

Stock of food and supplies of material for repairing houses landed at Point aux Gaul for distribution throughout this area. Shortage of fuel forced the expedition to take charge of supplies of coal in this section and arrange for schooners to proceed at once to North Sydney for a further quantity of fuel. Medical members of expedition have been kept busy visiting and treating all cases of injury in the stricken area and have afforded relief to a large number of persons. Many suffering from bruises and contusions, dislocations and shock and the general effects of their extremely trying exposure. S. S. Meigle is now at Lawn when she will harbor for tonight, proceeding to Lord’s Cove and Lamaline to-morrow to resume relief operations. Two representative committees so far organized, one for Burin area under the chairmanship of Magistrate HOLLETT and the other for the Lamaline section under C. C. PITTMAN, J. P. 



From Minister Marine and Fisheries

Prime Minister

Burin, Nov. 23-Have landed sufficient provisions to take care of immediate situation at Burin and have competent committee formed to handle the situation in charge of Magistrate Hollett. Leaving for Point aux Gaul and Taylor’s Bay during the night as this most destitute area. Very little medical needs.
(Sgd. H. B. C. LAKE.)

From Magistrate Hollett to Prime Minister.

Burin, Nov. 23.-On behalf of our people I thank you for what had been done. Provisions landed from Meigle being distributed amongst destitute. Doctors have attended all cases shock and injury from Rock Harbor to Corbin. Meigle left 4 a.m. for west where destitution greatest. Bodies of Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. Fudge, Mrs. Allen and Harriett Fudge of Port au Bras recovered. Daisy endeavoring to salve boats. 160 tons coal ready for distribution by committee here and clothing being supplied where absolutely essential. Details re value lost property being collected.
MAGISTRATE HOLLETT

(Minister marine and Fisheries to Prime Minister)
“Meigle”, Lawn, November 23- Visited point aux Gaul and Taylor’s Bay today, remaining at Lawn tonight. Conditions at both the above settlements are appalling, with not a vestige of waterside property left. Had to land provisions in the steamer’s boat. Men, women and children are bewildered from the shock with little desire to start work, as their lifetime earnings have gone. Provisions have been handle and a committee formed to handle the situation. At Point aux Gaul one body has not been yet recovered. At Taylor’s bay only five houses are habitable out of seventeen formerly occupied. Had to take women and five children aboard the “Meigle” and will house them at Fortune. There are still three bodies at Taylor’s Bay not recovered. This is the worst place on the whole coast and the tidal wave was between eighty to a hundred feet high, which carried everything in its way. Houses were shifted in every direction and some completely destroyed. Visiting Lord’s Cove to-morrow. Am ordering 10,000 feet of lumber for shipment to Taylor’s Bay immediately . Dr. MOSDELLis wiring Dr. BARNES more detailed particular.-H. B. C. Lake.

(Minister Marine and Fisheries to Prime Minister)

Lord’s Cove, Nov. 24-Spent last night at Lawn. Conditions there are very bad; heavy loss of property but no lives and no accidents. Arrived at Lord’s Cove at daylight. Conditions here are deplorable; heavy loss of property and four lives lost. All bodies recovered. Much destruction everywhere. Now landing supplies. Houses here washed hundreds of yards inland and many swept to sea. Visiting Lamaline later to-day and due St. Lawrence to-night, where I understand property loss is heaviest, but no loss of life. H. B. C. LAKE.


Mr. Winter Leaving For Port au Bras
COMMITTEE FORMED AT BURIN AND MET SATURDAY

From Mr. J. A. WINTER, M .H. A ., to Mr. ALDERDICE.

Burin, November 23-S. S. Meigle with Government ministers has proceeded to Lamaline. Am staying here at present. Committee formed and met this morning and dealt with urgent matters. Am just leaving for Port au Bras where loss of life and property heaviest. Nothing new since Lake’s report of yesterday.
(Sgd) J. A. WINTER.


UNITED CHURCH SENDS PRAYERFUL SYMPATHY

Moderator And Secretary of United Church of Canada Cable From Toronto

(To Rev. J. G. Joyce, Secretary United Church Conference St. John’s)

Toronto, Ont., Nov. 23-Please convey to Burin people the deepest sympathy of the whole United Church with sufferers through earthquake calamity, and assure them our united prayer for divine upholding.

W. T. GUNN, Moderator,
T. Albert MOORE, Secretary,
United Church of Canada.


Nonia Will Welcome Clothing and Blankets

LADY MIDDLETON ASKS THAT SUCH BE SENT TO NONIA DEPOT

As President of the Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association I desire to make it known to those, who are willing to assist, that arrangements have been made for receiving at the NONIA Depot in Water Street articles of warm clothing and blankets which are urgently required for distribution to those who have suffered from the recent destructive inundation in Burin and other districts on the South Coast.

MabelL MIDDLETON
President


Mrs. WINTER Sending Shipment Wednesday

Wife of Representative of Burin West Invites Contribution of Blankets and Clothing.

Editor Daily News.
Dear Sir.- The message received from my husband, Mr. J A. WINTER, member of Burin East, about the terrible tragedy last week in both Burin East and Burin West, make it clear that, apart from the general help which will be given from public subscription and Government assistance in the near future, there is a demand for bedding and warm cloths of all kinds to be sent and distributed at once. I am sure that the people of the stricken area will be deeply grateful for any help of this kind that can be given immediately. I am therefore arranging for the dispatch of a quality of bedding and clothing of all kinds by steamer leaving on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Any person who has blankets or cloths of any size or kind which they would wish to contribute will be doing a kindness. If they telephone either to me at 586 or to my husband’s office, 300, and I will make arrangements to call for them and to see to their distribution amongst those cases those claims are most urgent.
The main matter to bear in mind is the necessity for speedy relief of this kind. 
Yours faithfully,
Evangeline WINTER, 

Address: Mrs. J. A. WINTER
Winter Avenue.


Resolution of Sympathy

Resolution From Leeming Lodge, No. 1282, L.O.A.

At a meeting of Leeming Lodge, No. 1282, held at Victoria Hall, St. John’s, on Tuesday, November 21st, the following resolution was adopted and requested to be published in the newspaper published in St. John’s.
Whereas heavy damages and great loss of life have been experienced on the South West Coast of Newfoundland as a result of the recent earthquake followed by a very destructive tidal wave, and whereas great suffering and distribution have been brought to a large number on the said South-west coast.
Be it resolved that this Lodge places itself on record as expressing its very deepest sympathy with those who have suffered, particularly in the loss of relatives and friends, and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be published in the following newspapers, Daily News, and Telegram.

J.K. HUDSON,
Recording Secretary


Extends Sympathy for Distress Folk

The Daily New: 
Dear Sirs:- The following message has been received from commissioner James HAY, Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland:- 
“Distressed over sad loss of life in earthquake and tidal wave. Extend deepest sympathy families and districts affected”. The Salvation Army places itself at the disposal of Government for relief measures.
Yours sincerely,
N. PITCHER,
Major, General Secty.



Tim SHANNAHAN Tenders Sympathy

When the tremor of the earthquake has subsided , we at Tucker’s sat comparing notes, in a humorous way, little thinking at the time that a terrible tidal wave was causing appalling disaster to lives and property at Burin, and neighboring settlements in its wake.
We tender to the stricken people our sincere sympathy, and enclose five dollars as a subscription to the relief fund.
Tim SHANNAHAN


For Relief Fund

From Mr. J. B. ORR, New York, to Hon. G. A. BARTLETT

New York, November 23-Extremely sorry to hear of your great loss and terrible suffering of so many. Anything my firm can do for you will be pleasure. Present this wire to my office and they will give you one hundred dollars on my personal account for your relief fund.-John B. ORR.








NOVEMBER 26, 1929

Tidal Wave and Shock Strong at Salmonier

Haricot Bridge Washed away-Lumber scow and Log Boom Smashed- Mill 
Building towed From Colinet Broken to pieces.


RUMBLING OF QUAKE THOUGH TO BE FIRE


Mr. R. A. CRANFORD who operates a mill at Salmonier, and was in town yesterday , describes the effect of the earthquake and subsequent tidal wave at that settlement. Mr. CRANDORD had just returned to his store in his motor car as the shock began, and it was sufficient to make the whole place tremble so much that people in the store were barely able to keep to their feet. A domestic in his house who was kneeling on a chair looking out the window was thrown backward with the shock. Most people in the settlement took the rumbling to be that of fire, and nearly everyone sought their roofs or ran upstairs. Just before the tidal wave came he was standing on his verandah and notice the water of the bay seething, and while he looked it rose over the wharf. He rushed to his store to move some sugar and other perishables off the floor, but before one barrel of sugar was hoisted out of the way the water was over the floor flooding it to a depth of eight inches, through if receded as rapidly as it had come.
The river went almost dry, and as the bore came in again with what he described as a six foot solid of water, it carried a scow load of cooperage stuff that he had a mile below Hurley’s bridge , spilling its contents into the tide. Booms in which he had about 1200 logs smashed like matches and the logs were lost The water rode up around Mr. Andrew MURRAY’s bungalow and washed lumber up on the flats.
That day Mark GOSS and sons, of Spaniard’s Bay , had towed a sawmill building over from Colinet. The wave smashed this to pieces and only some fragments of it were recovered.
A raft of lumber which Mr. CRANFORD had ready was broken to pieces and only about a thousand of the 21,000 feet which it was supposed to have contained was salved. A steel shaft with pulleys lying near the mill was thrown back a distance of fifteen feet.
A man named GRACE who had a store near the water for the past fifty years , after the wave picked it up nearly out to Little Colinet Island with two dories still attached to it.
Haricot bridge was rolled over by the wave three or four times, up near BYRNES house, and was washed out to sea and has not been seen since. The abutments were torn away with the flood.
Mr. CRANFORD had wired his principals in St. John’s of the occurrence, but in the excitement they had forgotten the matter.






ST. LAWRENCE PEOPLE ARE TERROR STRICKEN AT 
‘QUAKE AND WAVE

Fled To higher Ground, Many Sought Refuge Around Church: Sick Carried To Places
Of Safety.

FATHER THORNE SPENT ENTIRE NIGHT AMONG PEOPLE

St. Lawrence, Nov. 20-On Monday evening, November 18th, St. Lawrence was the scene of a dreadful disaster, occasioned by a tidal wave, which almost entirely destroyed the settlement and wrought much havoc along this section of the South West Coast.
At 4.45 a dreadful rumbling noise was heard, accompanied by a violent trembling of the earth which shook each dwelling to its foundation and lasted about five minutes, to the terror of everyone.
The people became panic-stricken and many forsook their homes, the excitement was intense, and when about two hours later, a terrific roaring of the sea was heard, fear struck the hearts of all. A few minutes after a tremendous wall of water burst into the harbor and swept with irresistible force upon the land, tearing down everything in its way as it rushed along.
The din of roaring waters of shouting people and the breaking up of buildings was terrifying. Many houses were carried bodily inland for a considerable distance, and some of the deposited when the force of the huge wave was broken into splinters. Then with a mighty roar the water receded carrying with them, boats, fishing stages, stores and dwellings. Again and again the dreadful wave rushed in upon the land each one more destructive that the last.
The frightened people fled in a panic to the higher ground. Many sought refuge around the church. The Presbytery and convent were crowed with people, as these buildings were high above the waves. It was a pitiful sight to see people carrying their sick to a place of safety, or surrounded by crying children., and shrieking with dismay, when some loved one was missing, fearing he had been engulfed by the terrible sea, darkness adding to this awful confusion. By ten o’clock the destruction was complete, and the waves settled down to a steady but by no means normal condition. Yet people feared to returned to their homes , many spending the night in neighbors’s houses, in barns and other places of shelter but none dared to sleep.
Next morning sad beyond description was the sight which greeted the wretched people, all their fishing premises, stages, stores, boats, nets, and other gear, as well as the barns of hay, and even their cattle swept away by the pitiless sea, or strewn in fragments upon the shore. Houses, fishing stores, and wreckage of kinds floating upon the still swollen and raging sea. In a blinding storm of wind, sleet and snow, men and boys were trying at the risk of their lives, to rescue some planks or sticks the only remnants of their little property, which represented their all and was the result of their lifelong labors and thrift. All the fishing premises large and small with the exception of two stores were destroyed, many of them filled with fish. All the boats and fishing gear were carried off or thrown in a shapeless mass of wreckage upon the shore. Added to this the provisions for the winter, flour, molasses, meat etc., which were in their stores were also carried off, several homes were destroyed and the people are reduced to a very pitiable condition. As the fishery this year was a poor one only the barest necessaries of life were procurable, and now all is lost.
All that terrible night our indefatigable and ever-resourceful Pastor Very Rev. Father THRONE, went amongst the people, calming the panic-stricken, encouraging the terrified and helping those in distress. Next day he busied himself inspiring hope into the depressed people. In the evening he called them together and in a long address he encouraged them to begin the work of reconstruction by saving the wreckage floating on the harbor, pointing out ways and means by which it could be more successfully accomplished and did all he could to relieve the terrible situation. The erection of the telegraph poles and wires, which were swept away was done under his personal supervision. When communication was established with the neighboring settlements it was learned that Lawn and other places had suffered equally and at Point aux Gaul, Port au Bras, and Lord’s Cove several people were drowned. The fact that no lives were lost here and with the exception of a few bad hurts, no one was seriously injured, is a great cause for thankfulness and a source of resignation to the poor people in their awful affliction.
The estimated cost of damage and loss is in the vicinity of $150,000.




NOVEMBER 27, 1929


South coast Disaster Fund Committee Begin Work 

Deputation Named to Collaborate With Prime Minister to Prevent Overlapping-
Outports will be Appealed to

BURIN DELEGATE APPRECIATES PROMPT RESPONSE TO APPEAL

The committee appointed by the public meeting held at the Pitt’s Memorial Hall on the previous night to undertake the work of raising funds to afford relief to the sufferers in the recent tidal wave disaster, met at the Board of Trade rooms yesterday afternoon and immediately began to organized. There was nearly one hundred per cent attendance.

OFFICERS

Mr. R. F. HORWOOD, president of the Board of Trade, was appointed temporary chairman and Mr. J. G. HIGGINS, secretary. Following some questions it was decided that the organization should have a distinctive name and that of the South Coast Disaster Fund Committee was decided upon. The election of permanent officers followed and resulted in the unanimous selection of Mr. R. F. HORWOOD as chairman, Mr. L C. OUTERBRIDGE, vice-chairman, Mrs. A Milligan, Hon treasurer, and Mr. J. G. HIGGINS, Hon. secretary. These with the chairman of the various sub-committees which are to be appointed will form the executive.
A nominating committee consisting of the above officers and Messrs. C. E. HUNT, C. C. DULEY, and J. S. CURRIE was appointed to determine the number of sub-committees that would be needed, nominate convenors for name, define the scope and duties of each, and report back to-day.

OUTPORTS WIRED TO 

In order that there should be no delay in getting in touch with the outports and seeking their assistance, arrangements were made to wire immediately to all Magistrates and Justices of the Peace asking them to arrange for the formation of committees to solicit funds at all places in their jurisdictions. Franking privileges for the purposes of the committee were at one sough and obtained from the Prime Minister.
A deputation consisting of the chairman, vice-chairmen and Hon. Frank McNamara, was appointed to wait on the Prime Minister this morning to seek the Government co-operation. This was believed to be necessary in order that all efforts should be co-ordinated and overlapping avoided.

RAILWAY GIVES FREE ROUTING

A communication was received from Mr. H. J. RUSSELL, manager of the Railway, intimating that the Railway Commission had directed that all shipments to the affected areas via mail or steamer would be carried free of cost.
Offers of help were received from several sources and these will be availed of. Several donations were also handed into the treasurer and these will be acknowledged through the newspapers in due course . Following a general discussion as to the work of the various sub-committees which were to be appointed, adjournment was taken so that the nominating committee could get to work but not before the Hon. G. A. BARTLETT, of Burin, who was present during the proceedings expressed his appreciation and thanks to the committee for the energetic way in which they were undertaking their work. He would take back to the people of Burin the assurance that every effort would be made to bring them the relief they needed. The chairman thanked Mr. BARTLETT for his kind words and assured him of the committee’s sympathy and support.

MEET AGAIN TO-DAY

Another meeting of the general committee will be held at 4 o’clock this afternoon when the report of the nominating committee will be received and further work of organization be completed.


BAY DE L’EAU HIT BY TIDAL WAVE

Logs and Lumber of Thomas SMITH Swept Away

It is singular that although the tidal wave struck Rock Harbor immediately north of Marystown, on Monday of last week it missed Flat Islands and struck Bay De L’Eau. Bay de L’Eau is north of flat Islands and just west of Cape Roger. Thomas SMITH of Boat Harbor who operates a saw mill at Bay de L’Eau lost in the tidal wave a number of logs in his boom, and all the lumber he had sawed. His sawmill was also badly wrecked.


MEMBERS FOR BURIN EAST BACK FROM STRICKEN AREA

J. A WINTER, M .H.A., describes Pathetic Scenes of Destruction Wrought by tidal wave-
Port au Bras Literally Swept Clean. 

Pays tribute to work of Magistrate HOLLETT and Committee

Mr. J. A. WINTER who represents Burin East, and who left in the Meigle last Wednesday to visit his constituency saw for himself the destruction which the tidal wave had wrought and do what he could to help deal with the problem with which the people were confronted, returned to town, via Placentia, yesterday afternoon. Last evening the News interviewed Mr. WINTER and obtained from him the following interesting story of his visit, which , of course was confined to Burin and environs and did not included the sections further west where the greater loss of life occurred.
The S. S. Meigle which left St. John’s on Thursday, the 21st 1929 at 9.30 p.m. with the relief committee of the government, doctors and nurses arrived at Burin on the 22nd at 3.30 p.m. long before the coast was reached wreckage was met, mute evidence of the disaster which had befallen the coast. As we steamed on through the entrance to Burin Harbor here and there could be seen floating, or thrown up on the land wash, stages, and stores which had been carried out of the coves and from which the owners were endeavoring to salve any little that remained of their contants. As we approached the government wharf at Burin we were able to glean some small idea of the destruction. On all sides buildings were down, stores afloat or so twisted as to be useless. A house could be seen floating in the middle of Ship Cove where it had been towed by the “Daisy” and anchored. This had been swept to sea with all its occupants and swept back again long enough to permit the occupants, a woman and her children, to be heroically rescued through the windows by a man and woman who had witnessed their plight. Whenever one turned as we approached the scene was the same Great Burin, Shalloway, Stepaside, Kelly’s Cove, Pardy’s Island, Kirby’s cove, Collins Cove and Ship Cove all in a greater or lesser degree shared the same fate, details of which have already been published.

LOCAL COMMITTEE FORMED

On arrival at the government wharf magistrate HOLLETT immediately boarded the “Meigle” and at once steps were taken to deal with that aspect of the situation which necessitated immediate action. A committee was formed under the chairmanship of the magistrate to deal with the distress which extended from Rock Harbor to Corbin, and while sufficient foodstuffs were being landed to take care of immediate needs arrangements were made to make a complete survey of this area, the individual losses and pressing requirements while doctors and nurses were despatched to deal with the steps requiring immediate attention. Fortunately no serious cases were reported, the majority being found to be suffering from bruises and shock.



ARGYLE TAKES PROVISIONS FOR ROCK HARBOR

Shortly after we docked the “Argyle” arrived bound east, and it was very soon on her way again with provisions for Rock Harbor which suffered severely. Mr. CHARLES rose was also sent to obtain a complete inventory of the individual losses and the cases requiring immediate relief. A little later the “Meigle” and party proceeded to Point aux Gaul where it was understood the destitution was greatest.

Distribute Food, Fuel and Clothing

Next morning the committee met and in a very short time arrangements were made for the distribution of food and clothing and coals to the sufferers. It is impossible to speak too highly of the indefatigable work of Magistrate HOLLETT; also of Mr. C CHEESEMAN and Capt. Wm. FOOTE, were themselves very heavy losers , and who thought of self cheerfully about the task of relieving others.

Waterside Literally Swept Clean

In the afternoon of Saturday, accompanied by Rev. Mr. HISCOCK, and a supply of food etc., I visited Port au Bras. All along the shore on the way there visible piles of wreckage, while in Port au Bras itself the scene on arrival will never be forgotten. From end to end the waterside was literally swept clean; not a single erection of any sort was left intact. The settlement is situates on the shore of a semi-circular basin at the head of a long beach. No less than eleven dwellings houses were completely destroyed, one of which was carried out of the harbor with four occupants, Jessie FUDGE and her three daughters, all of whom perished, and drove ashore later that night at Path End , some three miles distant, not a single store, stage or wharf was left standing, provisions and fuel were washed away and all boats, skiffs and dories destroyed.


POINT OF BEACH SWEPT AWAY

Huge boulders were driven inland and so great was the force of the wave that it completely carried away a large section of the point of the beach which formed a shelter of boats, leaving an island in the centre and rendering the harbor almost useless as a shelter for shipping.
It is quite impossible to give any adequate idea of the extent of the destruction, which must be seen to be appreciated.
Everywhere men were engaged endeavoring to salve wreckage. Traps were torn to shreds and floating in all directions. Splendid work was done by the “Daisy” in the way of salving vessels.

PEOPLE STILL DAZED

As yet the people do not seem able to realize their losses and are dazed and stunned, though some are already busily engaged reconstructing what little they have succeeded in salving. No less than60 families have suffered in Port au Bras alone where the total loss is estimated at $85,000.00. Rock Harbor was similarly swept and the loss there will probably reach $30,000.00.
At Shalloway, Rock Harbor, Jean de Bay and Corbin bridges have been demolished, thereby cutting off whole sections of the settlements. This is a matter which will have to be attended to at once.



VALUE OF RADIO

On Sunday we were able to listen in to the service and news which were broadcast from St. Thomas’ and Wesley Church and I was fortunately able to get and post up the message which Dr. MOSDELL had sent the Prime Minister the previous night, giving the news from the western extremity of the devastated area.
Monday at 4 p.m. the lines were down again and it was impossible to get St. John’s. The meeting broadcasted in the evening was heard between the attempts of the “Daisy’s” wireless operator to call the “Meigle” which was harbored at Lawn. 
Complete statistics of losses from Corbin to Rock Harbor have been compiled by the committee at Burin and are now in the hands of the Government
The people deeply appreciate the efforts which are being made on their behalf by the committee and others in St. John’s and elsewhere, and the government deserves praise for the prompt manner in which the unusual situation was handled.



Relief Ship Meigle Completes Work of Aid

Further Reports Show Scenes of Destruction Everywhere-All Medical cases Attended To and Temporary Relief Given Through Committee Under Magistrate HOLLETT

Nonia Nurse Proves Heroine of the Moment

(To Colonial Secretary from Hon. Dr. MOSDELL)

Argentia, Nov.25-(On board the relief ship Meigle, Placentia Bay)- The relief expedition sent to the Southwest Coast on the steamer Meigle is now en route to St. John’s via Argentia. All the members have been busy every day from early morning until late at night in an effort to avoid the slightest unnecessary delay in reaching the scenes of suffering and privation caused by the tidal wave disaster. One whole day was lost at Lawn through a raging storm and blizzard, but by that time, the outstanding instances of need had been discovered, and dealt with, wherever the expedition has called the utmost gratitude has been expressed over the promptness with which the government responded to the call for assistance from the stricken section. The supplies so speedily rushed on board before the Meigle left St. John’s have been ample for immediate and temporally relief of the sufferers. Since reaching the coast special arrangements have been made for providing supplies of fuel, and orders have gone forward for lumber and other material for repairing houses at places like Taylor’s Bay and Port au Gaul. This should come forward by the Argyle within the next couple of days so that the speediest possible provision has been made to relive and avert privation on the part of the survivors of the catastrophe.

Magistrate Hollett Very Active

On oUr return to burin we found that the local committee had made prompt and careful disposition of the relief supplies landed her on our way west. Under the self-devoted leadership of Magistrate HOLLETT they have carefully surveyed the devastated area and have submitted an estimate of total damages with individual losses in each place between Rock Harbor and Corbin. The survey of St. Lawrence has also been completed along the same lines. Property damages in this section total at least half a million dollars. The survey of the section from Lawn to Lamaline has now been completed, but we fear the financial losses will be equality great. The loss of life through the tidal wave totals twenty-seven. Twenty-five deaths were due directly to the upheaval. Two others deaths occurred subsequently and were due to shock and exposure.

TOLL OF DEATHS

The toll of deaths at the various places are as follows:- 

Port Au Bras:- Jessie FUDGE and her three daughters, Gertie, Harriet and Hannah, Mary BENNETT, Henry DIBBON, and Mrs. William ALLAN, seven in all.

Kelly’s Cove:- Mrs. Vincent KELLY and her daughter, Dorothy, two in all.

Patrick’s Cove:- Mrs. Patrick RENNIE and her three children, four in all.

Taylor’s Bay:- Mrs. Robert BONNELL and children, two children of Bartholomew BONNELL and infant child of George PIERCEY, five in all. 

Point au Gaul:- Mrs. Henry Hillier and the three children of David HIPDITCH, namely Thomas, R. H. and H. P. Thomas HILLIER , one of the Government oil inspectors, Irene HILLIER, Mrs. Eliza WALSH and Miss Mary Ann WALSH.

Allan’s Island, Lamaline ; James LOCKYER..


FIFTY SICK AND INJURED

Fifty cases of sick and injured have been under treatment by our medical staff and have been left ample supplies of drugs with which to carry on the treatment prescribed for them by our doctors. General control of the expedition was delegated by the government to Hon. Dr. CAMPBELL, H.B. C. LAKE, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Mr. F. T. FUDGE, M.H. A. and Hon. Dr. MOSDELL, chairman of the Board of Health. Immediate direction of operation at the scene of disaster was placed by members of the expedition in the hands of Mr. Lake, whose own district was hard hit and who had an intimate knowledge of the districts of Burin East and Burin West. Dr. L. PATTERSON volunteered for service with the expedition and was places in charge of the operations of the professional staff which consisted of Dr. C. F. BLACKER and Dr. J. B. MURPHY, with Nurses JACKMAN, HAMPTON, RENDELL and FITZGERALD. Mr J. A. WINTER M. H. A. for Burin East also accompanied the expedition.-(Sgd) H. M. MOSDELL




(To Colonial Secretary)

Lawn, November 25:-At every place visited by the relief ship Meigle the residents emphasize the sudden and fearful nature of the catastrophe that overtook them through the medium of the earthquake shock and tidal wave. Earth tremors were very severe at all places and were succeeded by extremely low tide after which about an hour later the tidal wave swept in and left a track of death and destruction. Judging from scenes we have witnessed and examinations we have the tidal wave must have been close to one hundred feet high when it struck the shore. effects displayed were most erratic. Whole families had an almost miraculous escape from inundated dwellings. One or two members of other families were swept away and others spared. Schooners that passed by the devastated sections of the shore at a time identical with the occurrence of the catastrophe and state the noise of its onset could be hears at sea report there wasn’t the slightest disturbance of the sea over which they were passing. Other schooners in the same neighborhood at the same time got their first evidence of disaster from large quantities of floating wreckage drifting off from the shore. Eye witnesses of the disaster state that the earth tremors were accompanied by a noise like that caused by a squadron of airplanes in flight overhead. At Point au Gaul the tidal wave was described as having a rotary motion rolling on the shore in a mass foam while at Taylor’s Bay eye witnesses describe it as rising so high that it blotted out the stars. At the latter place the force of the wave must have been extraordinarily terrific. Dwelling houses were reduced to a condition reminiscent of wartime description of the effects of heavy shell fire. Former sites of gardens and meadows now thickly strewn with boulders, some of them as large as casks thrown upon the shore by the devastating force of the tidal wave. Motor boats, stages and wharfs piers lifted bodily and thrown far inland in heaps of ruins. Lord’s Cove and Lamaline visited by the relief expedition yesterday here dozen of houses, stores and stages were found thrown bodily into the pont at the head of the harbors, huddled together in one heap of destruction. Some lay upright but half submerged while others lay on their sides, and still others were entirely overturned. At Lord’s Cove a very small dwelling was seen right in the middle of the pond hundreds of years from its original site. In this tiny house a mother and her three children were caught upstairs by the rising water and were drowned. Upstairs a small baby lay in bed and was taken out entirely unharmed . The house of death now stands half submerged in water isolated and desolate its windows broken and its frayed white blinds flittering in the breeze like a flag of distress.
For the last four days the weather has been extremely cold, the winds high and piercing and snow has blanketed the ground everywhere. The survivors of the disaster, insufficiently clad and without bed clothing have suffered in misery in overcrowded houses which were badly shattered by the hammer blow of the tidal wave or by huge boulders which the current hurled about like projectiles from great guns.
As a result of all this exposure and the shock occasioned the survivors, by the ordeal through which they have passed, a large number of people are seriously ill. The medical staff on board the relief ship Meigle have been kept constantly busy caring for the sufferers. Scores of cases have been treated and the demands have been so great that drugs supplies were exhausted, occasioning a brief visit to St. Pierre from Lamaline last night as no stocks were available anywhere else within reach. Officials cordially welcomed members of the expedition and facilitated their business which was completed by nine o’clock last evening the ship making for St. Lawrence but being forced by a southeast storm to harbor at Lawn. Its raining heavily to-day with a much higher temperature that has been experienced since the expedition came to the coast. No inventory of losses has yet been taken as St. Lawrence where property destruction has been reported as heavier that in any other section of the devastated area. While no exact figure can be given at present it is feared that material losses of all kinds between Lamaline and Rock Harbor will closely approximate, if they do not absolutely reach a total of a million dollars.


(Colonial Secretary from Hon. Dr. MOSDELL)

Argentia, November 27.-(on board relief ship Meigle, Burin)- the Florence Nightingale of the earthquake and tidal wave disaster on the Southwest coat is Nurse D. CHERRY of the Nonia Cantre at Lamaline. At every point the Meigle has called we have heard stirring tales of her courage and devotion to the interests of the survivors. Starting her work of mercy immediately after the occurrence of the catastrophe she has known no rest day or night since then, and has been without assistance of any kind until the arrival on the coast of the doctors and nurses of our relief expedition. It must have been almost a superhuman effort for Nurse CHERRY to make her way on foot all through the stricken area from Lamaline to Lawn, a distance of twenty miles. Roads and bridges were swept away and she had to wade many of the streams en route. The weather was intensely cold with snow falling almost all the time. Her ministrations proved nothing less that providential to terror stricken women and frightened women and children. She got through the district as quickly as possible, sparing herself not at all and after rendering first aid in one settlement she moved on along until something had been done everywhere to help and to cheer the stricken. Courage and devotion were required for the journey which was made right after the woeful destruction of the tidal wave, with miles of desolation to be traversed at night, and nobody just sure that the catastrophe would not be reenacted 
All day yesterday the Meigle sheltered at Lawn a southeast storm with high seas and driving rain rendering communication with the shore almost impossible. Towards evening that rain turned to sleet and there was nothing to do except wait until the dark and tempestuous night had passed. During the lull in the storm of the morning nurse Cheery was taken on board . She was found almost in a state of collapse after her strenuous and self-sacrificing efforts. Despite her objections the expedition kept her with them and have taken her as far as Burin to enable her to recuperate. She returns to her district by the Argyle tomorrow.
At St. Lawrence this morning we found the whole foreshore of the spacious harbor strewn with wreckage of the wharves, houses and stores. The financial loss here due to destruction of property, of roads and of bridges must total at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Two waves hit this place; the first did very little damage and was followed by a recession of the water which left the harbor exposed inside a line cross the public wharf to the opposite side. Normally the water here is over thirty feet deep. The extremely low tide was succeeded by the second tidal wave described as at least fifty feet high. It swept the harbor with a circular motion throwing big stores from side to side of the port and leaving many of them hundred of yards from their original sites. GIOVANNINI’s store, originally on the south side of the harbor, was moved bodily to the north side where it was smashed to matchwood the only portion left intact being the firm’s sign which rears itself starkly from the shattered store. In the height of the storm heavy buildings were tossed about like chips and it is a marvel that more lives were not lost from the flying debris. Fortunately few of the dwelling houses at St. Lawrence were destroyed and there is not so much destitution to cope with there, as at other places visited. Whatever relief supplies were necessary were landed from the Meigle and were put in charge of a local relief committee. The public wharf is badly damaged, the road is washed out in many places, and practically all the bridges are down including the big concrete one which cost almost thirty thousand dollars to construct. After completing the survey of damage at St. Lawrence the Meigle made a stormy trip to Burin where Mr. P. T. Fudge, M. H. A. a member of the relief expedition, was landed to await the Glencoe and proceed to his home at Pass Island, three families of refugees taken on board at the devastated settlement of Taylor’s Bay were also landed here. They will be taken in charge by Mr. Fudge and outfitted with clothing After which they will proceed with him on the Glencoe to Fortune where they will take up residence with relatives.- (Sgd) H. M. MOSDELL 



NOVEMBER 29 1929



South Coast Disaster Fund

(Received at Daily New Office)


Amount acknowledged $2,194.10
Rev. M Fenwick 20.00
Dr. H. H. Cowperthwaite 25.00
Folks at Daniels Cove B.D.V. per John Howard 10.35
A Vincent Summers 10.00
Alex. Day (Old Perlican) 2.00

Total $2,261.45

( Received by the Hon. Treasurer)
Tors Cove Trading Co. Ltd. 100.00
Stevenson & Co Ltd. 50.00
Miss M. J. Chafe 10.00
Thomas Winter 50.00
C. A. C. Bruce 100.00
B. J. Miller 50.00 
Job Bros. & Co., Ltd. 1000.00
Graves & Sons 25.00
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Grey 50.00
Canon and Mrs Bolt 25.00
R. Gushue 50.00
D. K. Kermode Parr Cambridge Mass 5.00
Bert Hayward Ld. 100.00 
“Our Gang” contract four 4.00 
The total amount now in hands of Hon. Treasurer exclusive of the daily newspaper fund is $15,884

GIFTS IN KIND

The gift in Kind Committee acknowledges with thanks the following:- 

Mrs. T. Hamilton, Carter’s Hill, 1 parcel clothing

Mrs. Crocker, Young Street, 1 parcel clothing

Mrs. O’Mara. Kings Road, 1 parcel ,clothing.

P. E. Outerbridge, City 2 packages, groceries, etc.

Friend, City, 1 parcel, clothing

Mrs. W. F. Joyce, Barnes Road, 8 packages clothing.

Mrs. M. J. Nolan, Pleasant St. 1 package, clothing

Mrs. Carew, Theatre Hill, 1 bed spring and mattress.



DECEMBER 2, 1929


SOUTH COAST DISASTER FUND

Received at Daily New office.

Amount acknowledged $2261.45

From the Palace Priests 100.00

Rev. C. H. and Mrs. Johnson 25.00

Donation from eight kiddies all cousins, as follows
Bobbin, Hanley and Nancy, 10.00 Jessie, Buster &
Kitty 10.00, Bob & George 10.00 30.00

Carbonear Girls Guides 10.00

William L. Halfyard 10.00

Collection taken at home of Mrs. H. T. Ford,
South river, by listeners 5.00

Employees Sanitary Dept. Municipal Council,
per Mrs. Jas G. Dwyer 105.00

E. J. R. Trinity 100.00

Edna E. Parsons 5.00

J. M LeDrew and family Bell Island 5.00

Henry and Ian Cowan 50.00

Total $2706.95

The following subscriptions have been received by me:- 

T & M Winter $2000.00

Baine Johnson & Co.Ltd. $1000.00

The Metallic roofing Co. of Toronto(per Wm.
Heap & Co. Ltd.) 200.00

Nfld. Boot & Shoe Mfg. Co. 100.00

Thomas Hallett 100.00

The Monroe Export Co. Ltd 500.00


Mendes Lima & Co., Pernambuco,
Brazil(per The Monroe Export Co. Ltd) L100 493.87
(Pounds)

Employees Harvey Butterine Factory 60.00

The total amount now in the hands of the Hon. Treasurer exclusive of the daily newspaper funds is $20,337.87

SOUTH COAST DISASTER FUND COMMITTEE
A. Milligan, Hon Treasurer..