Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)
1857 - DISASTERS TO FISHERMEN

A disastrous gale, attneded with loss of life, occurred on the north shore of the Provincd of St. John, on the 22d ult. The Miramichi Gleaner says: -

"This morning we learn from a person who has just arrived from Tracadie, that twnety-nine dead bodies have been picked up on the beach. Another report has just reached us that sixty boats are supposed to be lost, owned by parties living between Neguac and Tracadie, and fifty-one dead bodies hae been picked up between these two places. It is calculated that two hundred boats were out fishing, and many more disasters, it is feared, have occurred.

"The master of a coaster arrived this morning from Shediac, informs us that he put into Egmont Bay, P.E. Island, during the storm, and he counted 130 American fishing craft that had run in for shelter. He states that there was great destruction among the fishing boats, a number having floated ashore."

Boston Investigator
Boston, Massachusetts
August 12, 1857

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