The Devonian

DODGE, District Judge.

The British steamship Devonian, bound from Liverpool for Boston, encountered, as she approached the coast of Massachusetts, a northeast snowstorm with heavy wind and high sea, in which she was carried out of her proper course for Boston, after passing Highland Light, so far as to run aground on the Scituate shore. This happened at about 1 o’clock in the morning of Thursday, February 15, 1906; the tide being about half flood when the steamship first took the ground. Efforts made to get her afloat during the next high water by working her engines astern proved unavailing.…