The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-20 00:00:00

STORM, RAIN, AND HIGH TIDES.

LOSS OF TWO wzr SOUTH VESSELS.

About six o'clock on Saturday morning the brig
Marnhull, of Weymouth, from London to Middles-
bomb, laden with scrap Irma, Amick in mid-channel
off Fairfield 04, Lowestoft. The crew consisted of
six men. One of them, named John Soak aged 44,
was washed from off the rigging. The five others were
saved by the Seiningland lifeboat wi h great difiloulty.
The body of Scott ha I not been recovered by Sunday;
he 1 a wife and gig sons and daughters.
Siena of distress were also seen from another vessel,
the Lowestoft boat went out, but could not lad a
vestige of the ship. She hal evidently goes down
with all hands.
when Captain Fowler tried to make the
the Pithefield Gat, between the Newcombe and o
the
Brainard swig, but was driven on the latter in the
thick weather and heavy gale. Before assistance could
be rendered from the shore. John Scott, son of hie.
William Scott, of the old Liberty, was washed from
the deck and drowned. The rapt tin and the rest
succeeded in getting into the rigginc,where they stayed
two hours and a half • but were eventually rescued
by the lifeboat. Mr. hell;
was in his 494 year; be
leaves • widow and six children, four his own, and
two his wife's by a former husband. His parents are
both alive, and are aged respectively 85 and 82, and to
the old people, of course, the death Is • sore blow, as
well as to sow and children. The body had not
been recovers/ up to last saionoti.
The other disaster occurred off Worthing. The
Standard say.: On Saturday evening, during the
heavy gale, the schooner Teresa, of Weymouth,
Captain J. :Robley, from Guernsey for London, laden
with granite, ems seen in Ms' rem off Worthing.
Rockets were mot up in answer t her signals, and the
lifeboat was quickly Mooched. With greet difficulty
the schooner wee reecho I and the whole of the crew
rescued in • very exhausted condition. One of the
men was so terrified that he leapt from the deck
Into the lifeboat immediately she neared the schooner.
The captain stated that the schooner had been
driving about in a helpless state for two dime, and
that the mew were oompletely worn out. Daring
Saturday night the schooner was driven ashore and
went to pieces, the beach being literally *town with
wreckage on Sunday morning.
The fleet of Weymouth crusting vessels is now reduced
to five or six, the late storm having destroyed
the already small number, each currier
circumstances, for with the lifernbull was lost a
valuable life, in the Terms the life-savinge of an
Industrious man. The Mentholl was lately repaired
at great expense by her wenn., Me. C. W. Lovell, and
was on her voyage from London to Middlesborough
with iron, in there* of Captain Fowler, and a crew,
ex all told. Sbe was caught in the storm about heli-
port five on Saturday morning. when off Lowestoft.
For some time pest the credulous have been exercised
by • supposed report and fore-telling from America,
that somewhere about March sth we are to have •
tremendous high tidal wave, which surnaming the
effects of the griper storm when a boat cone up to RR
Mary's Church, shall entirely wish away Betelcombe
Regis and the lower ports of Weymouth. It was
therefore with unusual athitement that the abnormally
high tide of last Saturday and the followlag days was
ema, and being accompanied with strong wind and
f pelting, drenching, drowning rain, It was the
rninmpressive. The fearful storms of Saturday,
especially As storm of the afternoon, had flooded the
low lords from the Park to the lower part of the Gm-
house-road, and again at West HMO, where gardens
for the time looked like lake.. The rising of the tide
penned the water back, and p•opls in our Holland
were disgusted at having six Inches In their parlours,
while others on lower ground fared far worm. A
baker, whose premises were In something likes hollow,
hardly rescued his flour bags from being swamped; a
publican, finding the water round his barrels, hastened
to the police-station for leave to remove to, and *ell in,
an empty house war; and a pitiable coo is recorded
where • hard-working man came home afar a week'.
work to find his wife in the water trying to rescue
their furniture. The water rose some diseases over
the tramway, and some houses hal the hesr-barrels
mounted on the counters. Sunday was be wilfully
fine, but the erne of watery wastes was gruesome, and
the Meteorological Department with unusual excite-
ment telegraphed to hoist math cone again, for a fresh
and apparently deep depression was approachins Ire-
teed from the Atlantic, and the barometer Idling
rapidly. In the night the wind cams on heavily from
south-east, and • leadsman's gale blew in them
I, came the tide, and the wind piled the water against
the Esplanade, and by 10 o'clock they topped It and
swept over, bringing large pebble' as If they were is k.
and greying them over the surfs*, from the middle
of the Belvidere, all that in front of the Craw int,
and down to ppposite the.ttaldrile of Gloooester.row,

7.lll.7l;:roilarratterial which has he... put
lb.Repie Il nade ea washed el by IX:water.
Vvied ea
ng only the stones trebled in may pole, Do wind
also was blowing fieroely, a hand-ant was turned
completely over, and the postman from Preston had
such • peerage at be has not had for veers,
the sea breaking over the road and into Ladino el%
while the wind blew so that the center's
conveyance, making the journey between the
villages and Weymouth, would bane been capsized
hod it not been remarkably well crowded with pavan.
gen. Loduroor wet like • lake, or rather like pert of
Lb. Ray, and the raceeconne had disappeared, the
contour of the Ind being apparently quite altered, for
a lore( low cape, just fringed with Isadore, named to
run out LO the open en. Fortunately the water wee
not so high as to do as it did In the great storm, when
• man WM smiled from • cart, and drowned jolt
when Victoria-terrace I. now; but In the low lend,
funnily called the Park, the sten of thi• go we. dep'o--
able, lower stereos being inundated. On the CTOMMe,
cial•rold the water cams up to the ga'• of the idielcomh I
Regis School play-gt mod ; Brunswick-plan wee
swamps I, and old people driven up to the ton room.,
where they were blockaded by the en, and relieved hy
ftiandly neighbours with neoesserin through the wet r.
At Bardon-buildian • swan came swimming up over
Lb. road to Um Yoot's dooretep to be fed, and in
Lower Boad-street the sea water CMG us.. for IL.
the Lomb bed flag Tea. Passing UP I md•strent
again to the bent, we God a large bole has lite§ male
in the Efiaeride, opposite the Royal Donut Yacht
Club, Mad 05 of the oomennonnerat of
damages In theold thaw. when we have seen 200
feet or 300 feet of the Sepia/led, go down here in a
single tide. There °snot-ray were net Lb. god old
awes, with regard to &mare from the eve At the
Pile-pier the water was about level with the desk of
the wooden pert, and looking up the Herbour it
seemed to have doubled its leak the 'Gear Wog
*owed with water in ail the lane pert& In front
of the George Ise the water caw up to the door,