The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-01 00:00:00

THE LATE STORM 111 THE NORTH.

News of wider and more mournful disaster con-
tinue to be received from the north-west coast of Scotland.
The foilowing letter from Ullapool, published in the
Scotrmaa, dated on Christmas-day, largely increases the
calculation of the boats and men lost in the storm of De-
cember 18 and 19 :—" Our shores are literally strewed
with wrecks, and day after day adds to their number.
Front Unapool to Bu More it is said that the &lois of
no less than fourteen or fifteen boats have been imbed
ashore. In one place, which I have tun, there
ere the materials of at lean three boats, with about
twenty oars, broken and whole, four udder', snd five cod
and hog. In another place, which I have also seen, there
ere the wrecks of one or two boats, a number of oars, and
a malt A bonnet has been washed ashore in gaoler
The boats all appear to have come from Lewis, and
rrter:l.one parish in that island. I have been told that two
boats with their crews managed to gain land in Aasint,
and another further to the north. Their tale is sorrowful
in the extreme. By their account there were twenty-four
boats, including themaelves, all out from the parish of
Neil, in Lewis, fishing with • long lines' on a bank off the
Butt of Lewis, when they were overtaken by the storm
which precipitated so many of them into eternity. They
tried hard to gain land in Lewis, bat as the storm
was straight ahead, their efforts were futile. They
bad then no alternative but to run with the wiod,
and, so far u I have been able to learn, of the
whole twenty-four those three only managed to
gain land. The usual number of men to each of those boats
es sigh:, but taking the minimum number, six, we have up-
wards of 120 persons consigned to a watery grave. Great
as that loss is, it is to be feared that it dose not comprehend
the total loss of life incurred by the Island of Lewis by this
terrible dispensation, for be it remembered that the men
who escaped spoke only of the twenty-four boats which
were out from their own place ; they could say nothing as
Ito the number that were out from other parts of the Lews.
That is still unkuonr. Those that escaped lashed them-
selves to the boat, sod spread their sails across, eau order to
keep out a part of the heavy sees. No holies have as yet
been foundon oar shores. Tiiestorm has continued since, but
with abated violence. To-day, however, it had span in-
, maul:l,lll°lring a very strongest., from the west. The search
along our shores is to be continued for some time." A
letter of the 24th, from the Gairlocb, confirm the above
melancholy account of the lose of life by the storm. On
Sunday and Monday a great number of boats were cast
ashore on various parts of the oust. About a dozen have
been found on the coast around Lochewa, most of which
have been completely destroys& The Lawman steamer
called at A ultberi on Monday, and stated that two Lewis
boats had made into Baidcatil, Loehinver, who stated that
twenty-four boats were oat fishing on the Lewis coast, and
it is believed that the wrecks found in Lochewe are Lewis
boats which had bees out fishing and=in the storm,
and that the whole of the crews have p

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