The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-27 00:00:00

711 E GALES.

MORE FATAL LOSSES.

The most disastrous accounts of the effects of the
late heavy gales continue to be received. In addi-
tion to the sad havoc which has been caused on the
shores of the United Kingdom, a long catalogue of
disasters has come in from the north coast of
Europe, and up to Saturday upwards of 100 wrecks
and more than 500 casualties, attended with great
great sacrifice of life, had been reported en Lloyd's
books during the week. There was a lull in the
violence of the weather in the course of Thursday,
but late on Saturday evening the wind again came
on to blow strong, and it is feared must have told
with serious effect upon the shipping which had
ventured out of port. Several homeward-bound
ships which have succeeded in reaching Falmouth
and other western ports report the most terrific
weather in the chops of the Channel, and some of
the vessels, to escape foundering, had to throw
their cargo overboard. By the Speculant, which
arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, intelligence has
been received of the abandonment of the brig Token,
of Dartmouth, bound from Belize, with a cargo of
mahogany, to Queenstown, and melancholy to re-
late, the captain and twelve of the crew are reported
to have been drowned. The remainder of the hands
were rescued by the Speculant, which has brought
there to England.
Of the crew of the large ship Bencoolen, from
Liverpool to Bombay, which was driven ashore at
Bude Haven on the Cornish coast, only six were
saved, the captain and two mates being amongst
those who perished. The ill-fated vessel was dis-
• masted when she struck, and within an hour after-
wards she went to pieces. The captain went into
his cabin to get something when the ship struck, and
a heavy sea washing away the companion he was
drowned in his cabin. The lifeboat was soon on the
spot, but the sea that was running rendered her
going off most difficult. A rocket-line was fired
over the wreck, and a man in trying to get hold of
it was washed overboard and perished. The survivors
got ashore on pieces of spars, and the greatest kind-
ness was shown them by the inhabitants. The coast
was strewed with wreck. The names of the survivors
are Andi ew Hollman, Thomas Smith, Wm. Stran-
ger, John Whiteside, Thomas Aspinal, and George
Welsh. Several of the bodies have been picked up.
The B mcoolen was nearly 1,500 tons, and was laden
with machinery, railway iron, &c.
Later telegrams speak of considerable damage
amongst the colliers and other coasters navigating
the North Sea. A large barque called the Atlantic,
belonging t) Weymouth, bound to Sunderland from
Ilonflcur, was driven ashore at Thirsted. The
Dutch and Danish ports furnish a long list of disas-
ters, the gale having raged on that line of coast
with great fury, accompanied in some parts by
thunder and lightning. Some of the cattle steamers
had to put back with a considerable loss of
their live cargo. The timber-laden ships ap
pear to have been particularly unfortunate
in weathering the gale, and a fleet of vessels from
the Baltic have had to put into Christiansand and
other ports all more or less damaged.
The barque Black Eagle, laden with wheat, from
New York to Glasgow, foundered 15 miles from the
Calf of Man, and the mate and second mate pe-
rished. The masts were cut away to righten the
Ship, when she went down. The mates were washed
overboard with lifebuoys round them, and after
floating about a quarter of an hour they sank. The
remainder of the crew were picked up by the
schooner Gardner and landed at Fleetwood.
Great fears were entertained fur the safety of
the steamers trading from London and Hull to the
northern
continental ports; but it appears that
they all have been a accounted for, although some of
them have had
a very narrow escape.

MELANciIo
LOSS OF LIFE.
Friday morning an accident
1 i
smacks belonging to
Pin Mill, which has resulted
to Colchester, and to
the drowning of
ten men. It appears that at in
Roh_i_naoot low tide the crews of
four smacks—the
Harwich; the
Cyrene and Ranger, both
bbyelernoin Pin Mill (a
small village inhabited
gers, and others engaged on fishermen Stone dred-
he water,
miles up the Orwell), and a smack about six
Colchester—were engaged in tripping
f the
wreck
in Goldwer's Gatway, by the West Rooks 'ar'clered
°
nesday. Almost all the men were on thett,:rAred*
only one or two having been left in charge of
each of the smacks, when suddenly, without the
least warning, the wreck tuned completely over,
carrying the 13 men who were on board with her,
and immersing them in the water. The men who
had been left on board the smacks did their best to
rescue their comrades, but they were short handed,
and their comrades in the water were hampered
with the Ni reck, and only three were got on board
the smacks, and these in a very exhausted state, the
remaining ten being drowned. Two of the men, be-
longing to Harwich, leave large families. ,