The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

The Late Gales.

CORNWALL, Jan. 10.
A large area of land in several parts of the county
is still under water, and by the floods alone damage
to the extent of some hundreds of pounds has been
sustained. At Helston the inundation has been
very serious ; a large portion of the town lies in a
valley, through which runs a small river down to
the sea, a distance of about 31 miles, but the sand
blown up bythe gales forms a bar, through which the
river is unable to forte its way, and consequently
forms a sheet of water called the Looe Pool, about
three miles long and half a mile wide. In cases of
heavy rainfall this water rises rapidly and deluges
the whole of the lower portion of the town, the only
remedy for which is the rather formidable operation
of cutting through the Looe Bar and allowing the
water to escape into the sea. On Monday night
the water rose to such an extent as to cause many
houses to be flooded nearly up to the second story ;
the town, moreover, was thrown into a state of
darkness by the flooding of the gasworks. On
Tuesday a large body of men collected together, and
succeeded, after great labour, in cutting through
the bar, when a magnificent sight was presented in
the escape of the liberated waters coming in contact
with the tremendous waves which were rolling in
from the Atlantic. Although by this operation
Helston has been relieved from most of the sur-
plus water, the town is still, in many parts, in
a most deplorable plight. In the neighbour-
hood of St Austell the state of affairs is even more
unsatisfactory in consequence of the large quan-
tity of water that covers the land. The river's
banks will take-some time to be restored and made
strong. Reports continue to come in of wrecks along
the coast, and it is feared that a large bark, name
unknown, has gone to pieces off Porthleaven, and
that the whole of her crew, supposed to number
more than a dozen, have perished. A vessel has
also gone down near the Land's End. Leaving out
of the question the crew just referred to, the list of
persons drowned on the coast since Saturday morn-
ing comprises 15 persons. _ _ .

SWANSEA, Thursday Evening.

The Jane Hughes has been wrecked near Worms
Head, on the Gower coast. One of the crew has
arrived here and applied to the agent of the Ship-
wrecked Mariners' Society for relief. The vessel
was bound from Whitehaven for Cardiff with iron
ore. The captain has made no official report at the
Swansea Custom-house of the loss of the vessel, and
all that is known here is the intelligence furnished
by the seaman above referred to, who states that
the vessel is a total wreck, her bulwarks having
been washed away. lie adds that he swam ashore
with a rope, by means of which the whole of the
crew were saved. All the effects belonging to the
crew have been lost. The crew of the lifeboat sta-

tioned at Ferryside, succeeded in rescuing Daniti
James, mate, and Henry Haveson, seaman, from
the wreck of the Gem, of Hull, which went ashore
off Carmarthen Bar. The lifeboat had much diffi-
culty in approaching the wreck, and the two re-
scued men were clinging to the foremast, the only

mast standing, the hull being completely under water.
It appears the captain mistook Caldy for St. Ann's,
and thought they were running into Milford. After
striking, the ship almost immediately filled, and the
crew lashed themselves to the crosstrees. Captain
W. Taylor and his wife, and William M'Bride and
Patrick M'Bride were drowned in their lashings
during the night, and in the morning the survivors
cut the lashings and allowed the bodies to fall, as
they were_fearfully mangled.

SHIELDS, Jan. 11.

The schooner Hero, bound from Blyth for Dun-
dee, coal laden, left the former place on Wednes-
day, and she had got as far as the northward of the
Fern Islands, when she encountered the N.E. gale
which has been blowing on the Northumberland
coast 48 hours. After struggling with it some time
the master was obliged to put his ship about and
run south. While off the Coquet Island the vessel '
sprung a leak, and it took all the crew to keep the
pumps going. But as there was no chance of main-
taining the vessel afloat, or of the weather mode-
rating, the master determined to run the vessel
ashore upon the sand to the south of Sunderland to
try to save the lives of himself and crew. While off
Souter Point the vessel fell in with the Renown, the
master of which offered to tow the ship into the
Tyne for £2OO, a bargain to which the master of the
schooner agreed. A rope was given to the tug, but
'she had not been pulling at her more than a quarter
of an hour when the master of the schooner shouted
that his vessel was sinking, and the steamer came
alongside, and dragged the hands, four in num-
ber, through the sea, with lines into the tug.
They had not been ten minutes in the tug when
the schooner went down. The crew were landed
at the Tyne Sailors' Home here, where they
have been kindly attended to, and they will be sent
home by the Shipwrecked ;Mariners' Society. The
schooner Mary, of Dundee, has also been brought
into the Tyne with her decks swept, and otherwise
injured. It is feared that some other small Scotch
vessels which left the north-eastern ports a few hours
before the gale came on upon Wednesday would have
some difficulty in weathering out the night before
last off the Northumberland coast. Some tug
steamers belonging to the Tyne, which left the port
before the gale came on, are not accounted for. The
Lanercost tug got into Burlington Bay yesterday,
I but the Perthshire and the Mariner had not been
accounted for. The steam-tug Marco Polo, belong-
in, to Sunderland, was seen towing a dismasted
schooner before the gale came on. The Dudley
steamship, which arrived in the Tyne from Hama
burg yesterday, reports that she left on Sunday, and
was obliged to take her departure before getting
all her cargo on board, as the ice was beginning to
stop the navigation in the Elbe. The captain states
that the weather i❑ the North Sea had been very
stormy, and that the vessel was gunnel in and out
of the water during the entire passage. The 'Fyne
is crowded with wind-bound vessels. The frost was
extremely keen to-day, and there is some snow, but
there is an appearance of more settled weather,
though the sea is still very high. The wrecks of the
Megl►ee and Cora, of Whitstable, have been sold,
and to give an idea how they have been broken up
by the gale it may be stated that all that remained
of them put together only realised £2 10s. exclusive '
of stores. As was expected, nearly all the small
Scotch schooners which sailed from the Tyne on
Wednesday have met with some accident. The
Robert and Betsey, bound for Aberdeen,is wrecked
at Hartlepool, and her crew, who had a narrow
escape for their lives, were saved by the lifeboat.
The Archer, bound to Dundee, has been taken into
the same place in a crippled state.

EDINBUIiGII, Jail. 10.

On Thursday the Egbertus, a Dutch schooner, was
run ashore between East and West Wemyss, on the
Fifeshire coast. The master and crew were taken off,
along with the master's wife and child. They had
been tossing about for 28 days and were very much
exhausted. The cargo of oats wm. expected to be

recovered, though the ship was breaking up. On
Wednesday a fishing boat, attempting to run from
Newhaven to the securer harbour of Leith, was
capsized in the heavy sea, and those on board, four
young fishermen, were drowned. The accident was
seen from the shore.

JERSEY, Thursday.

The Channel Islands have suffered great incon-
venience during the storm which has raged for the
past few days. The mail packet service has been
interrupted, so that the islands were without any
news from England for four days—viz., from Sa-
turday to Wednesday. The mail packet Brittany,
which should have left Southampton on Monday at
midnight, due in Jersey at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, did
not leave her port, in consequence of the weather,
until 7 a.m. on Tuesday, and was then obliged to
bring up off Lymington until 9 o'clock at night.
After a tedious passa;fe she reached Jersey at 11 45
a.m. on Wednesday, with her gangways knocked in
and some of her stanchions started. The mail via

Weymouth, due yesterday (Wednesday), did not
arrive, the mail packet Brighton, Capt. Brache, not
being able to leave port on account of the severity
of the gale. Considerable damage was done to the
shipping in the harbour by the gale. A new bark,
the Virgilia, which was being towed into the har-
bour on Monday afternoon drifted into the rocks in
consequence of the breaking of the tow-rope. Her
anchors were thrown out, and she rode safely, but
during the night the gale drove her across St. Aubin's
Bay, high up the beach, near to Millbrook, whence

it will be difficult to remove her. A seaman named
William Cowley, belonging to the steamer Esk,
trading between London and the islands, was blown
over the quay at Guernsey on Saturday night during
the gale, and drowned.