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 lielston 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 3i miles, but the sand
blown up by the gales forms a bar, through which the
river is unable to . force 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 reterred to, the list of
persons drowned on the coast since Saturday morn-
ng comprises 15 persons.
SWANSEA, Thuriday 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. Ile 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 Dania
James, mate, and Henry liaveson, 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
vesselswhich left the no: th-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
Lanercoat tug got into Burlington Bay yesterday,
but the Perthshire and the Mariner had not been
accounted for. The steam-tug Marco Polo, belong-
ing to Sunderland, was seen towing a dismasted
schooner before the gale came on. The Dudley
steamship, which arrived in the Tyne from Ham-
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 in the North Sea had been very
stormy, and that the vessel was gunnel in and out
of the water during the entire passage. Tilie Tyne
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
Meghee and Cora, of Whitstable, have been sold,
and to give an idea how they have been broken up
by the gale it may be btated 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.

EDINBURGH, Jan. 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 w. 13 expected to be