Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-06

The Great February Storm on the British
/ Considerable Loss of Life e-ExcitfnR
and HarrowIna Scenes.
| The violent gale which ravaged the east
coasts of England and Ireland on Friday
and Saturday, February and 8, appears to
nave been more destructive in its effects
than any similar visitation which has oc-
CURED on those shores for many years. IL
was so sudden and unexpected, coming as it
dld from the northeast, that numerous small
coastlng vessels were sacrificed to its fury,
when, had there been any previous phenom-
ena TO indicate such an interruption to the
line weather which had prevailed, they
might have remained safely anchored in
sheltered harbors.
The storm set in on the afternoon of Fri
DAY, and ragged without intermission until
Saturday night-the weather-vanes indicat-
ing an occasional change in the wind from
north. east to south and west. In the neigh
borhood of Hull, Shields and Hartlepool on
the English coast and Kingstown and the
adjacent ports on the Irish coast the great
est rayages were committed.
at Shields, Hartlepool, Redcar and Scar
borough, sixty-three vessels are reported to
have gone ashore or foundered, of which
about forty are total wrecks. Fourteen
SHIPS are reported wrecked or disabled at
kingstown alone, and to this list of casual
ties is added melancholy catastrophe which
betel Captain Boyd, of Her Majesty's steamer
-AJdT, and number of his crew. while en-
deayoring to save the lives of shipwrecked
mariners.
The English and Irish papers abound IN
narrowing details Of the disasters.
AT Bray" says the Dublin FTeengn's
Journal where the storm ragged with no
less fury, one of those heroic deeds which
exalt human nature was performed by James
Lacy. James Boden deserves almost equal
commendation. A large brig went on shore
and the men clung to the rigging, while
frightful sea broke over the vessel. Boden
succeeded in casting rope. to the men, of
whom four got ashore. One remained on
board, and he was believed to be too faint to
make his escape. He showed no signs of
animation, and was reported by his fellows
to be in sinking state. How was he to be
rescued? No boat could venture out in such
a sea, and the rope was unavailing. Lacy
volunteered to work his way to the brig
along the rope, and nearly perished in the
attempt he succeededin reaching the ship :
lashed the halfdead man to the rope and
with the aid of some of the fishermen Of Brav.
the last of the men was drawn to land
through the raging surface.
Along the northern shore, as might have
been expected, the scene was still more har
rowing, if one terrible disaster could be gnr-
passed in horror by another. From Howth
to the mouth of the Boyne the coast is
strewed with the fragments of wrecks.
Several vessels, some of them of large tin-
mage, were driven ashore, and, of course,
went to pieces. They attempted to beat of'
but that dreadful north. easter forbade es.
cape, and they broke up. The crews are
mostly reported to have escaped, but one
very sad occurrence, in which every man on !
board perished, took place in the forenoon
of Saturday at Skerries. A large schooner
rugged vessel struck on the rocks, and went
down in deep water. Not particle of her
hull or rigging could be discovered a few
minutes after, and with the ship perished
the crew to man."