, 1872-12-20
WIND AND WAVE IN DENMARK.
Thrilling Incidents Of the Recent
foundations.

NUEEE8AGENs NQfs IU
For two centuries no such terrible storm and
inundation have been known along the Baltic as
those the lamentab1e objects Of which we are now
witnessing, and even during the tumult Of the
clements in January, 1891, the damage to prop
erty and destruction Of life we're not ut all com
parable With these. The hurricane began to blow
over the Baltic on Wednesday, the 18th Of No
vember, and BY noon OF that day had reached
its eliminating point then it veered from the
northeast through east to southeast, and On the
such atmospheric pressure 90 it had shown be-
fore the setting in Of the gale. On Thursday.
news Of the disaster began to come to tho CITY.
and instantly measures wero taken to relieve tho
sufferers. we had experienced some ehects Of
gale already, the wind had blown in ftful gusts
through the streets, sending tho tiles flying
through the air, rattlfng shutters, and maxi
ing it tolerably dangerous to be abrond
but We had not dreamed that in other places it
had driven the sea over farms and farm-houses
which seems m incredible tale. Hugo trees On
the town walls and in the parks had been broken
and torn up BY the roots aud sent flying through
the Dir almost ike chips and straw, but in other
places the very land itself had been destroyed,
and IN aomo, as in Hummingen, it had
been made to contribute to the sea in such q
way and 80 extensively that it is i'm
probable that it will ever again appear above
the surface. This Hummiugen was 1ow-lying
peninsula jutting out between tho sea and the
houses and farm lands, and during that terrible
gale every inhabitant WAS drowned and every
farm destroyed. The newspapers are filed With
the most narrowing accounts Of the distressing
adventures OF the people On that wild day. They
describe the first appearance Of the waves as
looking like that Of . white thing" seen far OF
nboYe the crests OF the sea; it came onward with
dreadful swiftness, foaming, LjEeing, tunbline
and roaring, and then the terrified people saw
that 1t WAS series Of waves, the first OF which
thTGA faaf 1irt, Sab
to the shore, behind it still others moro tower
ing than 1tsolf; The people eseayed to dy, and
almost INSTANTLY we're lifted from their feet and
swept inward with the Waves, which rushed over
the meadows and fertile fields, converting them
.1ae.. INTO barren sea: The waters in many places
from opposite sides formed ialands wLers
previously Pr the lands we're contiguous.
Inc Islands were covered with gravel and sanc
End it will be long before they Will again be- ft
19I Fnstar n the parish Of Gjedesby on
down end washed off, si1ty-fve were SO injured
as to be rendered pninbabitnble, and but nine
stand secure. Here twelve cogpses have been
found, but it is known that many more people
ner1shed mlRerably in the wares, In the DaltB
over by the water, and all their inhabitants
we're drowned, Upon the fiat islands OF
Lolland aud Foster tie water mounted as high
aa seven feet above it's usual level, leaped over
dlkes and emhankments, which afforded scarcely
any, 9ra ana thas put omentary projection, and
thIa city, and in the harbor, the water rose
hardly perceptibly, but in the Bay OF kjocse the
gale drove it up five feet; and, further down,
between seeland and Bornbolm, the prodigious
and steam vessels. and cent them driving
headlong, turned many Of them keel up-
warda, and made them utter wrecks along tie
coasts OF Fa1a and lIaesto D~Gs. IAe Lazbo1