Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-10
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But Twelve Hours Off It's Base
Of Destructive Operations.
The Antipodes "Enveloped in
the Greatest Storm Ever
Witnessed by Man"
So Saith tee Sage Of Canada,
Though Hooted at Home
By His Fellowmen.
The Tentacles of the Migl ty
Octopus Felt in Various
Countries.
A Kansas Man Crawls Into a
Gave and Plugs the
Bung Hole.
An Emigrant ship Wrecked
on the Atlantic and 65
Lives Lost.
While a Manitoba Wave Rolls up
Huge Snow Banks IN Dakota.
Special Dispatches to TIE BEE.

Special Dispatches to THE BEE.
LONDON, March 8. 9.-Owing to heavy
gale the tide In the Clyde Is femarka-
bly, low. The steamers Devonia, Cir
cenian, Manitobian, and several others
were at one time aground. The Hull
fishing fleet suffered seriously by the
gale. Eighty vessels Of the fset ar
rived there In damaged condition.
Twelve of them lost members Of their
crews. Three vessels foundered-one
of them with all hands on board.
Similar accounts were received from
the Yarmouth fishing feet yesterday
LoNDoJ, March 9.-The steamer
Navarro, bound from Copenhagen to
Deith, foundered during the gale yes
terdsy. There were 81 persons,
mostly emigrants, on board, only l6 of
whom were saved.
LONDON, March 9.-Survivors give
the following account of the loss of
the Nevarre Tuesday. When 200 miles
from Ch-istiansand the Nevarre was
struck by heavy sea- The cargo
shifted and Wednesday the forehold
filled. When fishing smack approach.
ed the Nevarre, ten men took boat
and boarded the smack, letting the
small boat adrift. The smack sailed
around the sinking steamer, but hav-
Ing no boat was unable to render as
sistance, the emigrants meantime
clinging to the rigging, the sea wash
Ing over them In short time an
other smack arrived and fifteen of the
Nevarre's men ,endeavored to reach
her In another boat but 1t was
swamped and all were drowned. The
steamer arrived only in time to res.
j. cue six persons struggling In the wa.
ter, the Nevarre foundering. -
Mannall, who for three quarters of
an hour was clinging to pisce of
timber, states the Nevarre pumps
were found to be useless. All on
board baled the vessel as much as
they could The captain seemet
stupefsd. He was hurt Tuesday and
from that time until the vessel sank
drank to keep his spirits up.
Miss Alexandria Holtz and Swede
bound for Minnesota and who lost a
wife and four children, also arrived
at Hull. Msnnsll is an emigration
agent, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Survivors state there were only five
cork jackets on board the Nevarre
Maunsll says the large boat which
the sailors took away without at
tempting to rescue any one, would
have held thirty persons more than
were In 1t.
Twenty-Five persons were on board
the Nevarre when she sank and made
no effort to save themselves. Man
nall charges the captain with cow
ardioe. He says many more might
have been saved.
OTTAWA, March 9 - Great interest
Was taken in Virgins storm. The
weather to-day is spring, Ike, and the
question wss asked, "Where Is the
storm2" In an interview to-day Wig
gins said there seemed to be general
misunderstanding as to when the
storm would begin. "This" he added,
sis no fault of mine, for In my altman
&C this year say under March, that
1t will be first felt In the Northern Pa,
cific on the 10th, will strike this con.
tinent from the southwest on the at
ternoon of Saturday the 10 b; will
cross the continent from east to west
south of parallel Go tomorrow after.
noon, and bsing DETECTED by the
Rocky mountains will pssi
down the great Canadian lakes
towards the east Sunday morning A
great tidal wave must already have
occurred on the Bay of Bengal, and q
tremendous storm must now be raging
over India. If the theory of an oppo,
site tide be true, though I have
always disputed 1t, then tidal wave
will occur on the Gulf of Mexico to.
day. l am glad to know the Glouees'
ter fishermen were wise enough to keeI
In shore, as they must have all psr
ished had they been on the banks o.
New Foundlani yesterday morning
Isuppose there Is not a storm sigma
displayed on all the North American
coasts at this moment, though ther,
will be upon us in few hour
one of the greatest storms tina
has occurred in the memor!
Of any one now living. During tn
last six months I have done every
thing in my power to prevent loss a
sea by keeping shipping In safe hsr
bors from the 5Sh until the 1lth {
March. Whether will get credit @
not felt l had at all events done m
duty to myself and the public. Tn
weather to-day must be mild over tn
western hemisphere for the pressur
Is all upon the opposite side of tn
earth, but will be tram
ferred tr US tomorrow. Remen
ber the storm Is not to begi
until the eleventh In this meridian
1t will be some hours before Its fu
force will be experienced. 1t wi
probably last several days. l see tt
meteorological bureau Of Toronto il