Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-29
BRITAIN'S FEARFUL GALE
SCORES OF LIVES T,OST Ann
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.

| 'A-7SGL4S WRECKED.
Several Barks and shins K
Georgia, Florida and South Caroling
Among the Unfortunate Crafts-OD.
Boats Entire Crew of Twenty five Los
-Frighttul Times Ashore.
LONDON, Jan. 2s.-It has been now
dennltely ascertained that all the mem
Ders OF the ship Slmla's crew, supposed tC
have been drowned in Fridays collision
with the City of Lucknow, have beer
rescued. Thus no lives were lost by the
coliislon OF the Simla with the City o.
Lucknow. The Lucknow has arrived al
! GraYesend.
THE GALE IN ENGLAND,
LONDON, Jan. 28.-Railway traffic has
been greatly impeded by the storm Of
saturday and Sunday. A heavy snow fall
prevailed throughout the country.
AT Iorquay there were many casual.
ties. A mail cart was overturned bv the
violence OF the wind, gas lamp posts were
| blown down and trees uprooted. Many
LOats were swamped.
On the Isle of Wight, a lady was knock
broken. 20
m AT NeWry, many houses were unroofed.
The police barracks were rendered unten-
able ana the police were compelled to
take refuge in the court house.
At Leeds the roof of a dwelling col
lapsed. killing the daughter of q workman
and lnJuring his four sons.
A mail train between Durham and Dar-
llngton was twice stopped by the gale.
NO boats were allowed to leave Ports
mouth. The Free-Thinkers hall there was
completely demolished by the wind.
Inc hurricane demolished an iron chapel
at Newcastle. The roof IN falling killed
womanand two children.
THE FATE OF THE NOKONIs,
The British bark Nokomis, Capt. Muir
ply, which sailed from Londonderry Janu-
airy l9 for Baltimore, and which returned
TO Lough Foyle for shelter, parted her
caDles ana was driven to sea. 1t is feared
that vessel and all hands have been lost.
LONDON, Jan. %, IL P. M.-The bark
NOkomls, before reported as driven out to
sea from the anchorage in Loeb Foyle
where she had taken refuge from Satur-
days gale, is total wreck at Port
Stewart. The crew perished.
CREW OF TWENTY-FIVE LOST.
The Juno, bound from Liverpool for
Calcutta, has foundered in the Marsey. All
hands, numbering twenty-five, were lost.
The Norwegian bark Alma, from Da-
rien, Ga, has been driven ashore at Mary
port. The crew was saved.
The bark Wassama, from Gloucester
for Pensacola, has put in at Penarth
Roads. She lost her sails and bulwarks,
had her stanchiOns smashed and was
otherwise damaged.
The British brig James Mason, from
Coosaw, 5. c., for Londonderry, previous
~ reported put into Greenock, has lost
her bulwarks, is badly strained and is
leaky.
The Norwegian ship Telefon. from Liv-
erpool for Pensacola, has returned to
Liverpool and been docked.
Inc park Caspian, Capt. Dolb, from Da-
rIen, Ga, which went aground on the 25th
instant, when entering the port of Ant
werp, has broken in halves.
The bark Tikoma, from Liverpool Janu-
airy Ii for Tybee, has returned.
Inc Norwegian bark BjOrnstierna. from
charleston for Liverpool is ashore at the
mouth OF the Mersey river. The crew,
except the carpenter, were saved.
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION ASHORE.
LONDON, Jan. 2S, II: 80 P. Mas the
restoration Of telegraph communication
progresses news of the disasters caused
by the gales continues to pour in, The
mail steamer Thibet, for Bombay, has re.
turned to Plymouth disabled, having en-
countered terrific gale 123 miles south
west of Eddystone light.
The breakwater at Port Erin, Isle Of
Man, the construction of which cost { TO-
600, has been entirely destroyed.
Dainllth's wire factory, near Widnes.
has been demolished, the buildings. en-
glnes. boilers, etc, being mass of ruins.
REPORTS STILL POURING IN.
LONDON, Jan. 30, , A. M.-RepOrts of
damages caused by the late gale continue
to arrive. The meteorological office finds
1t quite impossible to prepare any fore
east for the North at New Castle on the
Tyne. The spIre of All Saints Church is
badly damaged and the roof partially de-
strOyed.
On the Letterkenny Railway, in Ire
land, train was overturned.
Near Londonderry sixty Yards of en-
bankment on the Northern Railway were
swept away.
A mail train had narrow escape from
destruction.
TWO SUGAR LADEN VESSELS ABANDONED.
HALIFAX, n. s., Jan. 2S.-Within the
past week two vessels laden with sugar
Tor a Nova Scotia refinery have been re-
ported abandoned at sea. The cargos.
which are insured in foreign offices, were
valued at $4,000.