The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-15
1t Sweeps Over Great Britain
with Great Fury.
THE ADMIRALTY PIER AT DOVER
1t is Torn to Pieces-The City of Rome that
Was Reported Lost Was Tramp
Steamer, not the Anchor Liner.


most severe weather, were unable to cross
last night From all sections come reports
OF damage done and lives endangered. 1t
Is impossible yet to give an approximate
idea OF the damage done on land and sea, or
the lives lost. At Helensburg, watering
place on the Firth of Clyde, the streets are
Hooded and the people driven from their
homes. Two passenger trains running be-
tween Glasgow and Helensburg were
brought to standstill by waves which
threatened to wash away the tracks. The
hres were put out and the engines unable
10 move. Escape from the cars is mpos-
siole. All attempts to reach the travellers
hare failed.
Dispatches from Dover Kent. say the
hurricane was worse than the blizzard of
March last. The Ostend boat was unable
to approach near the shelter of the pier of
Dover, and was driven out to sea again,
since which time she has not been hea of,
put 1t is thought she reached some place of
safety elsewhere along the coast and the
telegraph wires being down, she has been
unable to make her whereabouts known.
OF recent years by the expenditure of i'm
mense sums OF money Dover has been made
"harbor OF refugee" long, powerfully
built ietties having been thrown out sea
ward and huge granite pier, called the
Admiralty pier, one third of mile long,
having been built. At the commencement
OF the storm the pier and jetties were con-
tinually washed by the waves and never
has the pounding the pier has received been
SO severe. great amount of damage has
been done, huge granite blocks, of several
tons weight, bsing washed out of place in
spite OF the iron work and cement which
held them, and little more than the bare
foundation remains. The Oldest veteran
seamen admit they do not remember hav-
ing seen worse weather and heavier seas
OF the English coast. Great danger was
experienced by pedestrians on the streets
OF Dover owing to the falling of tiles,
| states and bricks from chimneys which had
been toppled over by the bowling wind A
number of more or less serious accidents
have been reported. In one street. it has
| been reported by the police a stack of
brick chlmneys were hurled down with
such force IL smashed in the roof upon
which it fell and buried in ruins the in
mates OF the house, number of women
and children being badly injured by the
crashing of the rafters ana tiles.
At Sunderland the hurricane unroofed a
factory, the tall chimney of which fell upon
the house and seriously injured four per.
sons.
This afternoon the gale in the channel
was increasing aad ell steamers were
forced to make some harbor Additional
reports from Glasgow say the storm is I'm.
| oouotedly the most severe since the ter.
rlble lay bridge disaster The ship IRA.
MIA broke from her moorings sand crashed
into the Italian berkentine Girolmina
The latter's fore mast snapped
and the vessel was completely
dlsmasted. Both vessels then drifted
down stream, their crews beng utterl,
powerless to control them. Finally the
Uranla crushed into the sheds of the
Anchor Line Steamship company, and this
enabled her TO be captured ard made fsst
! Two coastlng vessels have foundered in
Loch Long, a branch of the Firth of Clyde
anu six of their crews have been drowned
The ship Helen Brewer capslzed at Glas
Cow, and over dozen yachts, a number OF
coastlng vessels and many lighters are
ashore in the Clyde. Four of the STRANDED
| lighters have already sunk, and severa
! others are almost certain to become tota
wrecks. The steamship Auchoria, of the
Anchor line, grounded at Greenock owine
TO the force of the hurricane. All incoming
steamers report having encountered fear
full weather.
kilograms from Yelling borough on thu
Northwestern railroad, state a theatre
| there has been blown down. A large an.
dience had barely left the building nen ,
| powerful blast swept down and reduced i
| to shapeless pile of lumber and bricks
Had the building fallen moment sooner ,
number of people would have been buried
in the ruins.
The gale has subsidized, II pm. OWNS
to the damaged coalition of the telegram
lines 1t is impossible to obtain full details
of the storms ravages. 1t is thought tht
losses of life and property are com
paratively small when the vast ex
tent of the storm is considered. Re.
ports continue to be received of floods il
the villages of Trent, Wye and Avon
Many farms in Nomenclature have beer
devastated, and the loss of crops aud cattle
is considerable.
AT Cardiff the great breakwater wa:
| partly destroyed and in addition TO those i
is reported that many coasters have gon,
| ashore
The Ostend steamer which usual,
makss the trip to Dover in three or fouI
hours, was out eleven hours under full
steam. and then was compelled to put bacl
without making the trip. All communication
with the continent has been retarded to AZ
extent never equalled. A coal-lader
steamer grounded off Hollywood where
beyond the reach of aid, the cargo tool
fire, burning the vessel to the water
edge.
The gale also traversed France, but in ;
much milder form. Trees and chimney!
were more or less damaged in Paris, ant
the Rhine and other rivers, particularly il
southern France, oyerhowed their banks
doing considerable damage to crops ant
houses, chiefly in the neighborhood o
Lyons. 4 telegram from Foli.stone saws
steamer was sighted off that port Is dis
tress, but the local life crew was unable Il
reach her, owing to the heavy sea, and it i
feared the steamer will become a tota
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