The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-15
STORMS BEAT FUR|OUSLY
And Many Luckless Craft Was
Driven Ashore and Badly
Damaged.
The Oldest Mariner Unable to Re-
call q Storm Of Equal
.ts .s, Severity.
Excitement Over the Reported Loss Of the
City OF Rome--Not this Anchor
Limo Boat.

lonrs, continued all day. The passenger
Doata which usually venture out In the most
seyere weather, we're unable to CROSS the
,hhnnel last night. From all sections come
reports OF damage done and lives endan-
gered. II is impossible YET to give an.
idea OF the damage done on
land and sea, or the lives lost. At Helens-
burg. watering place on the Firth OF
Clyde, the streets we're flooded and people
driven from their homes. Two passenger
trains between Glasgow nnd Helensburg
were brought to a stand still by the waves,
which. threatened to wash away the tracks.
The fires were put out and the engines were
unable to move. Escape froA the cars is
impossible and all attempts to reach the
travellers nave failed.
Dispatches from Dover and Kent say the
hurricane was worse than the blizzard of
March last. The Ostend boat Was unable
to approach near the shelter pier of Dover
and was driven out to sea again, since
which time she has not been heard of, bnt
it is thought she reached some place of
shelter along the coast, and telegraph wires
being down she has been unable to make
her whereabouts known. OF recent years,
by the expenditure of immense sums of
money, Dover has been made a harbor of
refuge. long, powerfully built jetties hav-
ing been thrown out seaward and a huge
granite pier, called an admiralty pier, one
third Of mile long having been built. At
the commencement Of the storm the pier
and jetties were continually washed by the
waves and now the pounding the pier has
srwrl knrN Nanv or
amount Of damage has been done it, Huge
granite blocks of several tons weight have
been washed out of place in spite of the
iron walls and cement which held them
and little more than the bare foundations
are remaining. The Oldest veteran seamer
admit they do not remember having seer
worse weather and heavier seas off tht
English coast.
| Great danger was experienced by pc les
trians on the streets of Dover, owing tx
falling tiles, states and bricks from chin
nsys which have besn toppled over by the
howIing wind. A number of more Or less
serious accidents have been reported. Ii
one street, it has been reported by the po
lice, a brick chimney was hurled down witt
such force that it smashed in the roof upor
which it fell and buried in the ruins th'
inmates of the house. number OF wome1
and children, who we're badly injured b,
crashing rafters and tiles. At Sudderlant
the hurricane unroofed factory. the tai
chimney of which fell upon house ane
seriously injured four persons.
! This afternoon the gale i'll the channe
increased, and all steamers were forced t.
make some harbor. Additional reports
| from Glasgow say the storm was undoubt
edly the most severe since the terrible la.
bridge disaster. The snip Urania brok
from her noorinQs and crashed into tn
italian barkentine Girolmina. The latter
foremast snapped, and the vessel wa
completely dismantled. Both vessel
then drifted down the stream, th
crews being utterly powerless to contro
them. Finally the Urania crashed into tn
sheds of the Anchor Line Steamship com
pany, and this enabled her to be captured
have foundered in Loeb Long, branch o
the Firth of Clyde, and six of their GREY
have been drowned. The ship Helel
Brewer capsized at Glasgow and over
dozen yachts, a number of coasting vessel
and many lighters are ashore, in Clyde
Four of the stranded lighters have alread,
sunk, and several others are almost certain
to become total wrecks. The steamship An
choria. of the Anchor line. grounded
Greenock, owing to the force OF the hurri
| cane All incoming steamers report hav
ing encountered fearful weather.
kilograms from Wellingborough, on Ia
Northwestern railroad. state that theatr
1 tlere nAQ JOSH DlOWA uOWA.i = Aot kS ouNA
ence had barely left the building when
powerful blast swept it down and reduces
it to shapeless pile of lumber and bricks
Had the building fallen moment soone
a number of people would have been burle'
in the ruins.
The gale has subsidized at IL p. n. OWN
to the damaged condition OF telegraph line
it is impossible to obtain full details of tn
stcrm's ravages. 1t is thought the losse
Of life and property will be comparntivel
small, when the vast extent OF the storm !
considered. Reports continue to be re
ceived of floods in the valleys of Trent, Wy
and Avon. Many farms in Monmouthshir
have been devastated and the loss o
crops and cattle is considerable. At Car
diff the great breakwater was partly az
stroyed, and in addition to those reporte
many coasters have gone ashore. Inc "
tend steamer, which usually makes the tri
to Dover in three or four hours. was on
eleven hours under full steam, and the
was compelled to put back without maxim
the trip. All communication with the cor
tinent has been retarded to an extent neve
equaled. coal-laden steamer grounde
off Hollywood. where, beyond reach of aid
the cargo took fire, burning the vessel
the waters edge.
The gale also traversed France, but in
much milder form. Trees and chimney
we're more or less damaged in Paris, All
the Rhine and other rivers particularly !
souShern France, overflowed their bank
doing considerable damage to crops an
houses, chiefly i'll the naiRhborhood I
Lyons. A telegram from Folkestone says
steamer was sighted off that port In distro.
but the local life boat crew was unable :
reach her, owing to the heavy sea, and 1T
feared the steamer will become tot
wreck.