Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-10
AN OUTBREAK FEARED
Taking Measures at Rio Janeiro to
Prevent an Uprising.
GREAT BRITAIN SWEPT BY STORMS.
Testimony for the Government in
the Banaby Case.
EXPLOSION OF MOLTEN METAL
BRITAIN STORM SWEET.
An Immense Amount of Damage and Many
Fatalities Caused.

An Immense Amount of Damage and Many
| Fatalities Caused.
| LONDON, Dec. 10.-The gale which set in last
night has already done an immense amount Of
damage and has been attended with a number
of fatalities. The storm is fully equal in vio-
lence to the two gales which have recently
prevailed along tine English channel and
| over Great Britain and Ireland. The
| meteorological disturbances which have &C.
| CURED during the past few months have sell
dom. il ever. been paralleied in recent
hare been SO widespread and disastrous
that it will take long time for
the people, especially farmers to recover from
them. The damage to shipping has been ex,
| tremely heavy. In fact the losses incurred
| throug h wrecks and other maritime disasters
have been SO extraordinarily great that many
underwriters have not been able to stand the
pecuniary strain.
Underwriters GIVE CP.
Up to today fourteen Of the underwriters
who were engaged in taking risks at Lloyds
have withdrawn from the business. They have
resigned from Lloyds. giving rs their reason
their inability to stand the losses they
have incurred through the recent disasters
caused by the phenomenally severe gales which
have swept over the Atlantic and along the
British and Irish coasts.
The gale at the present writing q 80 pm.
shows not the least sign OF abatement; on the
contrary it seems to grow i'll violence as the
day grows oldef Reports are being received
from all parts OF the country and they ali con-
is as severe. if not severer, than
any Of its predecessors. From every
direction kilograms are pouring In describing
the great damage already wrought by the
storm Giant trees that had wi;hstood the
s,orm ms of years have been torn up by the roots
or pka, E.IF bt-f ha fore of fla win In
some instances the tops of the trees have
been whipped of and carried long dis
tances through the air. Houses have been
unroofed, chiinneys blown down, outhouses
demolished and fences destroyed. A large
number OF cases are reported where persons
have been very seriously injured by being
| struck by fallin:: bricks and tiles or by being
caught up by the gale and dashed against
barbed wire fences and other distractions.
At Darlington, in Shropshire, the chimney
crashed through the roof and fell upon the
landlord and his wife. who we're in room di-
rectly beneath tine roof. The man was killed
and his wife YVES 80 badly injured that it is not
expected she viii live.
GALE IN THE CHANNEL
In the channel the gale is blowing with great
fury and very nasty sea is running. 1t is
very certain that disaster will overtake many
vessels that have not been able to make har-
Dor Of refuge.
Tho Downs are full Of vessels of every de-
scription thai have put in for shelter and are
riding at anchor waiting for the gale to sub
side. The hurricane, for it is nothing
else. really has already caused
the loss of number of small
coasting vessels along the south coast Of Eng
land. The life boat crews at RamsSate and
Dover have gone to the assistance Of vessels
| near those places which have been flying sig
mails of distress.
This storm affords another argument in favor
of the establishment of Geographic and tele-
phonic communication between isolated points
and the various lifc-savinS stations. for
which agitation is now being car
ried on. 1t il claimed by the
supporters of this scheme tina. many lives of
shipwreehcd people might be saved every year
were iipossibie to communicate promptly with
the places where life boats are located