The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-13
ENGLAND'S AWFUL GALE.
STORIES OF SHIPwRECK STILL
COMING IN.

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Returns in Safety. But No Trace
Found of the Vessel They Went in
Search Of-No Estimate Yet Made
NJ the Heavy Loss of Life.
LONDON, Nov. 12-Though at midnight
last night the great gale in England had
snbsided and the dark, heavy storm clouds
had passed away to the northward over the
\ C,a,man ocean, it seems that the storm is
still prevailing In Northwestern Ireland. A
disnatch received this morning from Skib-
bsreeu. forty miles southwest Of Cork, on
,be river lien, states that gale is raging
there with great fury. Many houses at
Skibbereen and some at Oldcourt. the port
If skibbereen, two miles below the town,
are greatly damaged. The gale now pre-
calling in that portion of ireland is believed
IN be the first Of the storm which the
weather indications last night showed was
snproaching the coast from the Atlantic.
MANY FISHERMEN PERISH.
Echoes of yesterdays storm are still
heard. From Ramsgate, on the east coast
If the Isle of Thanet, on Kent, from which
mort many fishermen sail daily to pursue
their perilous calling, comes intelligence
tSat some Of the hardy residents of that
town have made their last cruise. A fishing
smack hailing from Ramsgate reached
home this morning after a terrible expert
epce, She was caught 10 the full
fury of the storm and was terribly
battered by the pounding she received by
the tremendous rollers which swept by the
channel from the Atlantic. The smack is
badly damaged, put those on board OF her
are glad to have escaped the fate which has
befallen so many of their class, and are con-
graduating themselves that they are once
more ashore.
FOUR SWEPT OVERHEARD.
But not all the men who sailed ia her have
returned to the families who looked anxi-
ously for their coming. Four of her crew,
while assisting in handling the smack in the
worst Of the gale. were swept overheard by
gigantic cumber, which came ahead of the
vessel. Those on board were helpless to
save their companions Not for an
instant could they relax their vigilance in
watching the vessel, and even had it been
possible to spare some men to man a boat,
il would have been death to them to have
attempted to put a boat in the water. II
was all the crew could do TO keep their smack
afloat. and so they were compelled to lei
their comrades drown.
LIFE-sAvERs PERISH.
There is great excitement at Southport,
at the mouth of the Ribble, on the Irish
sea, over the fate of the crew Of llfe-boat-
men who went out yesterday to attempt to
save the crew of a vessel which was in dis
tress off that place. The hfe-boat was
fully manned and the crew pulled pluckily
off shore and were soon hidden by the tre-
mendous seas. The crowd on shore waited
aud waited for the return Of the crew,
but they did not come back. Up
TO this morning no intelligence of them has
been received, and by many they have been
given up as lost. Their families, hoping
against hope, try TO console themselves with
the belief that the gallant life~savers, unable
to return to Southport, have effected land
ing at some unfrequented part Of the coast
and that they will soon be heard from.
There is hardly any doubt among those ac-
Quainted with the dangers OF that part of
the coast that the life-boat has foundered
and that every soul on her has found a
watery grave.
The steamer Hawarden Castle was
wrecked at the mouth of the Mersey last
night. The men took refuge in the rigging.
Four bodies have been washed ashore from
the wreck The Transatlantic liners Brit
tanic and City of New York LETT port In
n the teeth of the gale. QuartermasteT
Mckenzie of the Brittanic was carried
overheard in the Irish sea.
The American schooner Drury has been
wrecked at Grand Cagman. No lives were
Lost
The SpanIsh bark Fama de Canaries re.
ports that the American schooner Will
lam L. Bradley, which sailed from Charles
ton Oct for Weymouth, Mass, cap
sized in the gale on Oct. Is. The captain
Of the Bradley was saved. The fate of the
crew is unknown.
THE LIFEBoAT LANDS
LONDON, Nov. 12, IL P. M.-The cheering
tidings came over the wires this Afternoon
that the Southport lifeboat had succeeded
in reaching shore in safety. The lifeboa
reached spot were the distressed vesse
she had started to succor was last seen, but
when she got there all trace of the vesse
had disappeared. When they landed the,
were greeted as though they had returnel
from the dead.
A French torpedo boat was capsized il
the Brest roads during the hurricane. TIL
crew were saved.
THE GALE IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Nov. Yesterdays gale cause,
an immense amount of damage in all part
OF France. Many temporary buildings de
voted to panoramas, circuses and the hk
were destroyed.
Two persons were killed at Partly, nea
Rouen, by falling debris.
a youth had Els neck broken at Havre b.
being struck by the covering Of a van
which had been blown of by the gale.
Several vessels were wrecked at FecamI
on the English channel The rescue Q
thelr crews was attended with exciting
scenes. Only one man was drowned.
Fishermen along the coast suffered heav,
losses in boats and gear.
=, The hospital at Lorient took fire durin
tne gale and the flames spread with sue
rapldity that ordinary means of exit wer
cut on, and the patients had to be rescue
jured.
Inc force Of the hurricane extended as fa
Us Marseilles on the Mediterranean sea.
AT Dunkirk dynamite vessel, which ha
oeeh abandoned by her crew, drifted froI
heI mornings and sank.
AT Boulogne many fishing boats pounde
W pieces on the shore, and it is feared the
otners have foundered.
Inc storm was felt with unusual severit
snroughout Belgium and shipping suffere
severely.
EIGHT PERISH. ef@--.'es. -.
MADRID, Nov. lathe sloop Julio we
were drowned