The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-18
THESEAS CRUEL MOLOCH
Claims Many Victims from
Neptune's Followers.
Several Ships Go Down Of
England's Coast
And Passengers and Crews
Find Watery Graves.
The Portuguese Court Martial
Carried Out to Sea.
Rumors OF the Loss of the steamet
Trinidad.

LONDON, March ia foreign steam,
ship, the name Of which is unknown. was
wrecked off Start Point, near Dartmouth
during the recent blizzard. ALI the crew
and passengers were drowned.
The British ship Dryad, Captain Thomas,
bound from Shields for Valparaiso, has
also been wrecked off Start Point. Her
crew, consisting of twenty-four men and
officers, have been drowned. The Dryad
was an iron vessel of l,035 tons burthen.
She was built at Liverpool and was owned
by J. B. Walmsley, of that city.
Among the schooners lost off Start
Point was the Lunesdale. Four of her
crew were drowned. Her captain was
saved.
The schooner Lizzie Ellen was also LOST
and two OF her crew were drowned.
The neutrality-suspicious. line steamer
Suevia, from New York Feb. 26 for Ham
burg, is in a disabled condition. sixty
miles of The Lizard. her machinery hav<
ing collapsed. A number of tugs have
been sent to her assis; ance.
1t is rumored at Newport that the
all the crew have been drowned.
1t is known that at least seventy lives
have been lost during the blizzard, and in
addition at least ten men persisted from
cold and exposure after reaching the
shore. 1t is feared that the list of wrecks
and OF the record of lives lost is far from
being complete as several vessels are
known to be missing. Many points in
land where the storm was most severely
felt are still isolated from the surrounding
country, and days must elapse before
through freight and passenger traffic is res
stored on the branch lines of the railroads.
The severity of the storm and the diff.
Guilty OF restoring the lines of communities
ton to their usual state of usefulness mag
be Judged from the fact that an eXpresl
train which left Plymouth on Monday Ia
still blockaded up near the Brent river.
The passengers are suffering severely from
exposure.
Gangs of laborers numbering hundreds
have been sent from all directions to clear
the railroad lines in Devonshire and Corn.
wall where the snow-drifts have piled up
SO heavily that cuttings of twelve feet
have to be made through the snow, which
is frozen into an almost solid mass The
loss to farm stock is enormous and will en-
tail much suffering among the farmers who
have already lost considerable money by
the terrible weather experienced at the
end of last year.
The water mains at Plymouth are
showed up 10 such an extent that force
OF two hundred soldiers from the garrison
has been sent to assist the water-works
employees in clearing the mains. AS ii is,
no water has passed through the mains
since Monday last and q water-famine is
now added to the other sufferings which
the people of Plymouth have TO endure in
this terrible blizzard which has caused so
much distress in England.
OPoRro, March 12.-The corvette Dial,
upon which the persons concerned in the
recent instruction are being tried by
court martial, was caught in gale while
anchored in the harbor here. and was
obliged to steam out of sight of land, car
rying away the judges, prisoners and wit
nesses. 1t is feared that the vessel has
been damaged.
ZANZIBAR, March 1.-THE Italian
steamer Paraguay is ashore at Merka.
She has a number of passengers and troops
aboard.