The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-15
Immense Loss by Storm in Great
Britain and Ireland.
THE DOVER JETTY DESTROYED.
A Large Number of C0asting Vessels
Engulfed or Driven Ashore.
The Cattle Steamer City OF Rome Lost
on the Newfoundland Coast-waves
Thirty Feet High at Rockaway-
More Earthquakes in California.

LONDON. Oct 1.-THE furious gales
which have been raging all over England,
Ireland and South Scotland for over twen-
ty-four hours continue today. Passenger
boats which usually venture out in the
most severe weather were unable to cross
the channel last night. From all sections
comes the report of damage done and
lives endangered. 1t is impossible yet to
give an approximate idea of the dam
age done on land and sea or the lives lost.
Dispatches from Dover, Kent, say the
hurricane is worse than the blizzard of
March last. An Ostend boat was unable
to approach the shelter of the pier of
Dover and was driven out to sea again,
since which time she has not peen heard
OF, but it is thought she reached some
place of shelter along the coast, and the
telegraph wires being down she has been
unable to make her whereabouts known.
VI recent years, by the expenditure of i'm
mense sums of money, Dover has been
made harbor of refuge. long, powerfully
built jetties having been thrown out to
seaward, and a huge granite pier
called 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 received has been so severe that a
great amount of damage has been done to
1t, huge blocks of granite of several tons
weight being washed out of place in spite
OF the iron work and cement which holds
them, and little more than bare founda-
ton remains. The oldest seamen admit
that they do not remember worse weather
and heavier seas off the English coast
Great danger was experienced by pedes-
trans on the streets of Dover, owing
to the falling tiles, states and
bricks from the chimneys which have been
toppled over by the wind. A number of
more or less serious accidents have been
reported. In one street, it has been re-
ported by the police, brick chimney was
hurried down with such force that it
smashed in the roof upon which it fell.
and buried in the ruins the inmates of the
house. A number of women and children
were badly injured by the crashing rafters
and tiles
At Sunderland the hurricane unroofed
factory, the tall chimney of which fell
upon house and seriously injured four
persons. This afternoon the gale in the
channel is increasing and all the steamers
were forced to make some harbor.
Additional reports from Glasgow say the
storm is undoubtedly the most severe
since the terrible Tay bridge disaster. The
ship Urania broke from her moorings and
crashed into the Italian barkentine GiroI-
NINA. The latter's foremast snapped and
the vessel was completely dismantled.
Both vessels then drifted down the stream.
the crews being utterly powerless to con-
troll them. Finally the Urania crashed
into the sheds of the Anchor Line Steam
ship Company, and this enabled her to be
captured and made fast. Two coastinp
vessels have foundered in Loeb Long
branch of the Firth Of
Clyde, and six of their crews were
drowned. The ship Helen Brewer cap-
sized at Glasgow, and over dozen Yachts
a number of coasting vessels and manv
lighters are ashore in the Clyde Fonr
stranded lighters have already sunk and
several others are almost certain to he.
come total wrecks. The steamship An
choria, of the Anchor line, grounded at
Greenock, owing to the force of the hurri
cane. All the incoming steamers report
having encountered fearful weather.
At Helensburg, watering-place on the
Firth of Clyde, the streets were flooded
and the people driven from their homes
Two passenger trains between GLASGOW
and Helensburg have been brought To a
standstill by waves which threatened m
wash away the track. The fires have been
pat out and the engines unable to move
Escape from the cars is impossible. and all
attempts To reach the travellers have failed
kilograms from Wellingborough. on the
Northwestern railroad, state that a tbeater
there has been blown down. The LARGE
audience had barely left the building when
a powerful blast swept down and reduced
it to shapeless pile of lumber and bricks.
Had the building fallen moment sooner
a number of people would have been
buried in the ruins.
The gale subsided at IL p. m. Owinp In
the damaged condition of the telegram
lines it is impossible to obtain full details
of the storms ravages. 1t is thought that
the losses of life and property are compar-
atively small when the vast extent of the
storm is considered. Reports continue to
be received of floods in the valleys of the
Trent, Wye and Avon. Many farms in
Monmouthshire have been devastated and
lhS ioSS Ol crops anu Cattie Is considerable.
At Cardiff the great breakwater was
partly destroyed, and in addition to those
reported many of the coasters have pona
ashore. The Ostend steamer, which nsn-
ally makes the trip to Dover in three or
four hours, was out eleven hours under
full steam, and then was compelled to mt
back without making the trip. All COM
munication with the continent has beep
retarded 10 an extent never eaualed
cOal-laden steamer grounded off Holly.
wood, where she is beyond the reach of
aid. The cargo took fire, burning the
vessel to the waters edge.
telegram from Folkestone saws a
steamer was sighted off that port in dis.
tress, but the local lifeboat crew was nm.
able to reach her, owing TO the heavy sea
and 1t is feared the steamer will become
total wreck
The gale also traversed France. but in a
much milder form. Trees and chimnevs
were more or less damaged in Paris. and
the Rhone and other rivers, particularly
those in Southern France, overtiowed their
banks, doing considerable damage to crops
and houses, chiefly in the neighborhood of
Lyons.
LONDON. Oct. 1.-THE ST. James Gasette
SAYS: Not within recent memory
has such a terrific storm ragged in Eng
land or has such terrible catalogue of
disaster at sea been experienced. Great
damage has been done Ill many parts of
fhe country ~