The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-12
Like Us Of NOAH.
Floods Descend Once More on Eng
land and the Winds Are
Abroad,
The Two Elements Work Incal-
culable Damage on Land
and Sea.
Scores Of Vessels Sunk in tho Channel or
Driven Ashore-F Formers scourged
With AHltction.


Ireland, and already dispatches have been
storm. From Hythe. on the English chan
mel, comes the report OF the wreck OF an
English schooner. The crew got ashore
safely but the captain. his wife and son
perished. AT Sand Gate the ship Benvenu
was wrecked. Her crew took to the rig
ging, and an attempt was made by the life
savers to rescue them, but the sea was too
high. Another vessel is reported ashore
close to where the Benvenu lies. Later re-
ports from Sand Gate say that all hope of
saving the crew of the Benvenu have
been abandoned. The bodies Of sew
eral victims have been cast >upon
the beach. A body of troops has been
sent to aid life savers along the Sand Gate
section of the coast in their efforts to
render assistance to distressed vessels and
their crews. A telegram has been received
from Scilly island. stating that schooner
had been wrecked there, though the crew
was saved. The vessel Paramount was
sunk off Lowestoft, in Suffolk, all hands on
board except two sailors being drowned. In
London the storm did considerable damage
to buildings in course of erection. A dis
patch has been received from st. Leonards,
the we'll known watering place in Sussex,
announcing that the bark Amor had
stranded near that town. Her Grew took
to the rigging. The only hope for the
wrecked sailors is that the storm may sub
side before they die Of cold. Interruption
of telegraph service is general throughout
southwest England.
A dispatch from Sand Gate this evening
says the life boat crew made another siren
uous, but fruitless, effort to reach the Ben
venu. Some OF the crew, exhausted by
their long exposure, became SO weakened
that they found il impossible to longer
cling to the rigging and dropped into the
waters and soon sank from sight. Others
were still in the rigging. thousands Of
people gathered along the shore sympa-
theticall watching every attempt to save
the lives of the shipwrecked sailors. The
storm caused considerable damage through
ont the southern counties OF England and
fishing hoatsStar of the East while entering
port crashed against a pier and was
wrecked, six of the crew being drowned.
Reports of many other shipwrecks are
coming in.
Tt ia believed the storm has spent its
force and that when the final estimate Of
damages is made it will be found that the
loss is much greater than that incurred
through any storm that has prevailed for
years. Reports from tho gale-swspt dis
tricts are very slow coming in. but those
thus far received show that the damage
must be widespread and very heavy. The
damage to property at Folkestone and Deal
is very great. The roofs Of houses were
blown off and the streets strewn with
states and tiles. At Christ Church the riv-
ers were swollen by the excessively heavy
rains which accompanied the gale. They
have overflowed their banks, flooding the
country and part of the town. Farmers in
midland counties are growing discouraged
at the misfortunes pursuing them. In
these counties previous gales and floods
did an immense amount of damage. In
some sections water was just subsiding and
farmers had begun to look forward to
blowing and preparing land for autumn
sowing. Now the waters have again sub
merged the land. The rivers are rapidly
rising and it is feared there will be gen
eral repetition of the floods.
Part of the life saving crew at
Hythe, while engaged in rescuing a ship
wrecked crew. were swept from; their boat
and drowned. From Dungeness. too, comes
q story of the loss of some brave lifeboat-
men. A foreign bark went ashore at that
place and the lifeboatmen started gallantly
to the rescue. A tremendously heavy sea
was running and the lifeboat uapsized and
all hands went overheard. Five of the crew
were swept away before they could grasp
life lines and although they wore cork
jackets they were lost. The other men
succeeded in righting their boat and
in. Several vessels are ashore
between Dungeness and Dover, and it is
feared they will 60 to pieces and the Grew
perish before assistance can get to them.
A number of vessels in distress have been
driven past Sand Gate. 1t WAS impossible
to do anything to relieve them on account
Df the tremendous heavy seas.
Part of the roof of the Ludgate hill sta
lion, in London, has been blown off. A
dispatch from Loweston announces that a
scotch lugger capsized off that port to- day,
and SIX of the crew were drowned. I'm
known vessels are reported wrecked at
many points, Great anxiety prevails on the
sast and south coast M to the fate Of hun
lrsds of fishing boats which put to sea yes
terday, lursd by the fine weather then pre-
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