Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-15
VICTIMS Or THU STORM
Several Lives Lost In the Winds
CT The Atlantic Coast
FURIOUS Gales OFF TIE IRISH COAST
r~sasy Pisssurs sssssfs swept oas fass
fns Raging ocean ssd pfosssd.
Fsrlss kaeoanteFcs is Hrs~
eeinE tbs " Eseked.

Nav YoEK. Oct l4-The World says
that probably twenty lives were Iost
Of RockawaY beach by the storm Of
sunday and sunday night. Among
them were George White. Alfred Kane,
Mark 1hursby aud Alden Little. Of
New York. who started out Sunday
afternooa IN two boats 70 fish for shark.
The storm came up shortly after they
started and their craft were eapsized
and ali on board lost.
sunday afternoon Charles p. Frey
let out eatboat and SIX small boats AZ
Hollands station. up IN, beach The
eatbOat carried 9 dssinZ party of ave
men and the small boats eleven men
Z hey went up the bay TOYS ards the Inlet
Nothing has been seen of them since.
At $50 Monday afternoon. Mike
Ketehum, colored mar ven,urcd
from his cottage at Roekaway inlet
He saw a small boat dashing against
the leach. The wind was blowing at
q fifty-:wo knot pace and 1t almost
carried him from his feet. Reaching
the shore after . hard fight with
the elements ne found IL vas one of
the two boats Balsor had let out
~ the four young men from New York.
In IL he found hat, broken oar, q
gun. and attached &c line fastened to
the boat was young shark. IL was
about feet long or the other boat
nothing has been seen. Waves nearly
50 feet high arc flashing Rockaway
beach, pl0wing far into the sand and
washing dwellings aud boats out 20 sea-
sunday afternoon Jans Moore, ac-
,6mpanied by crew of three, left the
old mill at Canarsie aboard Schooner
loaded with coal for Baltimore Com
inx out OF the north channel the storm
struck her. The three young men
with him were swept of the deck
while trying TO take In sail. Tho
schooner vas carried before the
wind. rocking in the trough Of
the sea md threatening every
moment TO lcapsize. All Sunday night
and Monday tho craft held together.
Moore now and then venturing to guide
her out OF the trough. Storm-tosscd.
sh. kept before tho wind until Monday
at 10 p. IN, when she went hard
aground on Block House Point at
Rockaway Inlet. The hfc-savers At
10 the stranded schooner and
one Of their number, Julius
Quay. got into the basket aud
was pulled on board. lie had not beer
there more than . few moments when
the main boom swung over and
knocked him senseless into the sea.
He was drowned The car was pulled
back and Capt Bates made the peril
Gus trip In which Quay lost his life.
lie managed 20 get Moore ashore with.
out further accident. The old man Ia
insane from his awful experience.
LONDON. Oct IA great storm ID
prevailing ON tho English and Irish
coasts, aud London Is partly cut of
from communication with the outside
world, no kilograms having been re-
cceived during Tuesday from Ireland.
Heavy damages 10 the late crops
are known To follow the storm.
and property in every direction has
been seriously injured Great losses
to shipping are evident along the
coasts Tremendous winds are blow.
ing in this city. accompanied by heavy
rain. Many chimneys have fallen and
the streets are almost empty.
In the cities and large towns chin.
news and tiles were carried every.
where from the roof of private dwell
lings. out-houses Of wood crashed down
ns IL built OF cards, pedestrianism was,
during the helgh. OF the storm, utterly
impossible and the trassic by rail. road
or water was almost brought "a
complete standstill. From ali
sections scome reports OF dam
age done and lives endangered. The
country roads are strcwn with and
blocked by fallen trees. twisted tele'
graph wires and broken telegraph
poles. II Is impossible rs yet to give
even an approximate idea of the dam.
aye done on land aud sea or OF the
lives lost Instances OF the furious
work II the gale are constantly being
recorded.
At Heiensburg, n watering place on
.he Firth OF Clyde. the fishing and
other boats which had been drawn
high upon the beach at the first ap.
proach OF the gale were carried along
by the furious waves. which
poured into the streets, flooding
thc houses ard driving the in.
mates from thrf homrS, many escaping
through the windows. so little warn
ing vas given OF the incubation. Two
passenger trains running between
glasgow and Hslensburg were brough,
IL standstill, 20 the intense alarm
Of the passengers, by tho waves.
which washed over and threat.
sned 20 demolish the track. The fires
Of the locomotives we're extingu.shed,
thus completely strandiag the trains
and placing the lives Of the passengers
ia peril Escape from the cars was
impossible. and all attempts made W
10 the present TO reach the travellers
have failed
BRtesrox. Oct i&--A terrific gale
arose here Tuesday afternoon, blowing
down most OF the structures In COURSE
~ erection for Buffalo Bills Wild Yves,
show and ws-cking them utterly.
tire in q fsistsas oHfee
Nssvvu-rr. Team. Oct iA--rire
starting At O. 80 Tuesday night badly
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