St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-20
Ireland and Parts Of England
and Scotland Suffer
Heavily.
Boats Wrecked, Live Stock
Destroyed and People Flee
ing for Life.
The Moderate Socialists Have
No Use for the Rabid
Extremists.
Irish Tenants Relent in the
War Against Tyranny Of
the Landlords.

DUBLIN, Oct. ia hurricane pre-
walls in West Ireland. The Shannon
has Overfowed, submerging much land,
destroying buildings and drowning cat
lie. The storm is the worst for twenty
years. The gale has also been raging
with unusual fierceness about Queens
town and vicinity. About thirty crafts
large and small, mostly fishing smacks
and small coasters. have been driven
ashore in that vicinity. At YOughal the
sea has been SO heavy and the water
has been driven so far up by the wind,
that many parts of the town are flooded
by the seas, which have swept into the
streets.
Many sheep and cattle have been
drowned along the course of the Black
water river. Dispatches from HOlyhead
state that 20J vessels, many Of
them much distressed, have sought
refuge at that port from the storm.
The gravest approximations ale felt by
the inhabitants Of Sandgate, small
town on the English channel, situated
two miles from Folkestone. in Kent.
The storms have caused most abnOr-
mai high tide, and this, combined with
the hurrican which is blowing there, is
Destroying the Sea Walls.
Many houses situated near the shore
have already been washed over by the
angry waters and the highroad leading
to llythe and Folkstone is submerged
and destroyed i'll many places.
The river Thames at Windsor,
ElytOn and other places is over
flowing its banks into many houses.
Similar reports are reaching this city
from many other parts of England, Ire
land and Scotland. At Maryport,
Cumberland, on the Irish sea,
a thriving ship-building place,
though the harhOr dries at low
water, at some places about the town
the water is now four feet deep and is
causing an enormous amount of dam
aye, particularly at the stores and ware
houses unlucky enough to be inundated
The river Shannon has burst Its banks
in the county Limerick, inundating
large tracts of land. The re-
clamation works near Ennis, in
county Glare. which recently cost
the governments 9600,000 have been
nearly ruined. Many villages in the
Trent valley are submerged. The rivers
Usk, Ebb, Runney and Otway have
overflOwed their banks. Many thousand
acres of land are covered with
NolSi ttIO IIlG IOtltlS dlC pdSSdO C
a large number Of buildings weakened
by the floods have collapsed. The loss
Of live stock is very great. The Parret
river has overlooked. Between Bridge
water and Langeport the coun-
try is for many miles like
sea. hundreds of cattle have been
drowned and many houses are sub
merged. The villages of Balacurrea
and Baltray, in Ireland, are flooded.
The inhabitants had to be assisted to
escape by boats, many being taken from
the windows of thdir houses clad only
in their night dresses.
LONDON. Oct 19.-TO be added to the
long list of vessels which have left their
ribs upon these coasts during the recent
storms is a French brig. which was
wrecked to-day off St. GATHERINGS point.
Five men of the briggs crew were
drowned. a coasting sooner was also
stranded at about the same spot
About POO vessels, many of them dam
aged, have taken refuge at Ilolyhead
The high tide Is destroying the sea wall
at Sand Gate, and the people of the
town are alarmed. fearing submerSion
The Thames is overlooking at Windsor,
Elton and other places, and inundating
the lower parts of houses in those Vicin-
tiles.
New YORK, Oct. ia dispatch from
Bermuda to the signal Office in this city
announced that severe cycl0nic storm,
dangerous to shipping, is raging at Ber-
muda. 1t began yesterday morning.
The barometer fell to 29I7, an almost
unprecedented fall.
MADRID. Oct. 19.-The province of
Granada was visited by terrific storm
to-day. The wind blew a hurricane.
The town of Granada and the whole
surrounding country are inundated and
immense damage has been caused by
the flood.