The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-12
Her Coasts Strewn with Wrecked Ships
WhoseC Crews Found Watery Graves.
Big Atlantic Liners Compelled to heep Ont in
the Open Sea and Go BY Calling Ports to
Avoid Being Blown on the Rocks.
Heroic Efforts of the Life.SaVing Crews
TO Rescue Perishing Seamen.
Lowlands in Southern England Submerged and
Great Damage Done-Scenss Along the
DesOlated Valley of the Jucar, in Spain.
ANOTHER DISASTROUS GALE.
Britain's Coasts Again Swept by q Furiou
Storm and Many Ships Wrecked.

ANOTHER DISASTROUS GALE.
Britain's Coasts Again Swept by q Furious
Storm and Many Ships Wrecked.
LONDON, Nov. u.-Last night heavy
gale set in in the south of England and Ire
land. Sailing vessels bound up and down
the channel. warned by falling barome-
tiers. put their helms up and made for q
harbor. Fortunate were they In following
these dictates of prudence. for as the night
grew older the wind blew with hurricane
force. Not alone were sailing vessels IN
danger, but large ocean steamships, lack
ing sea room, were compelled to keep Oft
shore. The White Star liner Majestic. from
New York, which arrived off Fastnet late
last evening. was caught in the hurricane.
and Captain Parsell decided that it would
be too dangerous to attempt to enter
Queenstown harbor. The Majestic was,
therefore. kept of. and proceeded on her
way to Liverpool, from which place the
mails and passengers WILL be transferred to
London.
The iron steamer Benevue was driven
ashore near Sandgate, and despite repeated
heroic efforts on the part of the llfe-savers,
the whole crew is supposed to have per-
ished. Fruitless attempts were made to
reach the stranded vessel with the life
boat. but the waves were tremendous and
beat back the brave bOatmen. The dis
tance was too great for the rocket-shooting
mortar to carry line, and the life-savers
were finally compelled to abandon the
clinging to the rigging, from which they
dropped one by one, as they became be-
numbed by cold. A number of bodies were
washed ashore along with the cargo,
which foated out of the hold. One
of the sailors who was in the rigging,
apparently made up his mind that he
could reach the shore by swimming. He
was seen to dive from the rigging and to
strike ont strongly in the direction of the
shore. On he came, drawing nearer and
nearer to the beach, until it seemed as
though he would reach tho land. A num-
ber of the residents of the town joined
hands, and their leader dashed into the sea
in an attempt to reach the struggling
sailor. When the swimmer had approached
to within couple of yards of his would
be rescuers he threw ND his hands anu,
with groan, sank. and was seen no more.
Several other ships are reported ashore
near the wreck of the Benevue. A body of
troops has been sent to aid the life
savers alO0S tu6 SauuRat6 eecllOu Oh Inc
coast In their effort to render assistance to
the distressed vessels and to reecue their
crews A number of ships have been
driven past Sandgate, with their ensign
hoisted. with the jack down. showing that
they were in distress and desired assist
ance. This would have been willingly
rendered had it been possibl e. but the gale
shows no signs of aba tement. and to try to
give help to vessels that by any means
could possibly care for themselves would
have been f0ol-hardy.
PARTIAL LIST OF DISASTERS.
To-night's dispatches from the storm
swept districts leave no room for doubt
that the loss of life arising from marine
and other disasters will equal, if not OK.
ceed, that which occurred during the last
great gale that visited the British Isles.
The dispatches now being received give
the following list of casualties at the vari-
GUS points along the coast: The Norwegian
brig Solertia has been wrecked ut Stud
land. in Dorset. The fishing boat Star of
the East. while entering Lowestofer dashed
against the pier and was wrecked. SIX of
her crew were drowned. One man was
rescued, but he died from exhaustion
shortly afterward. The schooner Marguer-
lte, bound for London, was caught in tho
hurricane off Dungeness and was blown
ashore aud wrecked. London, too, has it
maritime accident to add to the list of dis
asters. The British steamer Brazilian.
Captain Whyte. bound from London for
New Orleans. met with series of mishaps
while proceeding down stream. The first
accident was q collision with barge, in
which the port quarter of the barge was
damaged. subsequently she collided with
the brig Ploughman and broke her jib-boom
and carried away her headgear. The Bra
lillian had hardly got clear Of this last ves-
sci when she struck Her Majesty's training
ship Arethusa and damaged her starboard
quarter. 1t is believed that when the
storm has spent it's force and q final esti-
mate of the damage is made II Will be found
that the loss is much greater than that in
CURED through any storm that has pre-
vailed for years.
are very slow In coming in. owing to the
almost complete paralyzatIon of the tcle-
graph wires, but the reports thus far re-
ceived show that the damage must De
to property at Folkestone and Deal is very
great. The roofs OF several houses were
blown off and the streets are strewn with
states and tiles. At Christ Church, q town
situated at the confluence of the rivers
Stour and Avon. twenty miles southwest
of Southampton on the English channel.
the rivers, swollen by the excessive rains
which have accompanied the gale, have
overflowed their banks The flooded
country in the vicinity of Christ Church
The damage to fishing boats and other
small crafts employed in the local coast
wise trade Is large. but no estimate of the
amount of the loss can as yet be made.
UNFORTUNATE FARMERS.
The farmers in the midland counties are
growing discouraged at the misfortunes
that are pursuing them. In these counties
the previous gales and floods did an i'm
mense amount o. damage. In some sections
the water that had flowed upon large tracts
of low-lying lands during the previous
food was just subslding, and the farmers
had begun to look forward with satisfac-
tion to plowing and preparing the land for
the autumn sowing. Now the waters have
again su submerged the land and the farmers
are despondent. The rivers In the midland
counties are rapidly rising, and it is feared
that there Will be general repetition of the
floods of O few weeks ago.
Telegraph messages from Paris are sub
ject to a delay of tw o hours. and for other
places to delay of an hOur or more.
At Dover the local life-b boat manned and
provisioned is held in readiness to proceed
to any qusrter within the Dover district to
aid vessels that are in distress. A tug, with
steam up. il lying beside her to take her in
tow. At present the seq is running tremen-
dously, and il is unsafe for the tug or life
boat to venture ont of the harbor. Part of
the life-savlng crsw at Hythe, while en-
gagged In rescuiSg q shipwrecked crew
were swept from their boat and drowned
From Dungeness, too, comes u story of the
loss of some of the brave and hardy life
boat men. A foreign bark went ashore at