, 1891-10-15
FIERcEST EVER KNOWN.
The English Coast Storm of
Unparalleled Severity.
Dover's Massive Granite Pier
Smashed to Smithereens.
Shipping Floating Helplessly
and Many Lives Lost.
A Fearful storm.

LONDON, Oct. l4.-Dispatches from
Dover, Kent, say the hurricane was worse
than the blizzard of March last. The
Ostend boat was unable to approach near
the shelter pier OF Dover aud was driven
out TO sea again. since which time she
has not been heard from. 1t is thought
she reached some place of safety else
where along the coast, and the telegraph
wires being down she has been unable to
make her whereabouts known. Of recent
years, by the expenditure of immense
sums OF money, Dover has been made a
.'harbor OF refuge" long, powerfully
built jetties having been thrown out sea
ward and q huge granite pier, called the
Admiralty pier, one-third of a mile long,
having been built. At the commence
ment of the storm the pier and %jettiee
were continually washed by the waves,
and the pounding the pier has received
was 30 severe that a great amount of dam
age has been lone 1t. Huge granite
blocks of several tons weight we're washed
out OF place in spite of the iron work and
cement which held them, and little more
than the bare foundations are remaining.
The oldest veteran seamen admit that
they do not remember having seen worse
weather and heavier seas off the English
coast. Great danger has been experienced
by pedestrians on the streets Of Dover,
owing to falling tiles, states and bricks
which have been toDpled over by the
bowling wind. A number of more or
less serious accidents have been reported.
In one street. it has been reported by the
police, that a stack of brick chin ieys was
hurled DOWN with such force it smashed
in the roof upon which it fell aud buried
in the ruins the inmates OF the house. A
number of women and children were bad
ly injured by the crashing raiters and
tiles. At Sunderland the hurricane I'M
rooied II factory, the tall chimney of which
fell upon a house and seriously injured
our persons.
This afternoon the gale in the channel
is increasing and all eamers are forced
TO make some harbor. Additional re-
ports from Glasgow say the storm was un-
doubtedly the most severe since the terri
BILE Tay bridge disaster. The ship Urania
broke from her moorings and crashed into
the Italian barkentine Girolmina. The
~latter's foremost snapped and the vessel
was completely dismasted. Both vessels
then drifted down the stream, the crews
being utterly powerless to control them.
EluhuV Tue OThulh Crdsutu lulO Tue butus
of the Anchor line steamship company
aud this. enabled her to be captured and
made fast.
Two c~oasting vessels have foundered
in Loeb Long, a branch Of the Firth of
Clyde. and six of their crews have been
drowned. The ship Helen Brewer cap
sized at Glasgow and over a dozen yachts,
a number of coasting vessels aud many
lighters are ashore in the Clyde. Four
of the stranded lighters have already
sunk and several OF the Others are almost
certain to become total wrecks. The
steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor line,
grounded at Greenock, owing 10 the force
of the hurricane.
All incoming steamers report having
encountered fearful weather.
kilograms from Wellinghorough, on
the Northwestern railroad, state that a
theater there has been blown down. A
large audience had barely left the build
ing when a powerful blast swept down
and reduced 1t to a shapeless mass of lum-
Der and bricks. Had the building fallen
a moment sooner a number Of people
would have been buried in the ruins.
The gale has subsidized at IL d. u.
Owing to the damaged condition of the
telegraph wires it is impossible to obtain
full details OF the storms ravages. 1t ia
thought the losses OF lite and property
are comparatively email when the vast
extent OF the storm is considered.
At Cardiff the great breakwater was
partly DESTROYED and 10 addition to those
reported, many coasters have gone ashore.
The Ostend steamer, which usually makes
the trip to Dover in three or four hours.
was but eleven hours under tull steam and
WAS then cOmDelled tn mt hack without
with the continent has been retarded to
an extent never equaled. The gale also
trsversed France, but in a much milder
form.