The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-12
Shores of England and Ireland
Strewn With Wreckage.
THE LOSS OF LIFE GREAT.
Farmers of the Midland Counties Have
Their Fields Flooded Again.
Tho Gale Unprecedented In Recent
Years-France, Spain and Portugal
Also Visited - The Heavy Rainfall
Will Cause Ruinous Overhowa

ea'e tiiat mas prevailed IN years ragged last
night on the south coast of England and
Ireland. Reports from the gale-swept
districts are very slow in coming, but
those thus far received show that the dam
age must be widespread aud very heavy.
The German bark J. c. Phuger is ashore
at Hastings. The crew and passengers
were saved after tremendous struggle.
The Phuger sailed from San Francisco
June 20 for Bremerhaven, under command
of Captain Kruse. The vessel may vet be
saved if the sea goes down. Captain
Kruse was the last person to leave the
ship, and all speak in high terms of his
courage and assistance to the life-savers.
AT Sandgate, the ship Benvenue was
wrecked, and her crew took to the rigging.
Two attempts were made by the life-savers
to rescue them, but the sea was too high.
Some of the crew, exhausted by the long
exposure, became so weakened that they
found it impossible to longer cling to the
rigging, and dropped into the water and
sank from sight. Thousands of people
gathered along the shore, sympatheticslly
watching every attempt made to save
the lives of the shipwrecked sailors.
Later third attempt was made, anu the
life-savers, after a tremendous struggle,
succeeded in getting a line to the ship.
The work of taking the half dead men
from the rigging was begun, and twenty
seven of the officers and crew were safely
gotten into the boat. Then came another
struggle to reach shore, the boat
finally bringing up at Folkestone,
where the survivors of the wreck were ten
derly cared for. The captain and four Off
s.
servers reached the vessel. A body of
troops has been sent to aid the life-savers
along the Sandgate section of the coast in
their efforts to render assistance to dis
tressed vessels and their crews. A num-
Der of vessels in distress have been driven
past Sandgate. 1t was impossible to do
anything to relieve them on account of
the tremendously heavy seas.
A telegram has been received from the
Scilly islands, stating that schooner has
been wrecked there The crew was saved.
A vessel named the Paramount sunk off
Lowestoft, in Suffolk, and all hands on
board except two sailors were drowned
The fishing boat Star of the East, while
entering Lowestoft, crashed against pier
and was wrecked, six of the crew being
drowned.
A dispatch from Lowestoft announces
that Scotch lugger capsized off that port
today, and that six of the crew were
drowned.
Great anxiety prevails on the east and
south coast as to the fate of hundreds of
fishing boats which put to sea yesterday,
lured by the fine weather then prevailing.
From Hythe, on the English channel,
comes a report of the wreck of an English
schooner. The crew reached the shore
safely, but the captain, his wife and son
perished. 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 lifeboatmen. A
foreign bark went ashore at that place,
and the lifeboatmen started gallantly to
the resc1e. A tremendously heavy sea
was running and the lifeboat capsized
and all hands went overheard. Five
of the crew were swept away
before they could grasp the life lines, and
though they wore cork jackets they were
lost. Other men succeeded in righting
their boat and scrambling in. Several ves-
sells are ashore between Dungeness and
Dover, and it is feared they will go to
pieces and the crews perish before assist
ance can get to them.
A dispatch received from St. Leonards,
a well-known watering place in Sussex,
announces that the bark Amor is stranded
near that town. The crew took to the
rigging. where they are now, all attempts
10 rescue them being futile. The only
hope for the wrecked sailors is that the
storm may subside before they die of ex-
haustion.
Up to late hour this evening many ad-
ditional shIpwrecks were reported, with
consequent loss of life. The exact details
will not be obtainable for several days.
Tonight the gale is subsiding.
The storm has caused much damage
throughout the southern counties of Eng
land and Ireland. Rain has fallen in large
quantities. Telegraphic communication
Is interrupted to a great extent. The
farmers in the midland counties are grow
ing discouraged at the misfortunes pur-
suing them. In those counties the pre-
vious gales and floods did an immense
amount of damage In some sections the
water was just subsiding and the farmers
began to look forward to narrowing and
preparing the land for autumn sowing.
Now the waters have again submerged the
land The rivers are rapidly rising, and it
is feared there will be general repetition
of the floods.
In London the storm did considerable
damage to buildings in course of erection.
Part of the roof of the Ludgate Hill sta
ton was blown Off
The damage to property at Folkestone
and Deal is very great. The roofs of many
houses have been blown of, and the
streets are strewn with stats and tiles.
At Christ Church the rivers, swollen by
the excessively heavy rains which accom-
panied the gale, have overhowed their
banks, flooding the country and part of
the town itself.
Near Eastbourne mansion was wrecked,
a servant being killed and several people
injured. Numerous other buildings were
damaged and many narrow escapes are re-
ported. Two men belonging to the crew
of the Dynemurch lifeboat were drowned.
On the Island of Jersey many persons
were injured and several boats sunk in the
harbors. Al Bristol number of people
were injured by the falling of chimney
stacks.
MApRID. Nov. u.-Heavy gales prevail
throughout Spain. Teleeraphic communi-
cation is interrupted, and much da mage is
feared.
LISBON, Nov. IA great storm prevails
on the coast OF Portugal, and the wind is
blowing hurricane.
PARIS, Nov. u.--A severe gale RACES
throughout France. Much damage to