The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
PERlSHED At SEA.
Fifty Lives Lost and Many Vessels Wrecked
In tho Storm Which swept the Coast oi
Great Britain.

PEHlSheO Al SEA.
, Fifty Lives Lost and Many Vessels Wrecked
In the Storm Which swept the Coast OF
Great Britain.
LONDON, Nov. l2.-The great storm
last thirty-six hours is subsiding, leav-
ing death and destruction in its wake.
! It is a moderate estimate to put the
loss Of shipping at hundreds Of vessels.
large and small, and the loss of life at
fifty On shore the damage done to
property could hardly be covered by
100000. The visitation was the
severest of its kind for generation.
A Captain and Ills Family Lost.
From Hythe, on the English channel,
comes the report of the wreck of
French schooner. The crew managed
| to reach the shore in safety. but the
!, captain. his wife and son perished.
Sandgate was also the scene Of ship
| wreck. The iron ship Benvcnue, of over
1000 tons, sailed a few days ago from
London on a voyage for Sydney,
| N. $. w. It was caught in
the storm and driven ashore. Its crew
was compelled to take to the rigging.
The lifeboat crew attempted rescue
and failed, as did the endeavor to
throw life line over the wreck. The
| life savers abandoned all hope of
saving the crew of the Benvenue after
they had made another effort to reach
| the vessel in their boat and failed.
Finally Rescued.
| After the local lifeboat crew had
made repeated futile efforts to reach
the Benvenue the Seabrook crew tried
it and succeeded. It was only after
long continued and almost hopeless
effort, trying again and again when
they had been driven back, that
the brave life savers cot past
the great breakers and reached the
ship. From its rigging twenty-seven
half-dead men were taken into the boat
and it was headed for the shore. This
could not be reached, but the rescuer
finally made Folkestone, where they
and their charges were cared for. The
captain and four Of the crew of the
Benvenue were swept away before the
life boat arrived.
i Life savers Drowned.
Part of the life saving crew at Hythe
while engaged in the work of rescs,ing
a shipwrecked crew were swept from
their boat and drowned. From Dun
geness. too, comes story of the loss
of some of the brave and hardy
-boatmen. A foreign bark went
ashore at that place and the life
boatmcn started gallantly to the
rescue of her endangered crew
A tremendously heavy sea was
running and the life boat broached to.
Once in the trough Of the sea she cap
sized and all hands went overheard
Five of the crew were swept away be-
fore they could grasp the life lines on
the sides of the boats, and though they
wore cork Jackets they were lost The
other men succeeded in righting their
boat and scrambling aboard.
Other Fatal Wrecks.
A dispatch from Lowestoft SAYS that
a Scotch lugger was capsized off that
port and six of her crew were drowned
| A l,OOO-ton ship, the Plunger, has
gone ashore at Hastings. The life
savers resortcd to rockets in an en-
deavor to get life line to the ship
After firing eleven which failed to
reach the ship the twelfth attempt
was successful, and the passengers and
crew were saved.
The latest accounts of the storm tell
Of the wreck of two schooners near
Brighton and the drowning of four of
their crew. Two of the crew of the
Dymchurch life boat were drowned.
Even Portsmouth harbor did not escape
damage, the massive sea wall at South
sea being partially destroyed.
Another schooner was wrecked at
Hastings Mt 10 o'clock Wednesday
night. Three men belonging to the
crew of pilot cutter were drowned at
Cardiff while attempting to rescue a
fisherman who was clinging TO an over
turned boat.
Damage on Shore.
In London the storm has done con.
siderable damage In many places
where buildings were in course of con.
struction the boarding in front of them
was blown out into the streets and
temporarily stopped the passage of pc.
destrians and vehicles. The interrupt
ton to the telegraph service is general
throughout southwest England.
Belgium FEELS the Storm.
BRUSSELS. Nov. 1a.-The cyclone pre-.
iicted by the weather service swep,
over Belgium Wednesday. The wind
blew from the southeast of France, in
the direction Of England, ut = terrible
speed. Great damage has been done.
Trees were uprooted in the Brussels
parks. In the Rois de la Cambre sew
| %,l1
roofs Of the Cercle Artesque ct Lit.
teraire and of the Hotel Continental
were blown off. Several street acci.
dents occurred and four persons were
severely injured. reports from various
points show that the gale has done con
siderable damage in the provinces.
In France.
PARIS, Nov. l2-The wind blew 8
heavey gale here all day Wednesday
Many persons have been reported in
jured. Hundreds of chimneys have
been demolished and an enormous
amount of other damage has been don.
by the fury of the storm. Dispatches re
ceived from Eouen, L'Orient, Hrest,
Cherbourg and Havre report that tre
mendous windstorms have pre-
vailed the entire day in all those
places. A large number of accidents
have occurred in the interior and man,
vessels have been wrecked along tht
coast. So great was the force of tn,
storm that a railway train was blowr
from the track near Marion, injurins
five persons.
| BETRAYED THEIR TRUSTS.
An Indian Agent and Two OF His Em
ployes Charged with Beating the Gov