Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-16
BORIAS STILL RAGING
He still Holds Sway Over Land
ana Sea
TIE WORST STORa Ii HssY YEARS
May ysss~is wrecked Aisag the Coast
Ballafags Damaged IN knxiAAa,
IEs44za aud Franee-MAsy
Lives lsss.


the hurrieaRe - worse than the fearful
weather experienced during the bliz-
xard OF March last OF recent years,
by the expenditure of immense sums
OF money, Dover has been made
a harbor OF refuge. long. pow
sFfally built jettiss having
been thrown out seward and a
huge granite pier. called the Admiralty
pier. one-shird % mile long. having
been built At the commencement OF
the storm the pier and jetties were
continually washed by the waves, bat
now the pounding the Admiralty pier
has received has been so severe
thas . great anonas OF damage
has bsea done TO IL. huge granite
blocks OF several tons weight be-
ing washed cut of place In spite of the
iron work and cement which held them
The costly pier extension. which took
three years 20 build. has been almost
completely destroyed. little more than
the bare foundations remaining. Even
the oldest OF tks veteran seanen Of
Dover are forced TO admit that they do
not remsmber having seen worse
weather and heavier seas OF the coast
of England
The list of vessels which have
Rendered during the gale will DO
long one. Two coasting vessels are
known 10 have fouEdered In Loeb
Long, a branch of the Firth OF Clyde.
and six men OF their crews were
drowned The new ship Helen Brewer
eapsized At Glasgow, being too
light 10 ride ont such q gale. and
over a dozen yachts. q number OF coast
ing vessels and many lighters are
stranded lighters have already sunk,
and several others ars in such positions
that they are almost certain to become
total wrecks
In one street in Dover il has been re-
ported bJ the police q stack of brick
eaimneys was hurled down with such
force that IL smashed in the roof upon
which il fell and buried in the ruins in
mates OF the house, q number Of
women and children, who were badly
injured by the crashing rafters and
tiles.
The military camp at Shorncliffe,
near Foikestone mot far from Dover,
suffered from the storm, buildings be-
ing partly unrcofed. At Sundland the
hurricane unroofed factory, the tall
chimney of which fell upon house
and seriously injured four persons
kilograms from Wellingborough.
near Northampton. on the Northwest
ern railroad. state that a theater there
IL
ence had barely left the building when
powerful blast sweat. down on the
theater and reduced 1t 70 q shapeless
pile of lursher and brick. Had the
building fallen moment or moro
sooner number of people would have
BEEN buried in The ruins.
The St. James Gazette says: Not
within recent memory has such ter
rife storm ragged in England, and a ter
rible catalogue OF disasters at sea is to
be expected. Great damage has been
done in many parts OF the country and
were it not that the houses are sub
stantial we might have to lament dis
aster as terrible as that which attends
American cyclones.
The trees in Richmond park, Bushey
park. st. James park, Hyde park and
Victoria park have been greatly dam
aged Many sturdy old veterans
which have withstood the wrath of ages
have been uprooted.
LONDON, Oct. 15.-Despite the an
nouncemens Wednesday that the gale
which had been raging over England.
Wales the south of Scotland and Ire
land for the past two days was abat
ing, the morning shows that the fury
of the tempest has not yet exhausted it.
self. With the rising of the sun the
storm resumed its awful violence.
London. as this dispatch is cabled. is
being delu2ed with rain, swept with
fearful wind blasts, shaken by thunder
and startled by flashes of the most vivid
lightning.
All along the coast the beach Is
strewu with wrcckagc, and at Dover
especially a large quantity of material,
evidently belonging TO one or more
wrecked ships. has been washed
ashore. From Hclyhead comes telc-
gram saving that the body of steam
ship fireman had been washed ashore
nt that place. n eafutu coai iSoen
steamer sank Wednesday near Holy
head and the entire crew persisted. II
is thought the dead fireman may have
been one of her crew.
The weather in the Irish see h the
most severe experienced In many
years
In the midland counties. especially,
has great damage been done to the
stacked crops
Many vessels have been driven help
lessiy past Dungeness light flying sig
nails Of distress The local life boats
were unable 20 be Of any assistance 70
The distressed vessels. owing to the
speed az which they were being driven
down channel by the storm.
During the morning an immense
scsfoldinx erected about . building
near hyde Park gate collapsed under
the pressure OF the hurricane. burving
In Va ruins number Of persons who
bad soughs shelter beneath 10. One
person was fatally injured by this dis
ester, and many ladies received severe
cuts. bruises or other injuries
The tremendous gale also traversed
France. but in much nailder form In
Paris trees and ehimneys were more
or less damaged. aud the Rhone and
other rivers, particularly in the south
Of France. over6owed their banks. do