The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-12
A BIG STORM In ENGLAND
MANY SAILING VESSELS LOST
WITH TSEIa CREWS.

Life-Savers Perish While Attempting
to Rescue Sailors Clingins to Their
Mssts-Sailors Seen from Shore as
They Drop Exhausted Into the Sea.
Heavy Damage on Shore.
LONDON, Nov. ia heavy gale set in
last night In the south of England and Ire
land. As the night grew colder the wind
grew stronger, and finally blew with hurri-
cane force A French schooner was
wrecked near Hythe, one Of the cinaue
ports on the English channel. The crew
was saved, but the captain, his wife aud son
were drowned.
The iron ship Revenue. Of over ], 900 tons
burden, from London for Sydney, went
ashore near Saudgate. All were saved.
The storm has caused considerable dam.
age throughout the southern counties of
England and Ireland Rain has fallen In
large quantities. Telegraphic communion
tion has been interrupted to a great ex tent
This interruption of the land wires seri-
ously interferes with the transmission of
cable messages between England and the
United States.
The storm has extended northward and
now RACES with great fury from Wick, on
the east coast Of Scotland, to the Scilly
islands In the English channel This group
OF islets numbers about 14G and constitutes
constant menace to vessels during
stormy weather. A telegram received from
there says a schooner has been wrecked.
The crew however, were saved. A vessel
named The Paramount has sunk Off loves
toll, In Suffolk. All hands except two sail
ors were drowned. The two who were
saved owe their lives to the Lowestoff life
boat crew, who put out to their rescue.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE CERTAIN.
LONDON, Nov. IL, Or. M.-Further de-
tails of the great storm which is sweeping
over England are coming to hand, and there
Is no doubt that the loss of life arising from
marine and other disasters will fully equal,
IL not exceed, that which occurred during
the last great gale that visited the British
isles.
The Norwegian brig Solertia has been
wrecked at Studland, in Dorset
The fishing boat Ster Of the East, while
entering Lowestoff, crashed against the
north pier and was wrecked. Six of her
crew were drowned. One man was rescued,
but he died from exhaustion shortly after
ward.
The schooner Marguerite Marie, bound
for London, was caught in the hurricane
off Dungeness and blown ashore and
wrecked.
The American schooner Ell Margaret was
wrecked at Cayman. No lives were lost.
1t is believed that when the storm has
spent its force and final estimate Of the
damage Is made, 1t will be found that the
loss Is much greater than that incurred
through any storm that has prevailed here
for years. The reports from the gale.swept
districts are very slow in coming in, owing
TO the almost complete paralyzation of the
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ceived show that the damage must be wide
spread and very heavy.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN LONDON.
In London the storm has done considera-
bic damage. In many places, where build
lngs were in the course of erection, the
boarding in front of them was blown out
into the streets, and temporarily stopped
tbs passage Of pedestrians and vehicles. A
number Of persons, whose business COM
PEELED them to be out of
doors, were badly injured by being
struck by falling signs that were blown
from their fastenings overhead. At
st. Leonards, the well known Sussex water
ing place, the bark Amer is stranded and so
is the ship Plunger, at Hastings. The crew
are lashed to the rigging The life-saving
crew is unable to reach them In the storm
and their only hope lies in Its subsidence be-
fore they become worn out. A dispatch
from SandgaCe this afternoon saws the life
boat crew made another strenuous but
fruitless effort to reach the Benyenue
Some OF the crew, exhausted by their
long exposure, became so weakened that
they found it impossible TO longer cling to
the rigging and so were forced to let 20.
They dropped into the Yeasty waters and
sank from sight. Others are still in the rig
ging. A crowd numbering Thousands of
people is gathered along the shore interest
edly and sympathetically watching every
attempt that is mads to save the lives Of the
shipwrecked sailors, whose only hope of res
cue lies in the efforts of the gallant lifeboat
men.
Between Dover and Dungeness several
vessels are ashore, ard all along the shore
flags OF distress are flying.
RIVERS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
At Christchurch, 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 excessively heavy rains which have
accompanied the gale, have overflowed their
banks The rising waters flooded the coun-
try in the vicinity of Christchurch, and
part Of the town itself IS inundated. The
damage TO fishing boats and other small
craft employed in the local coastwise trade
is large.
The rivers in the midland counties are
rapidly rising, and it is feared that there
will be general repetition Of the floods of
few weeks ago, which have prevented
farmers from working.
LIFE-SAvERS LOST.
Part Of the crew of the life-sa wing crew
at Hythe, while engaged in the work of
rescuing q shipwrecked crew, were swept
from their boat and drowned.
At Dungeness. a foreign bark went ashore
and the lifeboat men started gallantly to
the rescue Of her endangered crew. A
tremendously heavy sea was running, and
the lifeboa5 broached TO. Once In the
trough Of the sea she capsized and all hands
went overheard. Five of the crew were
swept away before they could grasp the
life lines on the sides Of the boat and though
they wore cork jackets, they were lost. The
other men succeeded in rtghting their boat
and scrambling into her.
At Deal fishing boat was capsized and
two Of her crew were drowned. The same
fate is feared for Others as hundreds Of
fishing vessels put out yesterday. The
storm Is now abating.
REsCUING THE BENvENUE's CREW.
LONDON. Nov. II, II 80 P. M.-The life
savers made an attempt to rescue the crew
CT the Benvenue, and this time, after a
great struggle, succeeded In reaching the
ship. T@euty-seven half-dead men were
taken from the rigging. The life-savers
could not regain the place they started
from, and had to continue to Fokestone.
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