Telegram-herald., 1891-11-12
OFR lHE BRITISH COAST
A Terrific Storm sweeps Along
the shore
IyPERlLIyC MANI BRAVE MARINERS
Some Of ThsG hass ALREADY Bssa
Dreu nsa-Lifs Savers Perish IN
Atssss Dsisg TO B~sess . ship.
Wgscksa Srsu.

LosDoS. Nov 1.-THE most dis
astrons storms for years are sweeping
over the British isles. carrying death
and devastation IN their course aud
leaving the shores strewn With
OF drowned sailors IRON almost
every point comes news Of
disaster and loss of life At sandgate,
ksat. tue British ship Bienvcnue, Of
Glasgow, was driven ashore after
hard struggle and at latest accounts
twenty-ons of the survivors were cling
ing To the rigging. facing death in
plain sight of thousands Of people
on shore who were unable To render
them any assistance. Three liieboat
crews tried hard TO reach them, but
was overturned in the surf and several
OF the crew were drowned.
Heroic sus Futile Egorss
When the Bienvenue was frst dis
covered on the rocks the crew Of the
Sand gate lifeeoat Station made every
effort possible TO launch their boat. but
without success. The lifeboat was
rolled over and over by the pounding
surf and 6aally the life savers
gave up the attempt 10 get her adoat
The rocket line was then called into
service and four times did the
little cannon belch forth It's shc.
and chain To which the cable
line was attached. but each time
the sho, fell short of the endan-
gered vessel When the crew OF
the Bienvenue saw the futile efforts
of the Sandgate life savers to
launch their boat and their failure to
convey the line of the breeches buoy
TO them they gave way to despair.
pitifully moticning for aid and i'm
ploring help from tho crowds OF pco-
pie lining the shore. Hosts of volun-
teers went to the assistance of the
regular lifeboatmen and these amateur
life savers tried TO do what the regular
boatrnen had failed to do Three times
the volunteers, assisting the regular
crew, tried to get the lifeboat through
the terrible surf, but still without sue
cess
Dropped Into tho ssA.
During this time the situation Of the
AhCh ~ tASS Va VIC
became more desperate every moment
One by one the numbed, weakened
sailors dropped from the Bienvenue's
rigging ana were swallowed up by the
angry waters At noon there were
twenty-one of the crew of the Bien-
venue left in the rigging. Seven Of the
crew are already drowned.
Lifo savers Perish.
The lifeboat crews of Dover, Sand
gate and Hythe struggled hard in gal
Ian: rivalry for the honor of rescuing
the few survivors of the crew of the
Bienvenue. The Hythe lifcboat, which
got afoat after over a dozen fruitless
efforts. was capsized while trying for
the honor of reaching the shipwrecked
crew Of the Bienvenue and several of
the life savers have been drowned.
other Fatal Wrecks.
While these attempts at rescue were
going on a tclegraphic message from
Hastings, on the same coast. announced
desperate struggle to reach bark.
supposed TO be British vessel. which
has been driven ashore near there.
The bark is in q most perilous position
and the prospects are that all her crew
will be drowned.
A dispatch from Hythe. Kent. Just
received, says that the French schooner
Edirimi H. foundered of that place
an that the vessels captain. his
wife and son were drowned in
spite of the efforts of the life
savers, who were enabled to take off
the rest of the crew. The captain of
the Ed.rimi, however, refused to leave
the vessel. and his wife and son refused
to be separated from him, prcferring
drowning with the gallant sailor to be-
ing saved without him.
The entire steamboat service be-
tween Dover and Calais, Boulogne and
Follsestone and between British ports
and Ostend has been suspended Many
fishing smacks and .oasting schooners
have fonndered while vainly strug-
Cling to reach port At Low
estoft, near Ipswich, Suffolk. q fishing
smack making Lowestoft harbor was
suddenly overwhelmed by the heavy
seas and foundercd in full 81 Of
thousands Of people. who were unable
to render any assistance. The crew.
numbering several souiA were all
drowned.
From the inland districts como re-
ports that the floods are increas-
ing rapidly and on all sides the tele-
graph poles and wires are again blown
down. In this city and in other towns
chimneys and signs have been blown
down in the streets, causing a number
of accidents
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