New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-23
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.
RESULTS OF THE BIG STORM on THE BRIT.
ISH AND IRISH COASTS.
oIsAPPFARANOF OF A FLUSHING MAILBoAT-
GALLANT REsCUES OF CREWS-THE SIR
WALTER RALEIGH SAFE.

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Flushing mail boat stranded at Queensborough
during heavy fog last night Her signals of
distress were heard at Sheerness and the British
warship Scout went out in search of the vessel
When the Scout arrived at the place whence the
signals were heard, the mail-boat had vanished.
The steamer Tunisic is ashore at Lundy Island
at the entrance Of the Bristol Channel. Her
crew were taken of by means Of the brcecheS
buoy.
Terrible weather prevailed in ST. Georges Chan
mel last night. Tie French steamer Trignac
foundercd off the Scily Islands, and three of her
crew werc drowned The remaining seventeen OF
her crew have arrived at Falmouth
Later dispatches say that an explosion occurred
on the vessel, supposed TO be due TO the gas es
Gaping from her cargo of coal. The force of the
explosion burst open the steamers matches. a
terrible gale was raging, and the steamer rapidly
filed The crew made preparations TO leave the
sinking vessel, and heavy sea washed the cook,
cabin boy and one Of the stokers overheard. The
rest of the crew. after great eXertions. succeeded
in lowering lifeboat and managed to reach the
shore
Among the many wrecks is the Norwegian TIM
Der bark Drowning Sophie, which went ashore at
Galley Head, a promontory of Ireland, in county
Cork, between the bays Of Ross and ClonaSlty.
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by the gallant efforts of the lifcboatmen.
A dispatch from Wexford says that a large
steamer bound from Glasgow for South African
ports is stranded at Morris Castle, County WeX-
ford She got of her course during the binding
storm that prevailed last night and went ashore
at the height of the gale. She blew signals OF
distress and sent up rockets, and in short time
the hfcbOats and coastgUard were at the scene.
The breeeches buoy rigged. after some dit'i-
GUILTY. and the captain of tie steamer, his wife, and
oil the crew were safely landed.
The yacht surprise has been wrecked at
Donaehaden. County Down. The schooner John
and Alice. foundered off Dungarvon, County Wex-
ford. trlwcr rescued her crew.
The anxiety that was felt concerning the
safety of the British steamer Sir Walter Raleigh.
which put into Bear Haven, Bantry Bay, with
her shaft broken. and which, while proceeding in
tow for port where she could make repairs, broke
adrift and went seaward, has been alayed by
her re-arrival last night at Bear Haven. She was
picked up at sea by the British steamer Ninian
Stuart, Captain Browne
The British bark Nikaria Captain Long, FROM
Coquimbo, by way of Carrizal for Hampton
Roads, was abandoned in latitude SO south. longi
tuGe IS west. All hands board Of her were saved.
The body of man has been thrown ashore by
the sea at Penzance. 1t is supposed that he was
one of the men VINO belonged to the British
steamer Vioaute, from Rotterdam Tor Liverpool.
which was wrecked OFF Penzance.
4 large ifeboat painted black, which appears
% have been washed from some transatlantic line
steamer has stranded at Kilney, County Dublin.
2 l-2 miles southeast of Kinestown. The bot
tom of the boat was stove, and she had been
so battered by the sea that the name on her
could not be read.
A dispatch from Gibraltar says that during
the storm that prevailed in that region the Italian
bark Nina Schiafno went ashore at Cape Spar
tel on the northwest coast of Morocco, at the
entrance to the Straits Of Gibraltar. Seven of
her crew were drowned; the other four have
been landed at 1angcr
The Norwegian bark VarrO and the British brig
Esther are ashore near Wexford. Their crews
The British bark City of Liverpool, Captain
Evans from Pascagoula December l / for iavre,
WIS abandoned on January 2s. in latitude 80.
north, longitude 5s west. Her crew have ar
rived at St. Vincent.
The British steamer st. Pancras, Captain Young,
from New-York February Z, which arrived at
Liverpool Yesterday, had on board the crew OF
the schooner Petrol. The Petrol was found ahan-
doned of MiEehead, and was tOwed 10 queens
town. IL was supposed that her crew had beeh
drowned.
The weather to-day throughout the United King
dom was mildcr than it has been for the last lew
days Telegraphc communication is being re-
stored.
LEGAL VICTORY FOR "TIIE LONDON TIMES"
London Feb 22-The suit Of Mr.. Lowe. formerly
The Berlin correspondent Of The London Times" WHO
after being dismissed from the service of that news
paper after six months notice, brought an action 70
recover a years salary, terminated today IN Vec'
for "Tbe Times" Mr. Low$asserted that the custom
81 the journalistic profession entitled foreign CORE
rpondents to years notice prior 10 dismissal In the
rorrse OF the trial letters from Mr.. Lowe 10 Inc
Zines" were read In these letters Mr.. Lowe com
pained that teegrams OF the most sensational ana In
sccurae nature sent by the Berlin agent Of the Dazei
News Agency were used by "The Times" and that
the PAPERS publication Of these teeGams brought d'
credit upon "The Tines and upon himself. LORD
Chief Justice Colcridge in nsncting the jury sad ta
the only question involved ~ tie cac was Wicuei vi
NOT the customary or sufficient notice OF dismissal had
been given the planth.
SENTENCED FOR TIE DEUTSCIlE BANK FRAUDS.
Berlin Feb 22.-IIerr Schwcgcr, stOckbroker OF
this city, convicted Of being an acc0mplice o1 Herf
Franck the abscondng bookkeepcr Of the Deutsche