The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-20
THREE HUNDRED LOST.
Death Rate Of a Day in the Great
Storm Abroad.
ENGLISH AND FRENCH COASTS
ETREWN WITH WRECKS.

Fishing Boats by the Score and Many
Staunch Sea Going Vessels Battered to
Pieces-In Many Cases. None of the
Crew Lived to Tell the Tale-National
Emigrants Towed to Port.
London, November 19.-The storm
which swept the United Kingdom yester-
day, was still furious at IL O'Clock today
Throughout last night and this morning
reports of shipwrecks were received al
most incessantly. The Vulture and
Bessie, mail steamers, which took
refuge yesterday afternoon in the harbor
of St. Ives, on the Cornish coast, were
driven ashore After two hours of
perilous work the crews were rescued by
the coast guard and fishermen. The
steamers went to pieces. The people of
the Orkney Islands, off the North coast
of Scotland, suffered terribly. Many
houses were unroofed yesterday, mills
and barns levelled and hay stacks blown
to sea. The packet Osprey was torn from
her moorings and carried out to sea. She
has not been seen since The whole
plantation of Dunbeath Castle, in
Caithness, the most northerly county of
Scotland, was swept clean to the ground.
Signals of distress were flying this morn
ing from vessel on the Goodwin sands
off the Kentish coast.
Fishermen on shore made repeated
efforts to get the life boats through the
sea to her, but were driven back. Six
vessels were ashore this morning near
Holy Head, off the Welsh coast, and four
were breaking up. Six other vessels
were making signals of distress. The
Yorkshire coast was strewn with wreck
age Near Whitby, three vessels went
ashore in the night and were going to
pieces at noon. The crews were saved.
The excursion steamers Tern and Swap,
at anchor in Windermere lake, counsy
Lancaster, went to the bottom. Ctf
Winterton, County Norfolk, schoonhr
| foundered shortly before noon and five of
the crew drowned. Trawlers, fishing
smacks and shall craft of other sorts are
reported by the score as missing from
every important point on the coast. The
| loss of life has been great No estimate;
of the nun ber drowned is possible as
| communication with many parts of the
coast is cut off.
| At several points on the coast the
thermometer has fallen rapidly and the
high winds have piled up enormous
snow drifts. Two soldiers were found
today frozen to death in drift near
Portsmouth.
The British steamship Hampshire,
1858 tons, went down this morning
off Gunrard's head, on the Cornish coast.
All the crew took to the boats. One
boat reached shore, but the other went
down and twenty three men were lost.
One of the sailors saved said the vessel
sprang aleak after being beaten about by
the storm five hours. She was on the
| way from Liverpool to Cardiff. The
Norwegian schooner Arne sank off Filey
on the Yorkshire coast and only one of
the nine men aboard her was saved. A
trawler went ashore near Reay, off the
Caithness coast aud seven of the crew
| were lost. The British steamship
Princess, 1870 tons, plying between
Sunderland and Bilbao, went to the bot
tom near Flamborough, Yorkshire, with
all on board. A Scotch trawler capsized
off Scarborough, Yorkshire and eight
| men were lost. The steamer Killarney
| she found the National lil.4 steamer
Helvetia making signals of distress about
ten miles from Milford. The Killarney
made ar unsuccessful attempt;to tow her
to Milford. The Killarney stood by the
Helvetia five hours and then, as the
fury of the storm was increasing was
Obliged to leave. It is regarded very
doubtful that the steamer in distress
was the liner Helvetia. The steam
trawler Helvetia was in distress Satur-
day, not far from Milford, and the
captain Of the Killarney is believed to
have mistaken her for the National line
vessel The Norwegian bark foundered
off Malin head County Donegal Ireland,
this afternoon and the crew of eight
were lost.
Reports from Havre and Calais this
evening say the storm along the Nor
mandy coast is the worst experienced in
the last fifty years. Wrecks are reported
from every point along the coast. Innu-
merable sma all craft vanished lastgg..night
from the waters along the coast. Vessels
were dragged from their moorings and
sunk with all on board. The channel
steamer Foam left Dover for Calais this
morning. Her officers counted twenty
nine wrecks, principally fishing hoats,
in the twelve mile interval between
Gravelines and Calais They found the
east pier head at Calais and the light
house in Calais harbor swept away. More
than 600 feet of pier were carried away in
the night Tremendous seas are still
piling up on the water front
More than 300 persons were drowned
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