The Globe-republican., 1893-11-24
MANY LIVES LOST.
Terrible Hurr:ca ne Along the Brit
ish Coast.
Scores of Vessels Lost and Hundreds Of
Men Reported Drowned-A storm
That Lasted Over Three
Days
Wreck and Ruin.

Wreck and Ruin.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-Up to Sunday morn
ing eighty lives were known to have
been lost during the gale which has
swept over the British coast for forty
eight hours past and in addition the
F., crews of several boats are still missing
The news arriving every hour records
further fatalities. and details the great
damage done by the storm
1t is generally agreed that the
weather which has just visited the
coast of England, Scotland and Ireland
is the most severe in many years Dis
patches received from Banff say that
the seashore for thirty miles is strewn
with the wrecklge of vessels. The
schooner Pioneer of Hull was washed
ashore Friday evening. She was car
ried over the rocks and cast on the
sand. The crew was saved in their
own boat.
Some idea of the force of the gale can
be gathered from the fact that two
heavy railroad engines were blown off
the track near Inverness, blocking all
traffic north and necessitating the dis
patch of two wrccking trains to clear the
track. The wreckage trains have not
since been heard from. so it is supposed
that the work has been impeded by
fall of snow.
During the height of the fury OF the
gale the steamer Hampshire was driven
ashore in St Ives bay and was pounded
TO pieces near Guernard's head, twenty
one of the Hampshire's crew being
drowned. only one man managing to
reach the shore alive.
The Lowestoft life-boat rescued the
crews of three schooners and later saved
twelve men from drowning, putting to
sea in the face of binding snowstorm.
The reports from the Tyne say much
damage has been done to shipping there
and that several small boats have been
sunk. There have also been MANY cases
of personal injury by falling chimneys
and other such accidents.
At about 10 o'clock at night, amid
the driving storm, a large steamer was
seen running before the gale with a tar
barrel blazing on board of her as sig
nal of distress. The Scarborough coast
guard Immediately started down with
the rocket apparatus. but when near
Filey. eight miles from Scarborough.
the coast guardsmen lost sight of the
steamer They managed. however. to
notify the coast guard station at Filey,
who then took up the chase and after
ward saw the steamer. with its lurid
distress signal, rushing along. swept
by heavy seas and evidently in great
danger. After a long and exciting pur-
suit along the coast, station after sta
ton of the coast guard being noti-
lied to be on the lookout for the |
vessel in distress, the steamer
was finally driven ashore and was
made out to be the Rose of Aberdeen
The steamer went ashore near Shreeton |
Cliff, where coast guardsmen managed |
to fire rocket line over her, and the |
crew hauling the breeches buoy tackle |
On board, they were rescued just as the |
steamer seemed upon the point of |
breaking up. The coast guardsmen
had hardly got the men belonging to |
he Rose ashore through the boiling
surf when. at about 1 o'clock in the
morning the Norwegian three-masted
'essel Armie was driven ashore by the
earfnl sea and wind prevailing, and
began to pound to pieces on the rocks,
he seas making clean sweep over her
md washing the crew overheard, one
lfter another, only the mate being
'aved
Later.-The midnight reports re-
'eived make the total number of deaths
rom drowning during the gale 134,
his is without reckoning the crews of
several vessels which have been seen to
ounder off the coast, and the total
irrespective of the numerous
rews of missing fishing fleets. is esti-
mated at quite 200, according to the
most conservative estimates. 1t is i'm
'ossible at this our to give in detail
he number and condition of the wrecks
n damage done to houses or property.
tut latest reports are that the gale now
hows some signs of abating.
The Storm Contin ues.
LONDON, Nov. 2l.-The gale in tie
,nglish channel was renewed with
nry yesterday. All the boats running
etween Calais and Dover are storm
Ound at these two ports, and vessels
'hich are arriving at Dover every hour
eport having experienced the most
earful weather in the channel and in
he North sea. Disasters and fatali-
les are reported on all sides, and dis ,
ressed vessels are to be seen off every {
art of the coast The ife-boats have ,
cen working gallant = for nearly {
hree days and have succeeded in rescu- {
,g large number of lives. S
Married by the Cardinal.