Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-20
srREWN WITH WRECKS.

Many Vessels Were Driven Ashore by
the Furious Storm That Ragged in
the United Kingdom-One Vessel
Was Driven Out to Sea and a Whole
Plantation Was swept to the
Ground.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-The storm which
swept the United Kingdom yesterday was
still furious at 10 o'clock to day. Through
oot the night reports of shipwreck were
received almost inos sssntly. The Vulture
and the Bessie, small steamers which took
refuge yesterday afternoon in the harbor
of st. Ives, on the Cornish coast, began
dragging their anchors towards evening.
Both sigualled for help, but none could be
sent in such terrible weather. They were
driven ashore and after two hours of peril
GUS work the crews were rescued with life
lines by the coast guard and fishermen.
The steamers went to pieces in the ire
mendous seas which rolled over them
in the night, aud this morning not ves-
tige of either hull was seen.
The people of Orkney islands, off the
north coast of Scotland, have suffered ter
ribly. Many houses were unroofed yester-
day, walls and barns were levelled and
bsystscks were lifted from the fields and
blown out to sea.
The packet Osprsy was torn from her
moorings and carried out to sea. She has
not been seen since. The whole planta-
ton of Dunbeath castle in Caithness, the
most northerly county of Scotland, was
swept clean to the ground.
Signals of distress were seen Aging this
morning from a vessel on the Goodwin
Sands off the Kentish coast. The fisher
men on shore made repeated efforts to get
lifeboats through the sea, but were driven
back. Six vessels were ashore this morn
| ing near Holy head, off the Welsh coast.
Four of them were breaking up. Six other
vessels were making signals of distress.
The Yorkshire coast IN strewn thick with
| wrecks.
The British steamship Hampshire, ,593
tons, went down this morning off Guer-
uard's Head, on the Cornish coast. All
the crew took to the boats One boat
reached shore but the other went down,
and the twenty-three men which 1t carried
| were lost. One of the sailors who were
saved said that the vessel sprsng a leak
| after having been beaten about by the
storm for five hours. She was on her way
from Liverpool to Cardiff.
Reports of minor wrecks multiplied this
afternoon. The Norwegian schooner Arm.
sank off Filey, on the Yorkshire coast
Only one of the nine men aboard her wa
saved. A trawler went ashore near Reay
on the Caithness coast, and seven of tn,
eight in her crew were lost. The British
steamer Princess, 1, $40 tons, plying between
Sunderland and Bilboa, went to the bottom
near Marlborough, Yorkshire, with all OIL
board. A Scotch trawler capsized of
Scarborough, Yorkshire, and the eigh
men on board her were lost.
The steamship Killarney which arrived
to- day at Cork reports that she found tn
National liner Helvetia making signals o
distress about ten miles from Milford. TIL
captain of the Helvetis asked that his yes
sci ba taken in tow to that port and sew
} eral hswsers were passed to her from tn
Killarney. They all snapped as soon a
| the Killarney steamed ahead. The Killal
and then as the fury of the storm was 1
oreasipg was obliged to leave. 1t is yer
doubtful that the stsamer in distress wa
the liner Helvetia. The steam trawler He
vetia was in distress on Saturday not ia
from Milford and the captain of the Ri
larney IL believed to have mistaken her fl
the National liner.
A Norwegian bark foundered off Mali
Head, county of Donegal, Ireland, and Il
1
which plies between Dublin and Liverpool
arrived at the latter port this Afternoon
Forty cattle were killed and thrown owe
board during the voyage The steamsh
1 Upupa, from Newport, which was disable
, off Kinsale yesterday arrived at Queenstov
to-day and proceeded to Cork.
] In csnsequence of the storm the steam
Umbria had to wait two hours and for
d minutes fer her mails at Queenstown to-da
Reports received from Havre and Gals
this evening cay that the storm along &
Normandy coast is the worst one e
>. perienced in the last fifty years. Wrec
are reported from every point along {
r coast. Innumerable small craft vanish
y last night from the waters along the Goa
- Vessels were dragged from their moorin
and sunk with all on board.
The channel steamer Foam left Dover
Calais this morning before the compan
decided to suspend the channel servi,
She had the greatest difficulty in enteri
the Calais harbor. Her officers count
= twenty-nine wrecks, principally fshi
q boats, in the twelve-mils interval betwe
Gravelines and Calais.
They found the east pierhead at Cal
and the lighthouse in the harbor swt
2 away. More than 600 feet of the pier b
r. been carried away in the night. Trem,
dous seas were still piling up on the wa
front. The harbor looked as If 1t had be
shaken by an earthquake. More than
persons were drowned between noon y
terdsy and noon to-day.
A despatch from Milford confirms
report Of the steamer Killsrney's capt
that IL was the National Liner Helvet
|. which he tried to take In tow ten M