River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-23
RUIN AND DEATH.
More Than 500 Lives Lost by the storms
Abroad.

Abroad.
LONDON, Nov. 2l.-Stories of wreck
and disaster are pouring In from all
parts of the coast where the wires re-
main standing. II is only with the
greatest difficulty that communication
is maintained with the Anne rican cable
stations On the Irish and Welsh coast
the storm is becoming worse and il
seems probable that connection be
tween America and Europe will soon
be lost entirely.
The great chimney of the Hudders-
field dye works. which was hundred
feet high, was blown down. The inn
mense mass of bucks fell on a building
in which sixty hands were at work and
completely wrecked &c. Strange to say,
only two of the occupants of the build
ing were killed.
Dispatches from along the coast state
that many vessels have gone ashore.
The sea is rising at all west and north
west points. A dispatch from St Ives,
on the north coast of Cornwall, states
that the steamer Ciutra is ashore at
that place. Four persons on board of
her were taken of with a breaches
buoy by the St Ives lifeboat crew.
Eleven others were drowned. Casual
ties caused by the storm are being re-
ported from many places.
A fishing smack foundered in the
North sea at the mouth of the river
Tees. All on board were lost The
Leith schooner Fidelity was wrecked
and one of her crew was drowned. The
American bark A. c. Bean, which
sailed from New Castle, n. b., October
l for Bowling, was blown ashore and
wrecked near Donegal, Ireland. The
crew. excepting two men, were
drowned. Timber from the wreck is
washing ashore.
The steam lighter Union, of Dundee.
went down in the Tay during the
storm Saturday afternoon. Four of
her crew were drowned The persons
lost in the wreck of the A. c. Bean off
Donegal were the captain and six
sailors. At Goole. Yorkshire, three
seamen were washed overheard
and drowned. The coast of Banff-
shire, Scotland, is strewn with wreck
age. A vessel, believed 20 be steam
err, was wrecked Friday hight off
Standend, Banffshire, and it is feared
that thirty persons were drowned
Lifeboats and tugs everywhere along
the coast have been kept busy and
have effected many rescues. Countless
small craft have been report
ed stranded. Piers, landings and
shore structures of all kinds have besu
greatly damaged Many vessels we:e
damaged by dragging their anchors p 4
colliding with other vessels.
The wind wrought havoc in the in
terror blowing down houses, chimneys.
gables, scaffolds, etc. Many persons
were injured and few fatal accidents
are reported in different parts of the
country.
The British steamship Hampshire,
l,59S tons, went down Sunday morning
off Gurnardshead. on the Cornish coast.
All the crew took to the boats One
boat reached shore, but the other went
down, ard the twenty-three men it
carried were lost
The Norwegian schooner Arne sank
off Filey, on tile Yorkshire coast. Only
one of the nine men aboard was saved.
A trawler wenst ashore near Reay, on
the Caithness coast, and seven Of the
eight men in its crew were lost
The British steamer Princess, 1870
tons, plying between Sunderland and
Bill oao, went to the bottom near Flam-
borough, Yorkshire, with all on board.
A Scotch trawler capsized off Scarbor,
ough, Yorkshire, and the eight men
h,.o ,.l A tr~ly
foundered off Malin head, county of
Donegal, ireland, Sunday afternoon
and the crew of eight was lost
The channel steamer Foam left Do
yer for Calais Sunday morning before
the company decided to suspend the
channel service. IL had the greatest
difficulty In entering Calais harbor
Its officers counted twenty-nine
wrecks, principally fishing boats.
in the Emile interval between
Gravelines and Calais They found
the east pierhead at Calais and
the lighthouse in Calais harbor swept
away. More than 600 feet of the pier
had been swept away in the night
Tremendous seas were still piling u
on the water front The harbor looked
as II it had been shaken by an earth
quake.
More thran 800 persons were drowned
between noon Saturday and noon Sum
day at Calais and in the immediate
neighborhood. Fifty bodies have been
recovered Off Winterton, county of
Norfolk, a schooner foundered shortly
before noon and five of the crew were
drowned. Trawlers, fshing smacks
and small craft of other sorts have
been reported by the score as missing
from every important point on the
coast
dispatch from Havre says the mon
ument in Dunkirk, erected to commem-
crate the victory at Hondschoote in
1878, was blown over Saturday evening
At 10 o'clock $50 deaths in the storm
had been reported. The losses of the
fishing fleet doubtless will raise the
number to 200 or more.
The people Of the Orkney islands, off
the north coast of Scotland, have sui.
fered terribly. Many houses were I'M
rooted Saturday, walls and barns were
leveled and haystacks were lifted from
the field and blown out to sea The
packet Osprey was to.a from its moor
ings and carried ont TO sea. IL mas not
been seen since. The whole plantation
of Dunbeath castle in Caithness, the
most northcrly county of Scotland, was
swept to the ground.
OVER THE FALLS.