The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-20
STILL BLOWING LIKE MAD.
The Loss Of Life Off the British Coast
Very Heavy.


rible Suffering Among the People
of Scotland.
London, Nov. 19.-The storm which
swept the United Kingdom all yesterday
was still furious at u O'Clock to-day.
Throughout last night and this morning
reports of shipwreck were received almost
incessantly. 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 signalled for help, but none could be
sent in such terrible weather. They
were driven ashore, and after two hours
of perilous work the crew were rescued
with life lines by guards and fishermen.
The steamers went to pieces in the ire
mendous seas which rolled over them in
the night, and this morning not a vestige
of either hull was seen.
SUFFERING ON THE ISLANDS.
The people of the islands off the north
coast of Scotland have suffered terribly
Many houses were unrOOfed yesterday,
walls and barns were levelled, and hay
stacks were lifted from the fields and
DIOWu OuJ 10 SGd. Lie 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 from the
ground.
Signals of distress were seen flying this
morning from a vessel off Goodwin Island,
off the north coast. Fishermen on the
shore made efforts to get life boats
through the sea, but were driven back.
SIX ASHORE NEAR HoLLYHEAD.
Six vessels were ashore this morning
near Hollyhead, on the Welsh coast. Four
of them were breaking up. Six other
vessels were making signals of distress.
The Yorkshire coast Is strewn thick
with wreckage.
Near Whitley three vessels went ashore
during the night. The crews were
saved. The excursion steamers Lern
and Swan, which were at anchor
in Windemere lake, county of Lancaster,
where the storm began, were torn loose
before daylight and both went to the
bottom.
OF Winlerton, a schooner foundered
shortly before noon and FIVE of the crew
were drowned.
Wrecks Of fishing smacks and small
craft of other sor s. have been reported
by the score ana as missing IRON every
important point on the coast
The loss of life has been great, but no
estimate of the number drowned is possi-
bic, as communication with many parts
of the coast has been cut of.
ON THE NORMANDY COAST.
Dispatches from Havre say that the
Normandy coast has suffered more
severely than for years Many lives have
been lost. The service of the channel
steamers has been suspended completely
At several points on the coast the ther-
or hng fol n l, sr,I,
winds have piled up enormous snow
drifts. Two soldiers were found to-day
frozen to death in a drift near Ports
mouth.
A STEAMER FOUNDERS.
The British steamship Hampshire, l.
593 tons, went down this morning off Cur
nardshead, on the Cornish coast. All the
crew took to the boats. One boat reached
shore, but the others went down. One of
the sailors who was saved said that the
vessel sprang a leak after having been
beaten about by the storm for five hours.
Reports of minor wrecks multiplied
rapidly this afternoon. The Norwegian
schooner Arne sank off Filey, on the York
shire coast Only one of the nine men
aboard her was saved.
A trawler went ashore near Reay, on
the Calthness coast and seven or eight of
her crew were lost
The British steamship Princess, 80
tons, plying between Sunderland and
BllbOa, went to the bottom near F'lam-
borough, Yorkshire, with all on board.
A trawler capsized off Scarborough
Yorkshire and the eight men board were
lost
FEARS FOR THE HELvETIA.
The steamship Killarney, which ar
rived to-day at Cork, reports that she
found the National Line steamship Hell
M a 1c Of CT ho,,
ten miles from Milford. The captain Of
the Helvetia asked that his vessel be
taken in tow to that port and several
HawSers were passed to her from the
Killarney They all snapped as
soon as the Killarney steamed ahead
The Killarney stood by the Hell
yetia for five hours, and then as the
Jury of the storm was increasing, was
obliged to leave. 1t is regarded as very
doubtful that the steamer in distress was
the national liner Helvetia. The steam
lrawler Helvetia was in distress on Sat |
urday not far from Milford. and the cap
tain Of the Killarney is believed to have
mistaken her for the National Line vessel.
The captain insists, however, that he is
not mistaken.
A BARK GOES DOWN
A Norwegian bark foundered off Malin
Head, county of Donegal, Ireland, this
afternoon, and a number of lives were
lost.
Reports from Havre and Calais this
evening say that the storm along the Nor
mandy coast is the worst one experienced
IN the last fifty years. Wrecks are re
ported from every point along the coast.
HUNDREDS LOST IN THE CHANNEL.
The channel steamer Foam left Dover
Tor Calais this morning before the COM
panles decided to suspend the channel
service. She had the greatest difficulty
IN entering Calais harbor. Her officers
counted twenty-nine wrecks, principally
Ishlng boats, in the twelve-mile interval
between Gravelines and Calais.
they found the east pier head at Calais
and the lighthouse in Calais harbor swept
away. More than 600 feet Of the pier had
Deen swept away in the night. Tremen-
0ous seas were still piling upon the water
'front.'. The harbor looked as if it had
oeen shaken by an earthquake. More
imam 300 persons were drowned between
noon yesterday and noon to-day at Calais
dH9 the immediate neighborhood Fifty
po9!es have been recovered.
Inc vessel reported to have been
wrecked off Land End, Banffshire, on
fiday was probably the Moray. She