Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-11-23
MANY LIVES LOST.
Terrible Hurri cane Along the Brit
ish Coast.
Scores of Yes Lost and Hundreds OF
Men Reported crowHed-A Storm
That Lasted over Three
Days
Wreck and Ruin.

LONDON, Nov. ~. ~ p TO sunday morn
ing eighty lives were known to have
been lost uring the gale which has
swept over the British coast for forty
eight hours past and in addition the
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 wreckage 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 wrecl>ing 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
~, Il, -
sea in the face of "a bl nding 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. large steamer was
seen running before the gale with tar
barrel blazing on board of her as a 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 siTht of the
steamer. Thev managed, however, to
notify the coast guard station at F'iley,
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-
fed 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 a rocket line over her, ana 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
the Rose ashore through the boiling
surf when, at about 1 o'clock in the
morning the Norwegian three-masted
; vessel Armie was driven ashore by the
fearful sea and wind prevailing, and
began to pound to pieces on the rocks
the seas making clean sweep over her
and washing the crew overheard, one
after another, only the mate being
saved.
Later.-The midnight reports re-
ceived make the total mum Der of deaths
from drowning during the gale 13f, and
this is without reckoning the crews of
several vessels which have been seen to
founder off the coast, and the total
! fatilities, irrespective of the numerous
crews of missing fishing fleets is esti-
mated at quite 20O according to the
most conservat-a estimates. 1t is i'm
! possible at thi ur to give in detail
the mum Der and condition of the wrecks
or damage done to houses or property,
but latest reports are that the gale now
shows some signs of abating.
The Storm Continues.
| LONDON, Nov. 21.-The gale in the
English channel was renewed with
| fury yesterday. All the boats running
between Calais and Dover are storm
| bound at these two ports, and vessels
| which arr, arriving at Dover eYer.u hour