The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-20
TUMULTUOUS BRITISH SEAS.
THEY POUND THE COAST ERoM JOIN
UGROATS TO LAMBS END.

OGROATS TO IdNDS END.
wreehsee strewn on Every shors-Masy
Lives Lost-Six Vessel. Ashore 1T Holy.
hssa. .rd six Others, Near BY, Making
Signals OF Distress = Soldiers Frozen to
Death In a snovdriu Near Portsmouth
Rescus OF the Steamship Heivetis-Ter-
ribis Los. Of Life ON the Normandy
Coast = Over 800 sesmsa Drowned In
Twenty.four Hours at Calais aud Near
by-CnIsi. Harbor Badly Damaged.
LONDON. Nov. 1o.--The storm which swept
The United Kingdom oil yesterday was still
furious at L. o'clock to- day. Throughout last
night and this morning reports OF shpwreck
were received almost necessarily
The vulture and the Bessie. small cleaners
which took refuge yesterday afternoon In the
harbor Of st. Ives. or tho Cornwall coast, be-
gnn dragging their anchors toward evening.
Both slgnalled for help. but none could be sent
In such terrible weather. They were driven
ashore. and after two hours OF perilous work
the crews we're rescued with life lines By the
coast guard and fishermen. Tho steamers
went to pieces In the tremendous seas which
rolled over them in the night. and this morn
Ing not a vestige OF either hull was seen.
The people OF the Orkney Islands, OF the
nOEln COabb OF DCOtlhuhs uhNo lOh hoiIApiJ'
Many houses were unroofed yesterday walls
and barns were leveled and haystacks were
lifted from the fields and blown out to sea.
The packet Osprey was torn from her moor
ings and carried out to sea. She has not been
seen since. The whole plantation OF Duubeath
Castle, on tho northeast coast OF Caithuess, tho
most northerly county OF Scotland. was swept
cloan to the ground.
Signals OF distress were seen flying this
morning from vessel on Goodwin Sands. OF
the coast OF Kent, in southeast England. Tho
fishermen on the shore made repeated efforts
to get lifeboats through tho sea to her. but
were driven back.
Six vessels were ashore this morning near
Holyhead. OF 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 Whitby three vessels went
ashore in the night and were going to pieces
at noon. The crews wero saved. The excur-
sion steamers Tern and Swan. which were at
anchor in windermere Lake, Lancaster. whom
the storm began. were torn loose before day
light and both went to the bottom. on Win
terton. county OF Norfolk. east England. a
schooner foundered shortly before noon. and
Eve OF the crew were drowned Trawlers. fish
ing smarks. ard small craft OF other sorts
from every important point on the coast. The
loss OF life has been great. but no estimate OF
the number drowned Is possible. as com NUM-
cation with many parts OF the coast has been
cut OF.
Dispatches from Havre say that the Nor
mandy coast OF France has been scourged
more severely than before In years Many
fishermen are known to have been lost: dozens
are missing. The service OF Chan mel steamers
has been suspended completely.
At several points on the coast the thermome-
ter has fallen rapidly and the high winds have
piled up enormous snow drifts. Two soldiers
were found to-day frozen to death In a drift
near Portsmouth.
The British steamship Hampshire. 1893
tons. went down this morning Off Gurnard's
Head. on the coast of Cornwall All the crew
took TO the boats One boat reached shore.
but the other went down. and the twenty-three
men which It carried were lost. one OF the
sailors tho were saved said that the vessel
BY the storm for nye hours; She was on her
way from Liverpool to Cardiff.
this afternoon The Norwegian schooner Hrns
sank on Filey, on the Yorkshire coast Only
oil he NINE ms 6or aea sd hnF was ssye
Caithness coast and seven Of the eight In her |
crew were ere . The British steamship Prin;
and Bilbao, went to the bottom near liam |
borough, Yorkshire. with all on board A
shire, and the eight men aboard her were lost.
A NorTegian bark founder9d OF Malin Head
the crew OF eight were lost The steam an
Mayo. which plies between Dubli and Liver
RoG arrived at , The latter PGTi tbs
overheard during tho voyage. The steamer
upupa. from Newport. which was disabled on
day aud proceeded to Cork lii consequences
Of the storm the steamer Umbria had to wait
two hours and forty minutes for her mails at
Reports received from Havre and Calais this
syening say that the storm along the NGr-
last lfty Years Wrecks are reported from
syerg point along the coast, lnngmeraDls
along the coast Vessels were dragged from
their moorings and sunk with all on board.
Cs,ais this morning before the companies de-
eided to SUSPEND the Channel service. She
wrecks, principally fishing boats, in the twelve
mile Interval between Gravellnes and Calais,
They found tho east pierhcad at Calais and the
ighthouse in Calais hRrbor swept away. More
Than 500 feet Q! the pier had been swept away
M on tho water front. The harbor looked as
!! it had been shaken by an EARTHQUAKE. More
yesterday and noon to-d day at { alais and in the
Immediate mel Ghborhood. Fifty bodies have
A crowd gathered at the docks In Liyerpool
last night to await the steamship Lucania hut
.h 4, ala not arrive until this morning The
pooh. Several OF them were disabled. The
Lqeania was towsd into the Mersey. which is
The British steam ship Sycamore which
sailed from Boston on Nov. T. e in the Msrsey:
many Of her cattle died or had to be killed
during the storm
The vessel reported. TO have been wrecked
probably the steamship Moray. She had
rev Of llttes1. all of whom are supposed to