The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-12-06
FIERCE BRITISH SEAS. !
THE COAST SWEPTFROM JOHN
O'GROATS TO LANDS END.
British Shores Lashed by One Of the
Worst of Storms - Wreckage
Strewn on Every Beach-Many
Lives Lost-Over 800 Seamen

w OrSt Oh SCOrmS - "FcChdSc
Strewn on Every Beach-Many
Lives Lost-Over 800 Seamen
Drowned at Calais.
One OF the worst storms ever known in
Great Britain ragged for three days and nights
and played havoc with the shipping as we'll
as destroyed scores of seamen. Stories Of
wreck and disaster poured in from all parts
ofthe coast where wires remained standing.
It was only with the greatest difficulty thai
communication was maintained with the
American cable station on the Irish and
Welsh coasts. ~, -.
The people of the Orkney Islands, off the
north coast of Scotland. have suffered ter.
ribly. Many houses were unroofed, walls
and barns were leveled, and .hsystacks were
lifted from the fields and blown out to sea.
Six vessels were ashore near Holyhead. of
the Welch coast. Four ofthem were break
ing up. Six other vessels were making sig
nails 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 were saved. The
excursion steamers Tern and Swan,
which were at anchor in Windermere
Lake, Lancaster when the storm began.
were torn loose before daylight, and
both went to the bottom. Off Win
terton, county of.Norfolk, East, England. a
schooner foundered shortly before noon, and
five of the crew were drowned. Trawlers,
fishing smacks and small craft of other sorts
have been reported by the score as missing
from every important point on the coast.
The loss of life has been great. ....
AtseVer8l points on the coast the ther-
mometer has fallen rapidly and the high
winds have piled up enormous snow drifts.
Two soldiers were found frozen to death in
q drift near Portsmouth.
The British steamship Hampshire, 1893
tons, went down of Gurnards Head, on the
coast Of Cornwall All the crew tookto the
boats. One boat reached shore, but the other
went down. and the twenty-three men which,
It carried were lost. -r-...,- 80. ...,.,
~ Reports Of minor wrecks multiplied rap
idly. The Norwegian schooner Arne sank
off Filey. on the Yorkshire coast. Only one
of the nine men aboard OF her was saved. A
trawler went ashore near Reay, on the CATH
ness coast. and seven of the eight In her
crew were lost The British steamship Prin-
cess. 1870 tons, plying between Sunderland
and Bilbao, went to the bottom near Flam-
borough. Yorkshire, with all on board. A
Scotch trawler capsized or Scarborough,
Yorkshire, and eight men aboard her were,
lost .
A Norwegian bark foundered of Malin
Head county Donegal, IrelaLd, and the
crew OF eight were lost. The steamer Mayo,
which plies between Dublin ard Liverpool,
arrived ct the latter port. Forty head OF
cattle were killed Gnd th1cwn overheard
during the voyage.
Reports received from HAVE and Calais
say that the storm along the Normandy
coast is the worst experienced in the last
fifty years. Wrecks are reported from every
point along the coast. Innumerat!e email
craft vanished from the waters along the
coast. Vessels were dragged from their
moorings and sunk with all on board.
The Channel steamer Foam had the great
est difficulty in entering Calais harbor.
Her officers counted twenty-nins wrecks,
principally fishing boats, in the twelve
mile interval between Gravelines and
Calais. They found the east pierhead
at Calais and the lighthouse in Calais
harbor swept away. More than 500
feet OF the pier had been swept away
IN the night. Tremendous seas were still
piling up on the water front. The h2rbor
looked as II It had been shakenby an earth
quake. More than 00persons were drowned
between noon and noon at Calais and IN the
immediate neighborhood. Fifty bodies were
recovered.
A forty-toni crane, used in completing the
harbor at Tynemoutb. was blown down and
the harbor works were damaged to the e1-
tent Of so 900. go. 81
A despatch from st. Ives, onthe north coast
of Cornwall, says that the steamer Cintra is
ashore at that place. Four persons on board
were taken off with breeches buoy by the
Ct. Ives lifeboat crew. Eleven others were
drowned.
The American bark A. C. Bean, from New
castle, New Brunswick, for Bowling, was
blown ashore and totally wrecked near
Donegal, Ireland. All OF the crew, except
ing two, were drowned.
At Darlington, forty-hve miles from York,
the Springfield Steel Works were blown
down, causing heavy loss. Dispatches from
various points to the north OF England re-
port extensive havoc. Hundreds upon hun
dres of trees were rprooted, fences and out
houses blown douc, and residences dam
aged. At Betwick-on-Tweed the roof OF the
North British Railway station was blown OH.
Many boats in the harbor were swamped.
Liieboats and tugs everywhere along the
coast were kept busy and effected many res
cues. Countless small craft have been re-
ported stranded. Piers, landings and shore
structures OF all kinds have been greatly
damaged. Many vessels were damaged by
dragging their anchors and collding with
other vessels.