The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-11-30
FUZZY OF THE STORM KING
o"' 'A'NS COASTS DEVASTATED ey
WIND AND WAVE.

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'"' shores-sold'ers Frozen to Deaf,
at their Posts.
LONDON, Nov. l9.-The storm which
swept the United Kingdom all vesterdon
was was stili furious at II O'Clock tod!
Throughout last night and this morn;nr
reports OF shipwreck were received aI'
most lnccssantly. The Vulture and tho
bessie, small steamers, which took "a.
luse Yesterday AFTERNOON in the barbor
OF 81. Ives, on the Cornish coast. heoon
Dragging their anchors towards EVENING
Both slgnalled for help, but none could
be 8 snt in such terrible weather. Thau
were driven ashore, and after two hours
or periious wo:k the crews were rescued
with LIE lines by the coast guard and
nshermen. The stea ners went to
pieces IN the tremendous seas which
rolled over them in the night, and this
morning not vestige Of either hull was
seen. "'''
The people of the Orkney islands. of
the north coast Of Scotland. have snf.
tered terribly. Many houses were IN.
rooted yesterday, walls aud barns were
leveled and haystaCks were lifted from
the fields and blown out to sea, The
packet Osprey was torn from her moor.
lngs and carried out to sea, she has not
been seen since. The whole plantation
of Dunbeath Castle, in Caithness. the
most notherly county Of Scotland, was
swept clean to the ground. Signals Of
distress were seen dying this morning
from vessel on the Goodwin sands, of
the Kentish coast. The fishermen on
shore made repeated efforts to get life
boats through the sea, but were driven
back.
Six vessels were ashore this morning
near Holy Head, Off the Welsh coast;
four OF them re.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 were
saved. The excursion steamers Tern
and Swan, which were at anchor in
Wlndomere lake, County of Lancaster,
when the. storm began, were torn loose
before daylight, and both went to tue
bottom. or Winterton, County of Nor.
folk, a schooner founded shortly before
noon and five of the crew were drowned.
Trawlers, fishing smacks aud small
craft CT other sorts have been reported
by the score as missing from every i'm
portant point on the coast. The loss of
LIE has been great, but no estimate Of
the number drowned is possible, as COM
munlcatlon with parts Of the coast has
been cut Of. Dispatches from Havre
says that the Normandy coast has suf-
tered more severely than foIS years
Many lives have been lost. The ser
vlco of channel steamers has been sue
pended completely.
Az several points on the coast tht
has fallen rapidly, and the
oigh winds have piled up enormous
Two soldiers were found
.oday frozen to death in a drift nea,
'ortsnionth. The British Steamship
hampshire, 1903 tons, went dows this
morning of Gurnal dshed, on the Cornish
coast. All the crew took to the boats.
Jne boat reached shore, but the other
vent down, and the twenty-three men
Which 1T carried were lost. One of the
allors who were saved said that the
'essel sprang a leak after having been
oeaten about by the storm for five housr,
she was on her way to Liverpool from
cardiff.
Reports of minor wrecks multiplied
apldly this afternoon. The Norwegian
chooner Arne sank of Filey, on the
orkshlre coast. Only one Of the nlne
nen aboard her was saved. A trawler
vent ashore near Reay, on the Cath
less coast, and seven Of the eight in her
rev were lost. Reports received from
lavre and Calais this evening say that
ne storm along the Normandy coast is
nc worst one experienced in the last
Itty years, Wrecks are reported fro n
very point along the coast. Innumer-
Die small craft vanished last night from
he waters along the coast. Vessels
we're dragged from their mo arings and
unK with all on board.
Stranded In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Four women of