The Hope pioneer., 1893-11-24
ENGLAND SNONBOUND.
A Hallway Train Ht~ca in \ Twenty FO'
Drift-.l.Sth. In the Storm.

Drift-:1ssth, In The Storm.
= LONDON, Ncv. :,2.-1 he Storm has
caused great Eavoc inland aid is con-
Sd ;fr5n &. W:.-,en branch of the Great
EaYtern "a; ;.ivay is blocked with snow.
and snow has also stopped all traffic
on the Great Northern railway between
Ashwell and harston. Near Ashwell u
train is imbedded in a 20-foot drift OF
snow, and gang. of 100 men with q
snow-plow have been at work trying to
get the way clear. :
The A:45 express train from London
for Cambridge was showed in Sunday
morning hear Royerston. One hun
dred lnen worked all day long in
digging out the train. Snowplows
had gone out in advance of the
train and they, tco, were irabed-
ded In the drifts. Toward night the
track was suttic:sntly clear for the train
to proceed. All went we'll until Rars-
ton ,wes reached, where The train stuck
/ again. The passengers chen abandoned
it. Mrs. Eyre. Il local carrier of Small
ey, was found deed IN the snow yester-
day on the road to O:..'by, to which
place she had started to walk Satur-
day.
The gale in the English channel was
renewed with fury Monday. AL the
boats running between Calais~' and
Dover are storm bound at these two
ports and vessels arriving at Dover re-
port having experienced the most fear
full weather in the channel and in the
North see. Disasters and fatalities are
reported on all sides and distressed YES
sells are to be seen off every part of the
coast The lifeboats have been work.
ing gallantly for nearly three days and
have succeeded ir saving 6 large num-
ber of lives.
1t is feared thsS tf,e loss Of life will
be greater than in any storm of re-
cent years. A spar bearing the name
Moray has come ashore at Sand End,
Banffshire. This is taken to confirm
the report that the steamer Moray was
lost off that place during the gale of
Friday night. There is now scarce.
ly a doubt that he: entire crew of
fifteen persons were drowned. The
Electro has foundered in the North SET.
near Heligoland. Her passengers and
crew were saved. Eight fishing smackc
from Hastings are missing and it is
feared that they were not able 10
ride out the storm. Man" smacks
are missing from Yarmouth. The
ship Samuel Landann has toun-
dered in Lynn channel. Five OF
her crew were drowned
The Glasgow steamer River Garry
has been wrecked at Dun bar, and her
crew, consisting of five officers and
about sixteen seamen, pc rished.
Inc gale continues at Yarmouth. The
herring boats which have arrived there
were in greatly damaged condition,
the value of their gear smashed being
at least 100000. Many fishermen have
been drowned.
MWreclsage and timber from a vessel
that stranded at Hartlepool have
washed ashore. Nothing has been seen
of the crew. A small steamer went
ashore near Cullen, Scotland, twelve OF
the crew drowning.
The ship Cam brian has been wrecked
at Nairn, Scotland. Three bodies have
already been washed ashore from tbs
wreck, and it is supposed that all of the
crew were lost. The gale prevails
chiefly upon the eastern and southern.
coasts.
Great damage was done at Lubbock,
Germany, by Sundays storm. The rivers
were very nigh and the district sur
rounding the harbor was inundated
until nightfall The shipping in the
narbor and near the shore suffered
heavily. Much damage was also done
in the villages il the vicinity. A dis
patch from Lubbock says that the gale
is reviving. The ship Surprise from
Blarritz, France, was wrecked at
Lubbock and five of her crew were
drowned.
OsTEND, Belgium, Nov 22.-The coast
of Belgium is being swept by a gale
almost phenomenal in its intensity.
Many fshing-ooats have been lost and
their crews drowned
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9 "A very heavy
gale is prevailing here and. elsewhere in
Holland. Dispatches received from the
coast towns report heavy loss of life
through the laundering of fishing