The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-22

LONDON, Nov. 19.-Up to Sunday
morning at least eighty lives are known
to have been lost during the gale which
has swept over the British coast for
forty-eight hours past, and in addition
the crews Of several boats are still miss
ing.N
The news arriving every hour records
further fatalities and details the great
damage done by the storm. 1t is gen
orally agreed that the weather which
has just visited the coast of England,
Scotland and Ireland is the most severe
in many years Dispatches received
from Banoff say the seashore for thir-
ty miles is strewn with wreckage. The
schooner Pioneer was the first vessel
stranded Friday evening She was car
ried over the rocks and cast on the
sand. Her crew was saved. At Grange
mouth, the Barkentine Bette was
wrecked ON the rocks, but the crew was
saved An unknown steamer was next
wrecked on the head land and soon went
to pieces. Wreckage inscribed Grange
mouth" has been washed ashore with
quantity of internal fittings. hfe-boats.
etc. and it is also reported that several
fishing boats have been lost off the same
spot. In Tough Feyle two wrecks are
reported. The A. c. Beane from
Miriamichi, New Brunswick. which
stranded at .Nelin Head. Donegal, lost
her captain and seven of her crew. The
Swedish seamen who were shipped on
the A. c. Became were saved. The barque
Lancefield is reported ashore near
Neville.
weather StnI severe.
Owing to the severity of the weather
the railroads and telegraph lines in the
north of Ireland are virtually stopped.
Three vessels have been wrecked near
Leight causing the loss. however. of
only one life, the other endangered sea-
men being rescued by the life boats
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 wrecking trains TO clear
the track The wreckage trains have
not been heard from, SO it is supposed
the work has been impeded by a fall
of snow.
Three yachts and two coasting vessels
are reported ashore near Greenock.
Only four of the twelve members of the
crew Of the steamer Cintra, which was
wrecked near St. Ives, Cornwall, cs-
capped. The coast guard has been on
the alert night and day all along the
beach since Friday evening. and many
exciting rescues by means of the rocket
apparatus are reported. During these
rescues the coast guaTdsmen brought
ashore the seamen of the Nulture, the
Bessie and four men saved from the
Cintra. Late on Saturday evening the
steamer Rosedale entered the harbOr
OF st. Ives. but after letting go her
anchors, both chains were carried away
and she dTifted toward the rocks. The
coast guardsmen manned their life boat
and were preparing TO go to the rescue
when the Rosedale stranded on the rocks
and they with difficulty managed to res
cue the crew by means of the rocket
line Tremendous damage has been
done at West Hartlepool by the storm,
which will cause much loss and conse-
quent suffering to the miners of that
locality
Considerable anxiety is expressed for
the safety of the crews of a hundred
fishing boats which were last seen be
ing driven northward by the force of the
gale From all parts of ireland where
there is Geographic communica ton
gale, which has been accompanied there
by a heavy snow storm. Several ia
talfties and numerous cases of injury
are reported at Waterford, Carr!ck
Ferguson, Belfast, Newry and Skib-
bereen> Hundreds OF fishing boats are
missing and numerous wrecks are re-
ported I'm addition. and harbors are
filled with weather-bound vessels. Much
loss has also been caused to live stock
and considerable damage has been done
TO houses and produce. The landing
stage at Londonderry has vanished
and the steam ferry has sunk.
The Hampshire's Wreck.
During the height of the fury Of the
gale yesterday evening the steamer
Hampshire was driven ashore in ST.
Ives bay and was pounded to pieces
near GueTnard's head, twenty-one of the
Hampshire's crew being drowned, only
one man managing to reach the shore
alive. The Hampshire belonged to Glas-
cow and was of 1851 registered tons.
She left Liverpool on Thursday last
and was going to Cardiff for coal. She
was commanded by Capt. Weir. Such
was the fury of the gale she encountered
| that the steamer became almost I'M
manageable from the outset, and the