The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-23
A BRITISH STORM.
Terrible Hurricane, Lasting Three
 Days, Reported.
HUNDREDS OF MEN ARE DROWNED,
scores of Vessels Wrecked Along the Coast-(ialiant Work of Lifeboat Men The storm Extends to
 France.

! ing e1gnty lives were known 10 nave been lost during the gale which ha: swept over the British coast for forty eight hours past and in addition the crews of several boats are still missing The news arriving every hour records further fatalities, and details the great damage done by the storm,
 It is generally agreed that the weather which has just visited the coast of England, Scotland and Ireland is the most severe in many years. Dis patches received from Banff say that the seashore for thirty miles is strewn with the wreclage of vessels. The schooner Pioneer of Hull was washed ashore Friday evening. She was car. ried over the rocks and cast on the sand The crew was saved in their own boat.
 At Grangemouth the barkentine Bettie was driven on the rocks, but the crew was saved. An unknown steamer was next wrecked on the headland and soon went to pieces. Wreckage in scribed "Grangemouth" has been washed ashore with quantity of in ternal fittings, life-boats, etc, and it is also reported that several fishing boats have been lost off the same spot.
 In Lough Foyle two wrecks are re- ported. The A. c. Beane, from New Brunswick, which stranded at Melin Head, Donegal, lost her captain and seven of her crew The Swedish sea- men who were shipped on the A. G.. Beane were saved. The barque Lance field is reported ashore near Neville.
 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 neu~ssitating the dis patch of ftwowrecking trains to clear the track The wreckage trains have not since been heard from, so it is supposed that the Work has been impeded by a f Il of snow.
 Three yachts and two coasting ves- sels are reported ashore near Greenock. Only four of the twelve embers of the crew of the steamer Cintra. which was wrecked near St Ives, Cornwall, escaped. 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 the rescues the coast guardsmen brought ashore the seamen of the Vulture, Bes- sic and the four men saved from the Cintra.
 During the height of the fury of the gale the steamer Hampshire was driven ashore in St. Ives bay and was pounded to pieces near Guernard's head, twenty one of the Hampshire's crew being drowned, only one man managing to reach the shore alive.
 The Lowestoft life-boat rescued the crews of three schooners and later saved twelve men from drowning, putting to sea in the face of binding snowstorm. The reports from the Tyne say much has been done to shipping there and that several small boats have been sunk, There have also been many cases of personal injury by falling chimneys and other such accidents.
 At about 10 o'clock at night, amid the driving storm, large steamer was seen running before the gale with tar barrel blazing on board of her as a sig nal of distress. The Scarborough coast guard immediately started down with the rocket apparatus, but when near Filey, eight miles from Scarborough, the coast guardsmen lost sight of the steamer. They managed, however, to notify the coast guard station at Eiley, who then took up the chase and after ward saw the steamer, with it's lurid distress signal, rushing along, swept by heavy seas and evidently in great danger. After long and exciting pur- suit along the coast, station after sta ton of the coast guard being noti- fled to be on the lookout for the vessel in distress, the steamer was finally driven ashore and was made out to be the Rose of Aberdeen The steamer went ashore near Shreeton Cliff, where coast guardsmen managed to fire a rocket line over her, and the crew hauling the brooches buoy tackle on board, they were rescued just as the steamer seemed upon the point of breaking up. The coast guardsmen had hardly got the men belonging to the Rose ashore through the boiling surf when, at about o'clock in the morning the Norwegian three-masted vessel Armie was driven ashore by the fearful sea and wind prevailing, and began to pound to pieces on the rocks, the seas making a clean sweep over her md washing the crew overheard, one after another, only the mate being saved.
 The fishing boat Vine during the gale off Scarborough and was lost to sight, while thousands of people saw the crew struggling terribly in the waves and sink after being completely exhausted.
 Twosoldiers attempted to cross Ports lown hill near Portsmouth, and were found dead in the snow. The Holy head guardsmen, at risk to themselves, in rescuing twenty-sevep ner. froi: five vessels
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 Clippings.
 The Bethlehem Iron Co. shipped re- gently sixty-four tons of plate for the Maine to the national prov