The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-29
FURY OF THE STORM KING.
BRITAIN's COASTS DEVASTATED BY
WIND AND WAVE. /

Innumerabls shipwrscks, InYoliaa Great
Loss OF Life-Snow-Drifts Piled Up ON
tho Shores-soldiers Frozen to Death
at their Posts.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-The storm which
swept the United Kingdom all yesterday
was still furious at IL O'Clock today.
Throughout last night and this morning
reports of shipwreck were received al.
most necessarily. The Vulture and the
Bessie, small steamers, which took re-
tuge yesterday Afternoon in the harbor
Of st. Ives, on the Cornish coast, began
dragging their anchors towards evening.
Both signalled for help, but none could
be sent in such terrible weather. They
were driven ashore, and after two hours
OF perilous work the crews were rescued
with lite lines by the coast guard and
fishermen. 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 suf.
fered terribly. Many houses were un.
rooted yesterday, walls and 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 flying this morning
from vessel on the Goodwin sands, off
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 tho Welsh coast;
four of them were, breaking up. SIX other
vessels were making signals of distress.
The Yorkshire coast is strewn thick with
wreckags. Near WhitbY, three vessels
went ashore in the night aud wore going
to pieces at noon. The crews were
saved. TIE excursion steamers Tern
and S1al, Which were at anchor in
Wlndomere lake, Comfy Of Lancaster,
when the storm began, were torn loose
before daylight, aud both went to the
bottom. Of Winterton. County of Nor
folk, q schooner founded 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 i'm.
portant point on the coast. The loss of
life has been great, but no estimate OF
the number drowned is possible, as com.
munlcation with parts Of the coast has
been cut off. Dispatches from Havre
says that the n ornandY coast has suf-
fered more aevsrelY than for years.
Many lives have bsen lost. The ser.
vice of channel steamers has been sus.
pended completely.
At several points on the coast the
thermometer has fallen rapidly, aud the
high winds have piled up enormous
snow-drifts. Two soldiers were found
today frozen to death In q drift near
Portsmouth. The British steams ship
Hampshire, 1888 tons, went dows this
morning of Gurnardshsd, on the Cornish
coast. ALI the crew took to the boats.
One boat reached shore, but the other
went down, and the twenty-th,es men
which it carried were lost. Oae of the
sailors who were saved said that the
vessel sprang leak after having been
beaten about by the storm for five housr.
She was on her way to Liverpool from
Cardiff.
Reports of minor wrecks multiplied
rapidly this afternoon Tue Norwegian
schooner Arne sank of Filey, on the
Yorkshire coast. Qaly oae of the nlne
men aboard her was saved. A ira Tler
went ashore near Rsay, on the Cath
ness coast, and seven If the eight in her
crew were lost. Reports received from
Havre and Calais this eveaing say that
the storm along the Normaady coast is
the worst oae experienced In the last
fifty years. Wrecks are reported fro n
every point along the coast. Innamsr-
able small craft vanished last night from
the waters along the coast. Vessels
were dragged from their moarings and
SUNK with all on board.