The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-20

BNGLAND'S AWFUL GALE
A Very Brief Lu1l, Then
Renewed With Seeming
ly Increased Fury.
MANY VESSELS MISSING.
The Loss Of Life Will Be Greater
Than in Any Storm Of
Recent Years.
MANY VESSELS MISSING.
Rv Cable to the United Press.

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| LONDON, Nov. 90, 1898. There was some
great storm that swept over these islands.
The lull was very brief. aud then the gale
was renewed with seemingly increased
fury. Vessels are arriving hourly at
Dover and MANY of them report narrow
| ESCAPES from wreck. Many steamers
have reached Dover with their smoke
stacks gone. The Channel steamer from
Calais. due at Dover last night, had not
arrived at eleven o'clock this morning.
A heavy snow fall is reported in some
parts of the county. A traiu left Saffron
Walden, in Essex, at eight O'clock this
morning, bound for Haverhill. Tt got
| stuck in the snow at Bartlow, aud find-
lug it impossible to proceed, returned to
| Saffron Walden. Tue snow lies 10 drifts
| twelve feet deep on the railway.
AS the day progresses. reports OF
wrecks and loss Of life coma In from thu
| coast towns and villages With which telev
graphic communication has been cut off.
| 1t is feared that the loss Of life will be
| greater than in any storm OF recent years.
A spar bearing the name Moray has
come ashore at Sand End, Banff5hire.
This Is taken to confirm the report that
| during the gale of Friday night. There
\ is now scarcely doubs that her eutire
| crew of fifteen persons We're drowned.
| The Electro has foundered in the North
| Sea near Heligoland. Her passengers
and crew were saved.
| Eight tishing smacks from Hastings
are missing, and 1t is feared that they
| were not able to ride out the storm.
EXPRESS TRAIN SHOWED IN.
The fOrIy-1ve minutes past eight eX-
press train from London for Cam bridge
WAS showed In Yesterday morning near
\ Royston. One hundred men worked all
dav long in digging out the train. Snow
\ plows had gone out in advance OF the
train, and they, too, were embedded in
\ the drifts. Toward wight the track was
sufficiently clear for the train to pro-
| ceed. All went well until Harston was
| reached. where the train stuck again.
| The passengers abandoned 1t.
Mrs. Eyre. local carrier Of Smalley.
| was found dead in the snow yesterday on
| the road to Derby. to which place she
had started to walk Saturday.
Many smacks are missing from Var
mouth.
The ship Samuel Lsndann has foun-
| dered in Lynn Channel. Five of her crew
were drowned.
The British steamer River Garry has
| gone down off Dun bar, at the mouth of
| the Firth of Forth. It is feared that all
on board of her were drowned. Oae body
| has been washed ashore.
Two large vessels are ashore at Dun
gepess on the English Channel
| A three-masted vessel ls ashore in
| Dover Roads.
| ALL ON BOARD DROWNED.
| A dispatch from Hythe, on the Eng
lish Channel, eleven miles southwest
| of Dover, states that q three -masted ves-
| sci foundered of that place today. A part
| of the crew took to the small boats, but
before they had got far from the vessel
the boats were swa nDed and all of them
| were drowned. When the vessel sank
her topmasts stood above the water.
| Nine men cruld be seen for hours cling~
| ing to The upper rigging with the
water sweeping over them. The vessel
was too far of shore for a rocket to
reach her. and 1t would have been fools
| hardy to have attempted to get life-
boat through the surf that was pounding
4 with terrific roar upon the beach. There
| is scarcely a chance that s. single man In
the rigging will get ashore alive. In
| fact. some OF them have already been
| swept off into the sea.
| Three ships are ashore between Dym-
church and Romney, on the English
| Channel.
Distress signals were thrown up by the
stranded vessels, but no assistance
] could be rendered from the shore.
| LIFE SAVING CREW swAMPED.
The Dungeness life saviag Grew tried
| to get their boat adoat, bus they were
swampsd and throwR tpso Bas sea- Their
cork jaRkets saved them FROM DIRE mag.
| The W hsle KsRtish coast is strswa wi th
| wreeks of large and small vessels, aad it
ia bslievsd thai aside FROM those heard
| Of many others have been wrecked at
| places remote from telsgraphic commune
cation.
The maritime underwriters will sus-
tain heavy losses through the storm.
Foundered In the River Scheld.
Bv Gable to the United Press.
ANTWERP Nov 90 1898 A vessel