Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-20
An AWFUL STORM.
Wrecks and Loss Of Life
OFT The British Coasts.
APPALLING DEATH LIST
With Several Fishing Vessels
Yet Unheard From.
Gallant Work Of Life Savers In the Face
Of Great Obstacles.


hundred persons were drowned between
noon Saturday and noon yesterday at
Calais and in the immediate neiyhborhood
Fifty bodies have been recovered. Through
out Saturday nipht and yesterday reports
Of shipwreck were received almost inces-
sanity.
Dispatches received from Banff say
that the seash re for 80 miles Is strewn
with the wreckagr OF three vessels.
The schooner Pioneer Of Hull was the
frst vessel strand .d on Friday evening.
Shr WAS carried over the rocks and cast on
the sand; her crew weIe saved Ia their own
boat.
At Grangemouth the barkentipe Betty
was " rocked on the rocks, but the crew
were saw d. An unknown steamer was
next wrecked on the heacland and soon
went to pieces.
Wreckage Inscribed GranRemouth has
been washed ashore with quantity OF fit
tim 8. AM IL Is also repo ted thar several
fshiug b ats have been lost of the same
spot.
In Lough Feyle two wrecks are reported.
The A. G. Beane, from Miramichi, n.
B., which stranded ut Malin Head, Done
gal, lost her captain and even Of her crew.
The bark Laucefiell 10 ashore near Mo-
Vile
Three vessels have been wrecked near
Leiih, causing the loss, however, Of only
one lie.
Locomotives Blown From Tracks.
Some idea Of the force Of the gale can be
gathered from the fact that two heavy
railroad engines were blown of the track
H. nj Iverness, blocking all traffic north.
l. IA tv-ai han ata.
been heard from, 40 IL 10 supposed that the
work has beeI impeded by the fall Of
snow.
Three yachts and two coasting vessels
are ashore near Greenock.
Only four Of the IL members OF the
crew Of the steamer Cintra, which was
wrecked near st. Ives, Corn wall, escaped.
The coast qua d has been on the alert.
night ard day, all along the beach since
Frid,y evening, and many exciting res
cues by means Of the rocket apparat us
are r, ported. During these rescues he
coast guardsmen brought ashore the 8, a
Of the Vulture. Bessie and the four men
saved fro n I q Cintra
Late on S turday evening the steamer
Ro edale ent T., d the harb n OF ST. Ives,
but after letting 20 her ancho both
CHAINS carried away ID she drIfted to-
ward- the rocks and stranded The coast
gual d men managed t. rtscue the crew.
Con-iderab!r anxiety Is Expressed for the
safe, If the crrws Of hundred fishing
boa II which were last seen being driven
porthward by the force Il the gale
From all parts Of Ireland come reports
Of tie sever ty of the gale, which has b~en
accompanied there by II heavy snowstorn.
Several fat al les and hume on, Gases Of
injury are reported At Waterford. Carrick-
fergus, Belfast, Newry and Skbbereen.
Hundieds OF fishing DO to are m ssing aud
wrecks are reported; in addition the har-
bors are fiji d with weather-bound vessels
Much loss has also been cansed to live
| stock, and considerable damage has been
done TO houses and to produce. Tue land
Ing stage at Londonderry has vanished
and the steam ferry was sunk.
All but One Psrished.
During the hei hit Of tn. gale Saturday
evening the steamer Hampshire was
driven ashore in st. Ives and was pounded
to pi, ce-; 81 of the liamp,bires crew
were drowned; only one mau reached the
shore alive. The Hampshire belonged to
jlssgow and WAS of 25y7 registered tons.
She lett Liverpool on Thursday last and
was going to Cardiff for coal. She was
commanded by Captain Weir. Such was
the fury of the gale she encountered that
the steamer became slmost unmanageable
from the outset; the boil were torn from
the stanchion- to which a spar crank head
was fastened, loosening the lat ter aud
causing IL TO penetrate the ships side.
The coastgusrdsmen OF 81. Ives have
already since the commencement OF the
gale rescued ~ seameu and officers by
l. 1.
Many vessels have sought shelter, badly
damaged und- the ledge Of high, 1ntting
cliffs OF the cnannel, and at least two ves-
sells are known to have been lost on the
Goodwin sands Tue Dcal lifebo ts went
to the sssistanc. Il one Of the crews Of
thee vessels, tut we're ,Dmpeli-d to 70
turn W thout h,vinx been able TO rescue
any oi the end n gered seamen, a. both YES
sells disappeared b fore the lifsooats could
get aloDg-ld OF them.
Nine vessels were stranded bceween
Grlmsby and Cleethorps on SATURDAY., and
two OF these were dashed to pieces during
the night. 50 fearful was the sea that the
lifeboat was unable TO leave the harbor,
though it's crew u ade several attempts to
do so, aud lost their coxswain during one
Of the tse attempts
Several sieamers and u number OF sail
lug We 8, l. are in distress of Spurn Head,
at the entraUce Of the Humber river
York shire.
Fishermen Missing.
The schooner Wicklas>es has been
ecked upsr Ysrmou aud five Of her
crew were owned while tue boat lay on
ledge OF rocks, pounding to pieces In full
view Of thousands Of spectators who were
utterly unable TO b. Of any assistance TO
the drowning m n. 1t was impossible TO
launch the lifr bnat on account OF the tre-
msndous sea aud The schooner was to far
out 70 bs reached ~ the rockies line
Considerable snxiety 10 felt for the safety
Of the large Yarmouth herring neet, As
well ~ for . number Of Scotch hsning
boats which hs Just started for home
when the yale urst over the cost, and
which have not bseu heard from sin .