The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-11-24
A BRITISH STORM.
Terrible Hurricane, Lasting Three
Days, Reported.
HUNDREDS OF MEN ARE DROWNED.
Scores of Vessels Wrecked Along the
Coast-Gailant Work of Lifeboat
Men-The Storm Extends to
France.


ing eighty lives were known to have
been lost curing the gale which has
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,
1t 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 wreckage 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
Bette was driven on the rocks. but the
crew was saved. An unknown steamer
soon went to pieces. Wreckage in
scribed ''Grangemouth" has been
washed ashore with a 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. G. 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. q.
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 necessitating the dis
patch of two wrecking 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
II of snow.
Three yachts and two coasting YES
sells 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 Iampshire's crew being
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 blin1 snowstorm.
The reports from the he say much
damage has been done t. -!pping 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 Il tar
parrel blazing on board of her as 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 Filey.
who then took up the chase and after
Al. "a I
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 guari being noti-
fed 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 breeches buoy tackle
on boarl, they wert 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 l 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
and washing the crew overheard. one
after another, only the mate being
| saved.
The fishing boat Vine during the gale
capsized 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.
osoldiers attempted - cross Ports
down hill near Portsmouth. and We're
found dead in the snow. The Holy
head guardsmel, at risk to themselves,
succeeded in rescuing twenty-seven
men from five vessels