Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-11-23
WRECKS ON The ENGLISH COAST.
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Numerous Victims Of tho Oceans Fury
Rescued by Life Saving Crews, but
Scores OF Soamen arc Drowned
In Sight of Land.

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.
Up to Sunday morning eighty lives arc
known to have been lost during the gale
which had swept over the British coast for
forty-elght hours past, and In addition the
crews of several boats arc still missing. Dis
patches from Baun say that the seashore for
thirty miles Il strewn with wreckage of these
vessels. The schooner Pioneer Of Hull was
washed ashore Friday evening. She was car
ried over the rocks and cast on the sand
Her crew was saved In their own boat. At
Grangemouth the barkentine Betty was
driven on the rocks. but the crew was saved.
An unknown steamer WINS next wrecked on
the hcadland and soon went to pieces.
In Lough Foylc two wrecks aro reported.
The A. c. Beans from New Brunswick, which
stranded at Melin Head, Donegal, lost her
captain and seven Of her crew. The Swedish
seamen who were shipped on the A. G. Beans
were saved.
The barque Lanccfeld is reported ashore
near Neville. Owing to the severity Of the
weather the railroads and telegraph lines in
tho north Of Ireland are virtually stopped.
Three vessels have been lost near LeIth.
Some idea of the force of the gale can be
gathered from the fact that two heavy rail-
road engines were blown OIL the track near
Inverness, blocking all traffic north. Tho
wreckage trains have not since been heard
from, so 1t Is supposed the work has been i'm
peded by fall Of snow.
Three yachts and two coasting vessels arc
reported ashore near Greenock. Only four
of the twelve members 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 scenes by means OF rocket apparatus
are reported.
Saturday evening tho steamer Hampshire
was driven ashore In St. Ives Bay, and was
pounded to pieces near Guernnrd's Head.
Twenty -one of the Hampshirc's crew werc
drowned, only one man managing to reach
the shore alive. The Hampshire belonged In
Glasgow. She left Liverpool on Thursday
last, and was going to Cnruin for coal.
The guards of st. Ives have rescued forty
seamen and officers. Owing TO the severity
Of the storm, the mall boats running between
Dover and Calais have been compelled to sus-
pend their trip.
About 10 O'Clock Saturday night, amid tho
driving storm, large steamer was seen
running before the gale, with tar barrel
blazing on board as signal Of dlstress. Tho
Scarborough coast guard Immediately started
down with the rocket apparatus, but when
near Filey, eight miles from Scarborough, the
coast guardsrhen lost sight OF the steamer.
They, however, notified the coast guard sta
tion at Filey, who then took up the chase
The steamer, which was the Rose OF Aber-
deem, went ashore near Shreeton Cliff, where
coast guardsmcn managed to fire . rocket line
over her, and the crew, hauling the brceches
buoy on board, they were rescued just rs the
steamer seemed upon the point Of breaking
up.
The guardsmen had hardly got the men be-
longing to the Rose ashore through tho boil
lug scrf when at about o'clock In the morn
Ing the Norwegian three-masted vessel Armie
was driven ashore and began to pound to
pieces on the rocks, the sea making clean
sweep over her and washing the crew over
board one after another, only the mate being
saved.
The London Standard says: 1t is reported
hundreds OF lives have been lost in the storm
in the northern part of France. Many bodies
have been cast ashore In the northern part OF
France,