Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1893-11-23
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scores Of YES els wrecked and Many L'v,s .
Lost by Great Hurricane ON tho British
Coast
LoNDoN, Nov. %. up to Sunday NOM
ing eighty lives were known TO have
been lost curing the gale which hiss
swept over the British coast fer forty
eight hours past aud 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 tie
weather which has just visited tho
coast of England, Scotland and ireland
is the most severe in many years. Dis
patches received from Banff say thit
the seashore for thirty miles is strewn
with the wreclxage 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
Some idea Of the force of the gale can
be gathered from the fact that two
heavy railroad engines were blown oil
the track near Inverness, blocking all
traffic north and necessitating the dis
patch of two owrecking trains to clear the
track The wrcckage trains have not
since been heard from, so 10 is supposed
that the work has been impeded by
fall of snow.
During the height OF the fury of the
gale the steamer Hampshire was driven
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TO pieces near Guernard's head, twenty
one of the Hampshires crew being
drowned, only one man managing 20
reach the shore alive.
The Lowestoft life-boat rescued the
crews of three s,hooners and later saved
twelve men from drowning, putting to
sea In the face of binding snowstorm.
The reports from the Tyne say much
damage has been done TO shipping 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 tar
barrel blazing on board of her as n 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
ward saw the steamer, with It's lurid
distress signal, rushing along, swept
by heavy seas and evidently in great
danger. After a long and exciting pur-
suit along the coast station after sta
ton of the coast guarl 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 board, they were 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 I o'clock in the
morning the Norwegian thrce-mastsi
vessel Armie was driven ashore ty the
fearful sea and wind prevailing, and
began TO pound to pieces on the rocks,
the seas making n clean sweep over her
and washing the crew overheard, one
after another, only the mate being
saved.
Later.-The midnight reports re-
ceived make the total number of deaths
from drowning during the gale 1874, and
this is without reckoning the crews of
several vessels which have been seen to
founder of the coast, and the total
fatalities, irrespective of the numerous
crews of missing fishing fleets, is esti-
mated at quite 200, according TO the
most conservative estimates II is im-
possible at this hour TO give in detail
the number and condition of the wrecks
or damage done To houses or property,
but latest reports are that the gale now
shows some signs of abatinp