The Meeker herald., 1893-11-25
WRECKS ON The ENGLISH COAST.
TWO, HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Numerous victims of the Oceans Fury
Rescued by Life Saving Crews, but
Scores of Seamen arc Drowned
in Sight of Land.

II Ia 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 are
known to have been lost during the gale
which had swept over the British coast for
forty -el ghc hours past, and in addition the
crews of several boats are still missing Dis
patches from BauG say that the seashore for
thirty miles is strewn with wreckage of these
vessels The schooner Pioneer Of Hull was
washed ashore Friday evening. She was car
RED over the rocks and cast on the sand.
Her crew was saved In their own boat. Al
Grangemouth the bsrkentinc Betty was
driven on the rocks. tut the crew was saved
An unknown steamer was next wrecked on
she headland and soon went TO pieces.
In Tough Foyle two wrecks are reported
The A. c. Beans from New Brunswick, which
stranded at Mein Head, Donegal, lost her
captain and seven of her crew. The Swedish
seamen who were shipped on the A. e. Beans
were saved.
The barau. Lsnoe6siI is reported ashore
near Neville. Oking TO the severity OF the
weather the railroads and telegraph lines in
the north of ireland are virtually stopped.
Three vessels have been lost nea. Lcith.
Some idea OF the force OF the gale can be
| gathered from the fact that two heavy rail-
road engines were blown OF the track near
| Inverness, blocking all traffic north The
wreckage trains have not since been heard
from, so 1t is supposed the work has been In
! pcded by fall Of snow.
| Three yachts and Two coasting vessels are
reported ashore near Grcenock. Only four
] nf M. aly nj
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 the steamer Hampshire
was driven ashore In St. Ives Bay, and was
pounded to pieces near Guernard's Head
| Twenty one of the Hampsh're's crew were
drowned, only one man managing TO reach
the shore alive. The Hampshire belonged In
Glasgow Sne left Liverpool on Thursday
last, and was going to Caruin for coal.
The guards OF ST. Ives have rescued forty
| seamen and officers. Owing 10 the severity
of the storm the mail boats running between
Dover and Calais have been compelled 10 sus-
pend their trip
/ ABOUT ~ v CIOCh hhiia 'hN
| driving storm, n large steamer was seen
running before the gale, with tar barrel
blazing on board as a signal 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, however, notified the coast guard sta
ton at Filey, who then took up the chase
The steamer, which was the Rose OF Abet-
deem, went ashore near Shreeton CHI, where
coast guardsmen managed to fire rocket lin,
over her, and the crew. hauling the brccchc'
steamer secosd h1 Sos f s TSafTed just as H.
up.
| The guardsmcn had hardly got the men be
longing to the Rose ashore through the boil.
lug serf, when at about O'Clock in the morn
ing the Norwegian three masted vessel Armie
was driven ashore and began to pound Il,
pieces on the rocks, the sea making a cleaL
sweep over her and washing the crew over.
board one after another, only the mate bcln,
saved.
The London Standard says: 1t is reported
hundreds o! lives have been lost In the storm
in the northern part Of France. Many bodle,
have been cast ashore In the northern part OF
France.