The Portland daily press., 1894-12-24
A TERRIBLE GALE.
Immense Destruction Caused by Storm
in England.
Vessels Driven Ashore and Many Lives
Lost-A Bad Railroad Wreck Caused
by the Wind-An Traffic Suspended at
Liverpool.

LoSt-A Bad Railroad wreck Caused
by the Wind-All Traffic Suspended at
Liverpool.
London. December 23.-Reports of
death and da mage to property in the
great storm are received constantly.
Three fishing smacks went down last
mig off Tornaway, on the Scotch coast,
and all three crews, numbering %. were
drowned. The British bark Kirkmich-
ael, was driven on the breakwater at
Holy head yeterday and flied. Twelve
of the crew were saved with the breech-
es buoy, and seven were drowned. Many
cotters on the Donegal coast lost their
huts in the storm.
AT Teelin house collapsed. and three
occupants were killed, land in Stranorlar
two persons were killed by falling
chimney. Several vessels went adrift in
A Aberdeen harbor aud grounded. The rocf
of the Macdonal art gallery was ripped
jured. The brig Loven was wrecked i'll
the Firth of Clyde, near Androssan, and
her crew of five drowned.
At Loch Winnoch, near Paisley, part
of three story cabinet factory was
wrecked. and forty persons buried in the
ruins. Fonr were killed outright and
30 injured seriously. Only five escaped
injury.
The coast steamship Brook stranded
last night near Berwick, Scotland. Her
crew was brought ashore with the
breeohss buoy. The gables were blown
OF and a dozen houses in Yarmouth
Volfokshire, and the tides in the river
are several feet abovesnormal high water
marx. Hundreds of houses were flooded.
Scores OF small steamers and sailing ves-
sells are aground on nthe coast. but the
majority will be hoated. Numerous cas-
ca of death or severe injury from falling
tim bers, trees and ohimneys are report
ed this afternoon from all the parts OF
the United Kingdom.
Dispatches from the Continent say
that northern France and Germany
suffered severely from the storm, and
the loss of life and property cannot be
estimated.
and collided or grounded. The tide was
the highest seen since 1882. The lower
parts of Wilhelmshaven, on the North
Sea, are flooded, and the dykes would
havesgone if the garrison had not worked
theoretically for hours to strengthen
them. Lubbock and Colberg suffered
much damage.
London, December e23.-The British
ship Arklow, before reported ashore off
Garroch Head, Butte Island, Scotland,
has nine feet of water. in her hold at low
water, and she is in dangerous posi-
tion.
The American bark. Bonanza, ashore
at East London, Africa, IS full of water,
and part of her cargo has been taken
ashore. No fatalities attended the dis
aster, and mostsof the cargo was saved.
The Bonanza hailed from Port Gam BILE
August 31st, for South Africa.
The British bark Tamar f. Marshall
"a ah iao
driven in on the sand banks at Gree
mock. The Norwegian schooner Abanak
ashore at Clivelry.
b IN FRANCE.
Paris, Decem Der 23.-The storm which
swept northwestern Europe has done
great damage in Belgium. The Dendre
OVERT owed its banks at Termonde, and
the inhabitants were reused at midnight
by the ringing of bells to flee for their
lives. In Romardan the water rose IL
feet above the usual high water mark.
The streets are under two or three feet
of water, and tine inhabitants padded
about on RATS and in boats. The dykes
of the Meuse were strained severely, and
at one place the dyke broke and the
food covered wide area and did enor-
nous damage. Throughout the Neither
lands and Belgium many people were in
jured and few killed by falling CHM
neys and timbsrs. The pilot cutter
Lamaneur capsized off Dunkirk.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED.
Fifteen persons were killed and many
injured by collision today between the
Manchester express and goods train.
The express train was filled with persons
going home for the holidays, and was
proceeding at high speed for Chelford,
the next stop, IA miles distant. The
Crewe freight train was switching
across the main line. The engineer Of
the express did not see the other train
until the locomotive Was close upon it.
The brakes were applied instantly, but
without perceptible effect. There was
a terrific crash. and several cars went to
pieces like pasteboard. The injured
number so, and the severely injured 20.