The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-23
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Vessels wreekva and Raiiatuxs De-
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T.aasen. Dee "a severe gale has
hesa bscwias sEaes yesterday e&er&sss
al over Crest BTsssla saa snallhea..
srs delayed * ali PORTS $1neraus
rsl nor casualties are reported AZ seR ard
ashore. Ch2mnsys aave erea blown
down every shsrs. as13 IN sasae parts II
Ersglaza1 the wsns8 has heen hiaw3aw yagy
nasa. Seversl snasu vessels On the
cesss are renertas aylnS slsnals eg dis
tress The steamer Relea Mar has heea
driven ashere ea fee norih coast 81
lFelana sna four .. TIE crew drowned
Aise Bct.sh eark Klrsrnschaei. capt.
Jones. was driven on the north end ~
ne aveaSNsEter 81 Holyhes8. some az
TIE crew wsre landed ~ mieanS O. the
r0cAst apparatus bat TWO arn LETT Foar
ef The rsSeeea ates from exhaustion. rhe
BARK - a total losS The SEA Is rolling
over the bFc&kRater. TIE Norwegian
naTks Tfsao1a and Nalhau parted their
cables on PaTrhvn. Carnarvoasaire. aFsi
went asaare. The Carnarvon Afc boat
has been sent ops "a save the crews The
schooner Dart fartesI her cable oa An
eieSey and grounded 3 few INITIATES later.
TIE bark Izotos "A ashore az Southport
The 5000 tons steamship BrEtlsA Queen
lost two anchors. with sixty fathonps og
chain. and went ashore aS Long Beach.
She Is expected 70 float al the next tide.
At Lancaster TIRE wind blew the rocf
OF house aFi the whole structure COLI
lapsed. ourying three persons n the cel-
lar. AL were seriously injured Several
other hcaSes in course % building we're
demolished. A. Morecambe several
snaeks were sunk At Griusby a work
shop collapsed. burying thirty Iers2as.
one was killed and .hre. were seTiausly
injured. Telegraph wires. timber stacks.
trees. etc. were esown down in all direc-
tons. AT Buxton the new town bali was
gnrcofed and partly wrecked. Al Lis
burn fiye factory ehlmneys were over
thrown aad great damage was Goge. In
Belfast the damage done by he storm -
enormous 4 number OF factorcs and
houses were demolished. At Hollywood n
DowEsshire schooner VAS wrecked. At
Southport the hfehea.s were kept busy
rescung the crews OF two vessels. At
NewTy a brewery chimney Sas blown
down. and the local railway was 80 badly
damaged that trafiie Will have to be sus-
pended for several days. A chimney OF
the lnflvmary IN Blackburn was blown
down, crashing into the ehildrcn's ward.
Seven children were carried down with
tfte UepFlS- W Ete h9llGtfaltH ana 3ftmct
were trying 10 rescue the children the
lower fioor collapsed and all fell into the
cellar. one policeman aTE1 SIX children
were severely injured.
Word came from Liverpool this evening
that another vessel had fOansieret and
ilye of her crew had been drowned. 4
lifeboat going TO the rescue was hlcwn
adrift and wrecked. In the Nrrsey six
smacks were sunk. Four sailoss sre dying
in the hospitals Of broken heads, The
Mersev ferry was compelled 10 stop run
ming for several hours. a most unusual
occurrence 1t is estimated that the wind
blew eighty-seven miles an hour.
4 dispatch from Belfast says that Soy
eral vessels We're blown ashore in the
iough. The crews of some OF them havs
been rescued. Among the rescued are The
captain. his wife and fifteen of the crew
OF the British bark Noel. They chung 10
the rigging for several hours, exposed 10
a bitter northwcster. The vessel was
dashed 10 pieces. The noFtlTwest of Ire
land seems 10 have Jared worse than any
other part. Many casualties have been
reported there. The breaking OF the teie-
graph wires delays reports. II is believ-
ed that parts OF Scotland also suffered
badly Tho British bark IuRerwick, at
Fleetwood. broke from her mcoTings, dam
aged a crane and lost her foreroyal mast
A bark, supposed to be the Foru tNor-
wegian) and a steamer supposed to be
the Shulda, are ashore at Fleetwood.