The morning call., 1894-12-24
STORM AND FLOOD.
Loss of Life in Great
Britain.
DISASTERS AMONG SHIPPING.
Vessels Driven Ashore and Many
Sailors Perish.
AMONG SHIPPING.
FOUNDATIONS OVER IN HOLLAND.
The Bark Caroline of Savannah
Wrecked and the Cargo Cast
Upon the Beach.

LONDON, Dec. 23.-Reports from various
parts of Great Britain show that the gale
is abating The storm ragged with the
greatest fury all day yesterday. Tele-
graphic communication with Scotland is
completely interrupted, while the wires in
the midland countie and Ireland are
more or less damaged.
There is hardly town of any size but
reports personal casualties and damage to
property. Manufacturing towns in the
north and west suffered badly. Roofs
were torn off and chiGneys collapsed,
crashing through adjoining buildings and
killing a number Of working people.
A number of fshing-boats are missing.
Three boats were swamped off Stornway
and twenty-five occupants drowned.
Much damage was done to houses in
Dublin and the suburbs of that city.
People in the Donegal hills are reported
to be suffering terribly, their cottages being
wrecked aud flooded.
The ships America and the Mary E.
Marshall went ashore near Greenock.
The Arkalow was driven ashore in Scalp
sic Bay and has nine feet of water in her
hold. 1t is expected she will be a total
loss. All around the coast vessels are re-
The ship Carmichael was wrecked off
HOlyhead and five of her crew were
drowned. The other six men on her were
rescued with much difficulty.
The four-masted ship County of Kin
ross, for Hartlepool, was seen off that
port lying on her beam ends and appar-
emily sinking. Her crew was seen on her
with lifebelts on. The actual number of
deaths is unknown, bnt it is expected the
list will not be much less than 100. The
American ship Kennebec, from Port
Blakeley, which had discharged her cargo
at Belfast, broke adrift and sank a tug
and damaged another vessel.
AMSTERDAM. Dec. % Heavy floods
have been caused by the storm in Holland.
The rivers Mas and Rotte rose twelve
feet. inundating parts of Rotterdam.
Boats were used in the streets and in the
market-places, which were like lakes.
Many Of the dikes threatened to give way
under the heavy pounding of the sea. In
several places the water succeeded in
breaking through, and the country in the
vicinity of the breaks is flooded. Nine
houses collapsed, their foundations being
undermined.
At Utrecht several persons were drowned
by the capsiZing OF boat. Telegraph and
telephone wires were everywhere broken.
The bark Caroline, from Savannah for
Hamburg. went ashore near Egmondsee
aud became a total wreck. Her cargo is
being washed upon the beach. Part of
her crew was drowned.
HAMBURG, Dec. 23-The river Elbe has
overf1owed Its banks and inundated the
lower parts of the town. The water is so
deep that trancars are unable to run.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 23.-The storm has
caused much damage throughout Belgium.
Many OF the Belgian fishing-boats are
missing
The town of Dendermonda, at the con-
fiuenee of the Bender and Schedt rivers,
was inundated by the OVERLOOKING of the
Bender. The Inhabitants were aroused by
the tocsin and escaped, but the property
loss is great. The villages Of Audegeme,
Dendervile. Mespelace, Appels and Baes-
rode were also inundated.