New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-24
SCORES OF LIVES LOST.
DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY THE GREAT
GALE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
MANY VESSELS WRECKED OR sTRANDED-HEAvY
LOSS FROM THE STORM IN BELGIUM. HoI.-
LAND. FRANCE. AND GERMANY.


London Dec. 2a.-Reports of death and damage
to property in the great storm are being received
constantly this evening. Three fishing smacks
went down last night off Stornaway on the
Scotch coast ard all three crews. numbering
twenty-five, We're drowned. The British bark,
Kirkmichael. which was driven on the breakwa ter
at Holyhead yesterday has filled. Twelve Of her
crew were saved with the breeches buoy and
were drowned. Many cotters on the Done
gal coast have lost their huts in the storm. At
Teeln house collapsed and the three occupants
We're killed. In Stranorar two persons were
killed by falling chimney
Several vessels went adrift in Aberdeen Harbor
and grounded. The roof Of the Macdonald Arr
Gallery was ripped open and many valuable
pictures were injured. The brig LoVen was
wrecked in the Firth of Clyde near Androssan,
and her crew Of five were drowned At Loeb
winnoch. near Paisley. part Of three-story cabi-
net factory was wrecked. Forty persons were
buried in the ruins. Four were killed outright
and twenty injured seriously. The proprietor was
struck in the back by falling timber. ana IS
dying Only five persons escaped without INJURY.
The coast steamship Brook stranded last night
near Berwick Scotland. and her crew were
brought ashore with the breeches buoy. Ihc
gables were blown off a dozen houses in Var
mouth. and the tide in the River fare rose sev-
eral feet above the normal high-water mark
Hundreds of houses have been Hooded
Scores of small steamers and sailing vessels are
aground along the coast The majority OF mem
tu. ~
injury from falling timbers. trees anu chlil,
neys have been reported this afternoon from ali
parts OF the United Kingdom.
The German bark Caroline Captain 'rerues'
from Savannah November IA for HAMBURG Is
ashore at Egmond-aan-Zee She Is total wreck
and her cargo Is being washed ashore some Oh
her crew reached land. and others were drowned.
The British bark Tamar +. Marshall captain
V-tlev and the Norwegian ship America captain
at Greenocl. The Norwegian bark Aoana' cap
tain Danielsen. IL ashore at Cleveleys.
Dispatches from the Continent say tha' Norm
ern France and Germany also SUFFERED seVereIy
from the storm although the loss OF III" anu
nronertv cannot vet be estimated. Al Hamburg
many vessels went adrift and were in Colllsl"n OF
grounded The tide the highest seen since
1852 The lower parts Of WilhelmshaNen. on 'ne
North Sea were flooded and the dikes wouiu
have gone II the garrison had not worKea M
getically for hours To strengthen them L"Oe'N
and Coiberg also suffered much damage.
Paris Dec 23.-The storm which mas swept
Northwestern Europe has done great damage
in ReIgum The Dendre overfowed Its banks AT
Termonde and the inhabitants were arousea 2" " a'
midnight by ringing bells 10 flee Tor thef nv.
in Rotterdam the water rose twelve iee' apoNr 'c ~
usual high-water mark. The streets We're u'iu'i
two or three feet of water and the inna ,dii'H al
paddled around on RATS and In boats Inc uih,
of the Meuse and Yssel were strained seN,ir.s
along their lower courses. At one place iaree
hreak let out a food which covered a wide area
and did enormous damage throughout 'ne
Netherlands and Belgium many persons VIZ
injured and few were killed by falling Chlm-
news and timbers. The pilot cutter la'i'ahcul
cansized off Dunkrk and three OF the ere"
were drowned