Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-24
Lost in the Terrible Gale Which
Ragged in England.
IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
Vessels Reported in Distress all
Around the Coast, and Many
Wrecked and Sunk-Building
Destroyed in the Cities Great
Damage Done in Holland and
Belgium-The Storm General
One.

LONDON, December 23.-Reports re-
ceivsd from various parts Of Great Brit
ain show that the gale is abating. The
storm ragged with the greatest fury all
day yesterday. Telegraphic communi-
cation with Scotland is completely in
terrupted. while the wires to the
Midland counties and inland are more
or less damaged. There is hardly town
OF any size but reports personal casual
ties and damage to property. Manufac-
turing towns in the north and west
suffered badly. Roofs were torn off and
chimney stacks collapsed,
CRASHING THROUGH ADJOINING BUILD
INGS,
and killing and injuring number OF
working people. Ia many places the
residents were afraid TO venture In the
streets during the prevalence OF the
storm. A number of fishing boats are
missing. Three boats were swamped
of Stornoway and their 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 Oe suffering terribly, their cottages
being wrecked and flooded.
The ships America and Tamar r.
Marshall went ashore near Greenock.
The Arklow, for Ship Island, was driven
ashore 10 Scapie Bay, Butte, and has
nine feet of water in her hold. 1t is
expected that she will be total loss.
ALL AROUND THE COAST
vessels are reported to be stranded or
in the greatest danger.
The ship Karmichael was wrecked off
HOlyhead aud five of her crew were
drowned. The other six men aboard OF
her were rescued with much difficulty.
The four masted ship County OF Kin
rosa, for Hartlepool, was seen of that
port lying on her beam ends, and ap-
2arently sinking. Her crew gathered
in the stern with life-belts on.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The exact number OF deaths is un-
known, but it is expected that the list
will not be much less than one hun
dred.
The American ship Kennebeck from
Port Blakely, which had discharged
her cargo at Belfast, broke adrift and
sank tug aud damaged another vessel.
THE STORM IN HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, December % Heavy
floods have been caused by the storm in
Holland. The rivers, Mas and Rotter,
rose twelve feet, iDundating parts OF
Rotterdam. Boats were used In the
streets and in the market places,
which were like lakes. Many Of the
dykes 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 was flooded.
Nine houses collapsed, their tounda.
tious being undermined AT
Utrecht, several persons were drowned
by the capszing OF boat on the Mer-
wede. Telegraph and telephone wires
we're everywhere broken. The bark
Caroline, from Savannah for Hamburg,
went ashore near Egmond .Aau.Zee and
became total wreck. Her cargo is be-
ing washed upon the beach. Part OF
her crew were drowned.
Loss IN BELGIUM
BRUSSELS, December 23.-The storm
has caused much damage through
out Belgium, Many of the Belgian
fishing fleet are missing.
GREAT STORM IN BELGIUM.
BRUsSELs, December 23.-The town
of Dendermonda, at the confluence of
the Bender and Scheldt rivers, was in
un ated by the overaowing Of the Den
der. The inhabitants were aroused by
the tocsin and escaped, but the property