Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-31
STORMS FEARFUL WORK,
Heavy Loss o. life o. the Irish
ocash
ALI ON BOARD TIL ossbO raRpH,
Graphic Accom-. Of the Las Of VI
vesssl,
The weather Has nccn severe "a
Many Parts OF The wes,s-rhs
Florida orange Crop AimoAs casa.
pie,eis Destroyed.


LONDON. Dec. so--severc weather has
prevailed throughout Great britain
since saturday, Tie heavy sale aciua
Accompanies by hail ana SNOW, renders
ing nayiga,lon along the coast both
dinleuit ana dangerous, An vessels
that could DO 80 made Tor hayens OF
shelter. some OF them, however, did
not succeed in reaching port. but were
wrecked when almost m sight Of safety,
This was the case OF the british bark
osaec. Capt Bcggs, which sailed from
raiai August 10 Tor Andiossan, she
made the long voyage IN aafe,y until
this morning, when shp was wrecked IN
the Holy Head brealswotcr and every
soul on board OF her, twonty-rour in
all. are drowned.
The osseo was caught IN the gale IN
the Irish sea and Capt Boggs thought
that he would run into Holy lioad AMI
wait Tor the storm TO abato. shortly
before half past three O'clock this morn,
lng the keeper or the lighthouse al
the seward end OF the long breakwater
saw a bark como out OF the gloom Win
her lights burning brightly and under
close storm oanyass, The wind was
blowing a gale and q terrific sea WAS
running before Il The bark, however
was making as good weather Of It ea
was possible. and was apparently be.
Ing handled In a most careful man.
ncr.
How thu accident occurred Ia not
exactly Known, bu. it is surtniaed inat
an extraordinary figh sea lifted her
when she was quito clos 10 tllc break
water ana dashed her uhon n, she
struck close amidshlps ana immedlates
" began 10 break up Tho seas puund-
Ing at her fuuouAly the moment aha
became stationary,
Tie lighthouse keeper, M soon az he
Nallxcd what had occurred and the
wreck occurred 80 quickly that Anme
little time elapsed before he did rcai-
ize that tho bark was wrecked, iired
a rocket TO call tho coast guardnmrn
aud lie boatmen.
In the inoaNilme, tho bark had broken
IN two halves. the mainmasy sling
by the board. In itn fall 1t airl5is SOW
killing them inrtantiy.
Others Of the crew had climbed into
tho fore and mizzaH riEE.hg 10 es-
cape bring washed uvprbohfu BY tic
huge o0mbcfr that We're making q clean
breast over the wreck The vorst
suardamon were the FIRST 70 reach the
scene OF the disaster and were followed
soon after by the lifebOat. Above the
bowling gale could be heard tho cries
~ g 40 Is. = a.
The coast guardfmen got o line aboard
the wreck and II was clught by one
OF the crew. Before he could make Il
fast, the fore md mlzzen maats were
whipped on close 10 The dock and
everybody Ia the rlginnF foil with them
Into the sea and drowned. The sailor
who had caught the line WAS then
crushed 20 death under one or the falling
masis After the 1nasta had gone by
the board all was silence on board and
those on the beach knew that all on
board had pcrlshe1 IN short timo
nothing was Wis bic seward but broken
spars and a lot OF riHsing attached 70
them, During the day nlno were re-
covered. The identity OF the bark wna
learned from some Of her frapB that
We're washed ashore. Tho DsHcO was
commanded by Captain Il. Boggs She
was a steel vessel Of 1869 tons and was
built In 1883 NJ Londonderry from
which place she sailed.
Her dimensions were, length, ai5 feet
. irchez; beam, 70 feet inches, aud
depth OF hold, a feet 2 inchoa. Her
owner II, II. Mrcorkle.
The Norwegian ship Frey, Captain
Hansen from Darlen. whiLa riding az
anchor on TrOonf WA diAmnatcd, her
crew were taken OF In a lifc boat. The
boat cnpel1ed and one man was drown
al No.. 81. =
safeiy. The Frey has since dragged
her anchors and gone ashore at Devils
Dyke. four miles from Ayr
The British bark Bonita, Captain
Thomas, from Galveston. was run Into
on Falmouth this morning and dam
aged BY tho achoonor Carrie Mnfveln.
a dispatch from Londonderry says
that nothing has been heard or tho
Mississippi and Dominlan Line steam
or safnia which Lost her rudder NJ sea
and which, after being taken IN tnw
by the Anchor Line steamer AnchOrla,
was dropped about $50 miles west of
Terry island owing 10 a hefyy water.
which made towing dangerous. The
Anchor Line steamer BurnesslA. from
Glasgow Tor New York. which sailed
from Mobile this morning has orders
10 keep a sharp lookout for the steam
err
rugs lying in Tough Foyic in readi-
meas 10 proceed In search OF her as
soon az The weather permits. Owing
to the gale IN the English channel the
ostend mail steamers were unable to
leave Dover today. A e0aHtlng echoon-
or war diamnsied on crnmer. four iife
boats started out to rezcue her crew.
The vessel had awunG on into TIN
rough Of the re8, where she rolled her
rails under water. This made II ex-
tnemely DANGEROUS for The ifehoafs 10
approach her and twelve hours elapsed
before tho crew were saiten on ara
landed. The storm Inland has ! -
e6ma damh1e TrninB have been
bio-ked BY heavy snow drlfla and In
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