The herald., 1894-12-24
MANY VESSELS WRECKED.
Great Damage and Loss of
Life in Britain.
American Ships Feel the Fury
of a Storm.
Heavy Floods Cause Ruin In H0l-
land Towns.
Tho River EIbs IL Out of It's Banks and
Part Of Hamburg Is Inundated.
Fishing Boats Missing.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 23.-Reporta from vari-
ous parts of Great Britain show that the
gale is abating. The storm ragged with
the greatest fury oil day yesterday.
Telegraphic communication with Scot
land ia completely interrupted, while
the wires in the midland counties and
Ireland are mora or less damaged. There
is hardly town OF any size but
reports personal casuslties and damages
to property.
Manufacturing towns in the north
and west suffered badly. RooIa were
torn off and chimneys collapsed, crash
ing through adjoining buildings and
killing and injufing number of work.
ing people.
FIsHERMEN LOST.
A number of fishing boats are miss
ing. Three boats were swamped off
Stornway and % 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 and flooded.
The chips America and the Mary E.
Marshall went ashore near Greenock.
The Arklow was driven ashore in Scalp
sie bay, and has nine feet of water in her
hold. 1t is expected she will be \ total
loss. ALI along the coast vessels are re-
ported to be stranded. The ship Car
michael WAS wrecked off Hoyhead, and
five of her crew were drowned; six other
men on her were rescued with much
difficulty.
The four maatsd boat County OF Kin
ross, for Hartlepool, was seen off that
port lying on her beams ends and
apparently sinking. Her crew was eeen
on her with life belts on. The actual
number of deaths is unknown, but it is
expected the list will not bo lees than
100.
The American ship Kennebec, frem
Pork Blakely, which had discharged her
cargo at Belfast, broke .adrift and sank o
tug and damaged another vesael.
THE STORM IN HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM. Dec. 23.-Heavy foods
have been caused by the storm in Hol-
land. The rivers Mas and Rotte rose
IL feet. inundating 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 the
country in the viciuity Of the breaks
and is flooded. Nine houses collapsed.
At Utrecht several persons were
drowned by the capsizing OF q boat.
Telegraph and telephone wires every.
where were broken.
The bark Caroline, from Savannah
for Hamburg, went ashore near Egmon.
see and became a total wreck. Her
cargo is being washed upon the beach.
Part of her crew were drowned.
DAMAGE IN BELGIUM.
BRUssELs, Dsc. 23.-The storm has
caused much damage throughout Bel
GUM. Many of the Belgian fishing
boats are miasing.
The town OF Dandermonda at the con-
Auence of the Bender end S0heldt rivers
was inundated by the overlooking OF the
Bender. Tho inhabitsnte were aroused
by the tocsin and escaped, but the prop
erty loss is great.
The villages Of Audegelns. Dander-
vile. Mespelace. Appels and Baesrode
were also inundated.
THE ELBEs ovERFLows.
HAMBURG, Dec. 23.-The River EIbe
has overfown its banks and inundated
the lower parts of the town. The water
is so deep that tramway cars are unable
to run.