Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09
FURY UNDATED.
The Gale Still Raging Over
the United Kingdom.
The Worst Storm For Years-.Creat
Extent Of Land Inundated.
Heavy Damage to Property and Loss 10 Ship
ping will Be Large.

London, Oct. S.-The gale continues
| with undated fury in the Irish chan
| mel and many other points along the
Irish and Welsh coasts. its force being
| felt with serious results at Dublin and
| Wicklow. The Kingstown life boat has
gone to the assistance of five men who
purchased and We're dismantling the
Russian bark Paine, stranded and lost
| in Dublin bay in December 1895.
| The gale was felt very severely at
| Belfast many vessels having taken
refuge in Belfast Tough. Several per-
sons have been admitted to the Belfast
hospitals suffering from the effects of
injuries received in the streets from
| flying fragments of buildings, limbs of
trees, etc, which the gale carried
| through the streets with great vio-
| lence.
| Many houses in the lower portion of
| Bristol We're inundated by the water
from the harbor. which has overlooked
| the docks. A steamer was towing q
schooner at Holyhead when the haw-
ser parted and the schooner was car
ried away and lost. She had five men
on board, all of whom were drowned.
At Tenby. Wales. 200 feet of the pier
and large portion of the landing
stage was carried away by the force
of the wind and water. A life boat
was launched at 2, this morning, for
the purpose of putting out to the res
cue of a vessel in Carmarthen bay The
boat with it's crew disappeared in the
darkness. and up to noon, today, had
not returned nor had any tidings of il
been received
The town of Llandudno. Wales, is
flooded for quarter of a mile above
high water mark. The crew of the
British coasting schooner Lady Agnes
was rescued by means of a line from
the life savers on shore. as it was i'm
possible for the men to launch life
boat.
The gale has been severely felt in the
clyde. The river boats on the Firth
OF Clyde We're often unable. today. to
get to their piers, owing to the high
wind and heavy sea. Two sail boats
were sunk al Dunoon, today.
AT kingstown, the British ship Mary
l.. Burrell, bound from that port for
New York. broke from her mornings
and was stranded on the rocks She
was towed off, leaking badly. Her
BOWS and headgear were damaged by
collision with a pier she will prob
ably have to be locked.
=, Inc heavy southwest gale prevented
me steamer Germanic. New York for
Liverpool from communicating with
Queenstown. last evening, and She prn
Geeded for Liverpool: The storm in the
irish channel. last night and this morn
ing, was terrific. A large ship and a
steamer were compelled to take refuge
from the gale at Holyhead. Heavy floods
are reported in the southern part of
wares. me government post guard
puiidhngs at SYNDICATE were badly dam
aged by the storm.
Later details show that the storm has
oeen the heaviest known in Great Britain
ana ireland in years. On the west coast
me gales were accompanied by excessive
.iaes. Inc town of Landelly. Wales. is
entirely insulated by water which com
pieteiy surrounds it. making it impossible
FOR the inhabitants to leave Hundreds
OF houses and number of churches are
hooded; Three persons We're drowned at
i,landeily by the rising waters Part of
.ne landing stage at Liverpool is inn
passable. and the ferry to Cheshire has
stopped running owing to inability to land
passengers.
Daunt's rock lightship at the entrance
10 queenstown harbor was missing, this
morning. having been carried away from
lts moorings The lightship had on board
crew OF eight men. Vessels were sent
out thls morning. to search for her but
up 10 the present time no trace of bor
has been discovered.
The gale along the WEIGH coast was of
unprecedented severity. and the damage
of the Point Cawle esplanade was swept
away. and the country is flooded for :,
mile inland. The lower part of the fown
of Portmadoc is flooded.