The herald., 1897-11-30
Sweeps Along the English
Coast
A LONG LIST OF DISASTERS
INCLUDING sUNKEN SHIPS AND
DROWNED MEM
The Whole South Coast Fairly Strewn
With the Debris Of the
Wild Storm
Associated Press Special Wire.


LONDON, Nov. 2s.-The gale whicl
swept the English coasts yesterday
doing great damage at Holyhead an
other places, ragged all night and thi
morning amounted almost to q cyclon
in many places, accompanied by sno'
and hail.
A long list Of fatalities, wrecks an
damage to property has already been re
celved. All the coast towns have suf
fered and score of bodies have bee
washed ashore. Failing walls and hyin
debris have added to the loss OF lif'
Vessels are reported on shore on ever
part Of the coast and many ships ar
known to have foundercd with the proh
able loss of all hands. There Is muc
wreckage about the Goodwin Sands.
At Lowestoft, Yarmouth and else
whore. the sea has flooded the quays an
neighborhoods, washing away Ut
esplanades and doing other serioy
damage. The sea wall at Scarborou,..
was washed away and the passeR.
and mail service across the channel e. '
been mostly suspended. t.t.
The latest reports from various J,n,s
along the coast show that the sa.e
which swept English waters yettuay
and last night and which had no
its fury up to noon today was os'o. 'ne
worst storms of recent years. .AaN'
places It wns almost cyclonict ~ W.
ience and the long list Of dus.els NJ
cludes q large loss of life n'ty. Saors
OF large vessels and the 10 -. LII,
II not hundreds of smalle W."
serious damage to propes Ma..co,,,
many important towns. ~ ~
Bacton and Happisburg s 80 10
yet. unidentified, wsnr
crews of all perished.
Al number of bodies 'e 'ee"
ashore near YarmoWa ,a ors
,rr 1T 1,,rb,y as wrecked OH
10 ri, es, s.dard service made
-eso~.a .Jave the crew and
1oep. - Lex line on board.
A dying woman w -, ~,
~ 49, CHR company perishing.,
80, ocer dashed upon Flam-
. Soaa ) famous promontory
poivue -, ist, floated off and then
~ euo ~. III on board. A steamer
N1ounue I'D was wrecked on the
NY xds with her entire COM
p1ny; Ias.t eveps the steamer Rose Of
psvon. cain Davis. went on the
-or,r. reey-ed Ruth. Cornwall. where
80 o,,nd all night long, her crew OF
ss,,,o sn nShing. :. This morning the
49, 49, ahe captain and seamen, all
S,. s,e belts, were washed ashore.
7tish ship Larnica, Captain
was driven ashore near Fleet
'the entrance Of Moretown bay,
w.Ehteen miles northwest of Pres
le crew were saved, but the posi-
WI. the vessel is dangerous. She left
-. an, N. b., November for Fleet
Phenomenally high tides are re-
in many localities. The district
p1the mouth of the Thames has suf-
severely, several townships being
'lly submerged The Sherness dock
hand the Woolwich arsenal were In
Hated.
scarcely a vestige remains in sight Of
le wreck of Lord Nelson's old flagship
1e Foudroyant, long fast in the sands
e Blackpool. There is a great deal or
wreckage near the Goodwin sands.
Immense damage has been done to the
property at Sherness dock
YARD and the Woolwich arsenal Several
thousand troops were hurriedly ordered
out today to remove thousands OF
worth of ammunition and stores
from the wraves and sheds to places of
safety.
The tide continued to rise and invaded
some Of the work shops, quenched the
engines and stopped electric lights. The
workmen were obliged to go home, wad-
Ing knee deep.
Six vessels were wrecked between Yar-
mouth and Bacton. only few miles
apart, on the Norfolk coast. and twenty
ave lives lost.
The brig Vedra stranded at Bacton.
The storm tore out her masts, and when
The rocket line was fired the crew was
unable to haul it In. Finally the line
dragged them into the surf and three
but of seven were drowned. Rochester
and Strood, on the midway out thirty
miles south Of London. have suffered
severely. At Rochester the gas works
IRE flooded and the town Is in darkness.
The gale Is now travelling southwark
and straversing various parts Of the con-
kinent. Very rough weather is reported
along the north const Of France.
A dispatch from Liverpool says that
Turing the gale the Russian bark Niko-.
lat Captain Karlsen, stranded on
bank near Formboy. south
Of South Port. After fearful expert
ences her sails were blown away and the
= a. ~ ho
One of the crew. man named
Karlson, was swept overheard and
drowned. The captain says no one on
board slept for four days. The vessel
will probably become wreck.
LONDON, Nov. ga French steamer
has signalled to Dinsche, near Cardiff,
that she has rescued part Of the crew of
steamer that foundered in the Bristol
channel last Thursday, and that the
remainder Of the crew were lost.
The name of the foundered vessel has
not been ascertained, but 1t Is probable
It was the Labarrure of Cardiff, which
Ioundered OF Trevose head as the result
II =, collision with an unknown vessel.
ALL HANDS LOST
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Nov. 29.-Tid-
nGs OF the wreck and perhaps loss of the
entire crew of the British schooner J.
W. Geldert, which left Lunenberg. Nova
Scotia. for Boston, more than three
weeks ago. was brought here today by
The fishing schooner Edward Grover.
~ orsw q which sighted the Geldert,