| Show STORMS IN ENGLAND LONDON oct 14 the gale has sub sided aided tonight owing to the damaged condition of the telegraph lines it is Impossible to obtain full details of the storms ravages it is thought the be losses lossee of life and property are combar corn par actively small when the vast extent of the storm Is 19 considered reports continue to be received of the valleys of the trent the wye and the avon many farms in monmouth shire have been devastate dand low loss the of crops and cattle is considerable at cardiff the great breakwater was partly dis destroyed troyed and in addition to those reported many coasters have gone ashore the ostend steamer which usually makes ther the trip to dover in three or four hours was out eleven hours under full steam and then was compelled to put back without making th trip all communication with the continent haq bag been retarded to an extent never equalled equal led A coal laden steamer grounded off Holy hollywood holywood Ho lywood woods where beyond reach of aid I 1 the cargo took fire burning the vessel to the waters edge the gale also traversed franco france but in a much milder form trees and chimneys were more or less damaged in paris the rhine and other rivers particularly in south france overflowed THEIR BANKS doing considerable damage to crops and houses chiefly in the neighborhood of lyons A telegram from folkestone Folk estone says save a steamer was sighted off that port in distress but the local life crew was unable to reach her owing to the heavy sea and it is feared that the steamer will become a total wreck dispatches from dover and kent say that the hurricane was worse than the blizzard of Marek last the ostend boat was unable to approach near the shelter of the pier of dover and was driven out to sea again since which time she has bag not dot been heard of but it is thought she reached some place of shelter elsewhere along the coast and the telegraph wires being down she has been unable to make her whereabouts known of recent years by the expenditure of immense sums same of money dover has been made a harbor of refuge J long powers powerfully u ily built jetties betties have been thrown out seaward and a huge gran ite pier called admiralty pier one third of a mile long having been bee n built at the commencement of the storm the pier and fettles were continually washed by the waves and the new pounding DOUD ding the pier received has been so 0 o severe that a great amount of damage has been done HUGE GRANITE BLOCKS of several tons weight being washed out of place in spite of the ironwork iron work and cement which held them and little more than the bare foundation to is remaining the I 1 he oldest veteran seamen admit that they do not remember having seen worse weather and heavier seas off the english coast great danger it ft experienced by pedestrians on the streets of doer owing to falling failing tiles slates and bricks from the chimneys which had been toppled over by the howling wind a number of more or less serious accidents have been reported in one street it has been reported by the police that a stack of brick chimneys was war hurled buried down with such force that it smashed inthe roof upon which it fell and buried in the ruins ruine the inmates of the house a number of women and children who were badly injured by the crashing rafters and tiles at sunderland Bun derland the hurricane unroofed a factory the tall chimney of which fell upon the house and seriously injured four persons this afternoon alie th e gale in the chan nell nel la siner increasing east ng an and d all steamers site altet ia s forced to make some harbor additional REPORTS FROM say that the storm undoubtedly I 1 is the most severe bida the terrible tay bridge disaster J the ship arran urania ia 11 broke from her and aad crashed into the italian barkentine coromina Go romina the latter lattera latt erB forem ast snapped and the vessel was wa completely dismasted distasted dis masted both vese vessels then drifted down stream the crew brewr bel being utterly powerless to control them fi finally ia ly the urania Urani aP crashed into alm 4 sheds df the anchor line steamon steal company and this enabled her to i captured and made fast two coss coi vessels have foundered in loch a branch of the pirth firth of clyde aad ai aled id of the crew have been drowned ship helen brewer cap capsized elied i glasgow and over a dozen ysab number of coasting vessels and t mi lighters are ashore in the clyde clyd e f of the standard lighters have aar sunk and several others are almost almo tain total wrecks the steamship t A chorla 1 of grog the anchor line ghouri rou ed at freenoch Gre enoch owing to the 10 force the hurricane all inco incoming ming steams team report having encountered fearful weather telegrams from the northwestern railroad state tw a theatre there has been blown down the large audience had barely leamo left fhe building when a powerful blast swept it down and reduced it to a shapeless Rb apele pile of lumber and bricks had tha file building fallen a moment sooner ft a number of people would have been beba bur ed in the ruins the st james ewette this says not within recent memory haa haab such a terrible storm raged in england and a terrible catalogue of dis disasters ast er ss ta sea is to be expected great da damage m I 1 has been done I 1 in ah many parts parl s of the i country 12 |
