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Show FEARFUL STORM RAGES IN GREAT BRITAIN. Cities in England and Ireland Inundated Inun-dated by Widespread Floods. London, Nov. 12. Violent wind, rain and snowstorms are reported from all the coasts of the United Kingdom. A fierce gale is blowing in the channel and mountainous seas are running. No less than half a dozen vessels within sight of Dover are flying signals of distress, dis-tress, and the life boats are vainly attempting at-tempting to reach them. A rocket apparatus ap-paratus has been sent to the South Foreland, where an admiralty vessel is on the rocks, with the crew clinging to the rigging. Several vessels have been dismantled and tugs are rescuing craft which were driven ashore. At. other channel ports there were similar scenes. Ships everywhere are running for shelter. The steamer Cato collided with the British lock Venna-char, Venna-char, Captain Bennett, which left Melbourne Mel-bourne Aug. 16 for London, at the mouth of the Thames. The latter foundered, but the crew were saved. Wild weather prevails over the lake district. The first snow is falling on the Westmoreland hills. A number of coast towns have suffered suf-fered damage to their seawalls and houses, and several rivers have broken their banks and seriously damaged the low parts of inland towns. Traffic Traf-fic in some of the streets of Blackburn has been . stopped. There are several feet of water in many of the low districts. dis-tricts. Belfast., in flooded and elsewhere else-where mills and schools are closed on account of the floods. The seas are so high off the Tyne that shipping movements have been stopped. Even river traffic is partially suspended. Hundreds of shipyard men are idle on account of the abnormal rains. There have been a number of wrecks on the Sunderland coast. The mail boat Nord, which started from Dover for Calais at half-pat 11 o'clock last night, ran down the lightship light-ship off the new works of Dover pier. The crew of the lightship was drowned. It is rumored in Dover that sixteen persons went down with the lightship. The Nord has gone ashore at the foreland, fore-land, but her passengers are said to be safe. Several of the suburbs of Dublin are flooded and elsewhere in Ireland great damage has been done by floods. Several Sev-eral fatal accidents have occurred and railway communication is delayed. In some parts of the country the rain has continued for thirty-six hours. In the Manchester district, although there has been much damage, the floods have been rather welcome than otherwise, other-wise, as the mills had long suffered from the unusual drouth. The gale is still raging unabated tonight along the coast. Reports continuously arrive of shipping casualties, especially on the Cumberland coast, where the storm is extremely violent. Three vessels were driven ashore tonight to-night at the entrance of the Tyne. Four small vessels have been wrecked in the vicinity of Sunderland, and another has been wrecked off Hartlepool. Altogether Alto-gether nine persons were drowned in these disasters. The light house on the Sunderland pier has been washed away. The gale in the Irish channel is the severest known for many years. Five vessels have been wrecked in Kingston harbor, which is strewn with wreckage. |