Show THE fw 07 THE GILL 11 I 1 I 1 storm in the english channel comes luth Da daulta usta aug 20 last nighta night a steam belonging to a british war vewel at portsmouth waa was aw swamped a m ped in the gae and four our seamen I 1 dro drowned w ned the gile on the shore swept down the telegraph and telephone wires free and polea poles uprooted trees and boines dispatches from various parts of the conat coast announce numerous wrecks wreck the reports from all parta parts of at ireland andl cate that crops were badly damaged by the gales it now transpires that four seamen supposed to have been drowned by the he capsizing of le tle were rescue rescued by a boat from another war vessel it ia Is feared there has been much more damase damage done than BO so far is re reported or led and there may have been coned erable loss ut of life olf off the coast telegraph wires are down in many sections where wrecks are likely to occur and no definite information his ba been received large numbers of yachts in the clyde are fire known to bare have been driven ashore rii aug 28 26 this morn ing the british officers and their ladies who were compelled to stay all eight night on board the steamers of the french squadron Equa dron by the storm returned to 0 the shore as an the wind had aa abated the ladies described the night they passed on board the french war ships as terrible in the extreme the french fleet weighed anchor this morning and sailed away tho the british vessels saluted |