WILD WEATHER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 5

WILD WEATHER.

HOW THE WISTOW HALL WAS LOST. HEAVY SNOWFALL IN BRITAIN; Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, January 19. Wild weather still continues, and snow lias been falling in many districts for thirty hours. It is tho heaviest fall 1 for forty years. An Aberdeen steamer, with fourteen hands, foundered at Porfe Errol, mx miles and a half S.S.W. of Peterhead. The steamer Wistow Hall, which was wrecked during tho galo on the Buchan Rocks, near Peterhead, left Jarrow, in Durham, on Monday. Heavy seas destroyed the funnel, broke the "boats, and extinguished tho fires in tho engine-room. The vessel' drifted helplessly, and tho crew were without food and drink for three days. They wero unable to reach the forecastle, and were huddled in the engine-room until the steamer struck. The PoTt Errol lifeboat made gallant efforts to rescue the crew, who were dinging to the ropes, ventilators, and derricks. The breakers, however, rendered rescue impossible. The fishermen wtaded into' the boiling surf three deep and dragged ashoro Captain Stoddart and three Lascars. Captain Stoddart revived after hours of artificial respiration. Ho stated that he was confined to his cabin with a broken arm and internal injuries at the time of the vessel's foundering. Ho remembered nothing of events until ha found himself ashore. UNKNOWN VESSEL'S FATE. London, January 20. Tho Cunard Company's liner Veria 3229 tons, collided with and sunk an unknown steamer with all hands, near Swansea. '