Fearful Hurricanes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 122, 21 November 1893, Page 2

Fearful Hurricanes

• GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. [Per Press Association] London, November 19. Further particulars of the heavy weather iust experienced show that a fearful hurricane swept the east and west coasts. Thirteen wrecks are reported, the list including several large steamers. In the majority of the cases the men were drowned. The railway lines running along the coasts have been undermined, and trains on high lands were derailed. In several towns factory stacks collapsed, killing many of the workers. In Scarborough and Sunderland streets of houses have been wrecked, The gale has been unequalled in violence during the last fourteen years. November 20. It is estimated that 200 people have been drowned in the gales along the coast, including the crew of an unknown ship which came to grief on the Goodwin Sands, a large steamer at Penzance, ' another at St. Ives, a sailing ship at 1 Molinhead, and a steamer at Moray Firth. In addition to the wreck of 24 coasters, chiefly on the east coast of England, several wrecks are reported from the 1 northern coast of France. The storm was accompanied by a heavy fall of snow, and in Essex the snow drifts were six feet deep. The severity of weather disorganised ml way traffic, and completely stopped the Channel steamer trnflic. Eight Hastings fishing boats were wrecked. The storm was also felt on the French coast, where several vessels were wrecked, resulting in the loss of upwards of one hundred lives.