DISASTROUS GALES i1 ND HURRI;CAW!..i -:

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1449, 24 March 1873, Page 3

DISASTROUS GALES AND HURRICANE.

From the Bi^t^^Wtff we have a terrible list durWg^h^'iFiii^iot'a recent gale. In the Chann6l the gale "Watery severely felt. iTh'e'AteA^Garißflat •«t iPavershinf, Wilaqn, naaster, lq^ther canvas off Besbhy Head, aM jh^; p ßaffl*J,^WimeVeux, near Botitogtief' Thfe mastfet and boy were drowned^ th(B ( .mei]i yj^'s'a'fed, :i The ship SaJsund,' 35Q tpnk', bpu^d From Hamburg for New v YorkJw ( ith,..a general cargo, ,w<is wrecked on Kimnieridge Le^ge, and . has since become a .total wreck; crew, all saved. A timber-loden barque named the Tinto, 1400 tpnß burden, from Quebec to Cardiff, -ran.a shore on the coast of North Devony and' immediatiely. went to pieces. Sho had-6tfb6flfc<a'twt>ht^-f<> l nij.meh; eleven of whoift' 'she' had taken from another vessel rin . mid-Atlaritic I.',1 .', Eight of the twQnty-f6u^ Wss ( difowne l d. "(jtreat damage hagi be,en don.6 in j-he Merpey by the hurricane., T)h,fl (*retf "Britain dragged, her anohoria j and drifted against the Pier-head, knocking in all heir fltert, so that ' the isea made a clear breacn into the cabin. Daring Uie hurricane signals of distress : were observed in Fresh watfer'Bay,: about three miles fr6m the Lifebbat feo6|ety's. Station at Brooke, Isle of Wi^hfc' The Ufebbatrwas got out, but ; befofia fetie get. near the spot the : vo&ef 'jaajl 'crew] had'iSee'ri lost. Th^ weath,er yraa Jwr^xfic at the tinio. During the gale .tlie }?enai;th lifeboat was called out by Bignala of distress shown from the Eleanor, ot Quebec, which had gone on Cardiff Sands. ; After remaining along* Bide in the heavy i>ea<. two hdur^, all the vessel's 'cr^v/^with the exception<of the mate-^fth who refuied i 'toleaV6 —were taken, off, and the boat wa^'f owed int6 , r Piit«rffl!^ m> TOrhifir^/Hartlana. Fou^;/hdtijk M^ter^tfc(s:' r m $4s: \os again t '^n'poM,pa,o^y_^»^ and auocee^ea iix ceUing tlio vessel off .the sand. The :^a)te§eia If (ebo'at was enabled to sa.v.eiwiß,cjrpM: iof t^p.men fyoni tbe diß>* abled bajequo Jarie; of and from Rochester* in ballast for Galaisi Jlh& Loweatof t lifO'boat was'blßO'launcHed to awrect on the

Coi-ton Santls, but before, ehe could got thcro the crow managed to roach a schoonor in the roads. The Norwegian barkLcborna with a cargo of railway iron, when trying to get to Lowestoft from sea, grounded on the Nowcombe Sand, and almost immediately filled. The crew, who had scarcely time to get to their boats, were taken to the Sailors' Home. Reports of damage occasioned by the gale continue to arrive from different parts of England and Wales. At Neath a church has been partially unroofed. At Mountain Ash three chapels have been nearly destroyed. The west window of St. John's Church, Cardiff, has been partly blown away, and Raper's Temperanco Hotel is almost completely unroofed. In the suburbs of Cardiff large trees have been torn up. The damage on land is light in comparison to that among the shipping. The barque Gracia, of Quebec, commanded by Captain Alfred Johnson, foundered in the Cardiff roads, and, with the exception of one sailor, all the crow wore drowned. The collisions were innumerable, and many of the vessels are so much disabled that their departure will bo dolayod for some time. Great anxiety i 3 felt at Portsmouth and Southampton in reference to the trading steamer of the London and South- Western Company, which left Honfleur at the commencement of the gale, and has not since been heard of. She had no passengers, but her crew numbered 20 hands. Accounts of disasters arising from the rains continue to arrive from various parts of the country. A snovatorm which has raged in the north of England has caused serious damage to the telegraph wires, and all communication ribrfch of Liverpool, Leeds, and Hull was interrupted. In "Worcestershire the Severn: lias again overflowed its banks, flooding the lowlying lands, and doing/ considerable damage to property. Mr Essex, Leigh Sinton, Worcestershire, lost a valuable flock of sheep by the floods, and a pupil of his was drowned, while a bailifl was rescued by a sheep dog, .whilst endeavoring to recover the sheep. In Leicestershire miles of the country ate under water, the flood being the greatest for some time past? Nearly "n-foot of snow has fallen in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, and all the rivers are much swollen. The streets of Leods were almost impassable owing to the heavy fall of snow arfd sleet. A telegram from Kidderminster on Dec. 16 says :—" During the last twentyfour hours the river Stour has been rising rapidly, and this evening it is higher than it has been for twenty years. ' The water is the same height on both sides. The flood-gates and the low-lying parts of the town are under water. Mill street, one of the principal thoroughfares, is impassable, and pedestrians have to make a long circuit. The water s is : still risincf. ! The occupants of the Parkgate Inn have had to lock up th(jir house, and were taken in by their neighbors, and .other families livingnear are also obliged . temporarily- to abandon their homes. Part of the high wall to Mr Lea's mill has been waahad down. The new sewerage works, have been damaged, aud some of the sewers have burst from, the force of the water. The flood has caused great excitement in the town." A telegram l from Hartlepool says;— "A violent gate hab been raging he-ro from S.E., exceeding iri fury any for years past. It has been Accompanied by deluging rain. There is' great interruption of telegraphic and railway communication." ; A telegram from South Shield states that a, heavy gale raged, from, east-south-cast, and continued to blow with fearful -violence, . whije, a, very heavy sea was running. The barque Council, of South Shields, was wrecked while endeavoring to enter the Tyne r during the galo, by running against Tynemouth pier. The life brigade at onetfgofc theiapparatUs to work, but when the line was thrown across the v.es^o] . tlio, a.hip,waß in pieces ; three men were saved oh'ly out of ten. Captain Thompson, South 'Shields, was killed by a portion of the pier, scaffolding falling. Mate Fryer, South Shields, was washed off the yardarm and drowned. Smith, aseaman, washod ashore on a portion of the wreck, was so injured that he died. Another fall of chalk has taken place en the South-Eaßtern ; Railfway,. between Shakespeare and Abbot's CliftJ at Dover Tunnel, but no injury to life or' property was occasioned. The guns at the drop redoubt have been nnlimbered for fear of further landslips. The state of the cliff, near the tunnel betweoh 1 the' Harbor aj^d Priory Stations of the London, .ChatJwr and Dover Railway is in a^ritiqal' sJ*V-' About twelve feet inside the tuiweliho brickwork has cracked, and Wioklayors and carpenters are busily engaged in repairing the damage Aop** The Mayor has issued an appe-aA V-the inhabitants of Dover generally tp.uaiße a subscription tcreward thos^ men who worked so mer geticaltya* the scene of the acciaeat — We, learn from Broadstairs, Qjat the Steamer Tor<ntcy ot Shields, b«md from the Black Sea v/ith a cargo of. barlsy,, wagwrecked on the/ Good wia %nds. TJie crew of twenty-ono meu and- the pilot were all rescuea by the Kjngsdowne and WalmerhfeboatsbelongmortotheNatibnal Lifeboat Institution, trh,e shipwrecked men haying been fended* in safety at Broadstairs. Owing to the heavy and almost incessant rainfalls of the past few days the Severn, Yyrnwy, and other rivers, m Montgomeryshire have risen, to aa alarming height. Largo tracts. !o £r «o an i* y i n the neighbourhood of Welshpool, Montgomery, and Llanidloes were submerged' and it is feared the farmers wilf be heavysufterers. Heavyraihhaßsincefallen.' Floods prevail both to north and south of: Banbury The Great Western station completely flooded, the lioe bein* a fa>b under water. The trains are scat^a.bla to pass. Great damage has been doaa torising. Tho Other night, si« ilA i ; gun » were fn-Qcl from a vessel Ay&h, went ashoro on the north side q^. Tynemouth lier. Lrfeboats weret l^jowhed, bnfc w)iild fine no trace of, hob. She waa a brig from the southard and went to pieces in three inmates,, while ; six of the crew were drowned ;• bvit.twj ro^n and a ooy, who clung t» ohe^f'the masts, were Bayed by several- men jjimpihg into the; \ sea for them. 2ft e Italic brig Minerva,