Gale in England.

Manawatu Herald, 5 March 1903, Page 2

Gale in England.

Incoming steamers.t report having encountered the worst hurricane for twenty years. The storm and consequent floods caused great damage in the North of Ireland and the west of Scotland, and some damage to English breakwaters.

The roof of the. residence, of the Rev. "Mr De Winton, Primitive Methodist minister at Hetton le Hole, was destroyed. Mr De Winton, who was asleep, was killed, and his wife was seriously injured. . Many buildings were unroofed at Dublin, where there were several fatalities.

The gale was especially fierce in Ireland. Dublin Castle was damaged, and a church was destroyed. Both at Cork and Holyhead several public buildings and factories were wrecked. Altogether eighty-two persons were injured. Telegraphic communication with the north of England is almost suspended. The Menai suspension brigde, between the island of Anglesey and the mainland, has buckled, and the centre portion has moved out of position. . , , On a viaduct at Ulverstone, in Furness, Lancashire, a train of ten carriages was blown over on its side across another set of metals. Thirty persons were injured. The collier Otterscap, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked off Finisterra, the north-western promontory of Spain. Seven dead have been recovered. It is feared thirty of the crew and passengers have perished. Other wrecks are reported. Elder, Dempster and Co.’s steamer Las Palmas, coal-laden from Newport to Boston, With a crew of thirtyeight, is hopelessly overdue. The heavy gales have caused wrecks on the British coast. The steamer Fingal, which is loading for Australia, dragged her anchors, and stranded at the North Wall. She is now submerged. The crew lauded safely. The gale destroyed the theatre at Gornal, near Dudley, Staffordshire. The storm occasioned great damage at Manchester and Liverpool. The gale has moderated, though the tale of losses is still incomplete.

Great damage was caused in the Isle of Mao., Houses and churches were wrecked. At Ail Saints’ Church, Peel town, a memorial window blown in, and the roof of the nave lifted, falling within the church. The Cunard liner Lucania was unable to land her passengers from America, numbering a hundred, at Queenstown, and carried them on to Liverpool. Fresh squalls are sweeping the western coast.

An unknown barque flying signals of distress struck on rooks on the north-west coast of Cornwall, Ten more bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the collier Otfcerscap, which was wrecked off Fin is terra, making a total of seventeen washed ashore.

A 'succession of hurricanes in the Atlantic, compelled many battered steamers to return to Queenstown. Many seamen were injured. The Cunard liner Etruria, while leaving New York, took the ground, but was refloated and returned to port. Her machinery was disabled. The barque Ladstock, which had started for Brisbane, suffered badly in the gale, and put into Queenstown.

ROUGH EXPERIENCES OP WARSHIPS. The battleship Resolution, which had a rough experience at , sea. steamed from Holyhead to Plymouth in the teeth of the gale with her rudder, weighing twelve tons, wrenched away and lost. The fact that the rudder had gone entirely was only discovered on reaching Plymouth, The vessel was for hours helpless in the trough of the sea. The battleship Collingwood has reached Plymouth leaking, with three hundred tons of water in the bold. TWENTY-THREE WRECKS REPORTED.

Twenty-five deaths resulted from the recent heavy gale. Thirty-three wrecks have been reported. The damage to churches, factories and farms amounts to hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Dominion liner Merion is ashore at Roche’s Point, at the entrance to Cork Harbour. Ninety passengers are on board. Germany, France and Holland have suftered severely from the galea. The storm damaged the telegraph linos in every district in England and Wales, w.ith the exception of a portion of the south-western counties. England and Glasgow "were connected with, only one-wire. ' The heavy swell at Cork harbour prevented the Marion being towed. She remains in a critical position. The passengers remain aboard. THE LOSS OF A BARQUE. A barque showing signals of distress was peen at 10 o’clock on Sunday night to strike the Prisons Rocks, off the coast of Cornwall. She apparently sank or broke up. It is believed that the barque was a German vessel from the fact that a portion of the word Pamburg" x

appeared on a lifebelt which was washed ashore. Pieces of cases and casks also came ashore addressed to New Zealand.

It is undoubted that the crew perished. A lifeboat and the coastguard searched the coast for ..hours.

The steamer Pas dMfh.'lais, while cjriftipg. about in ihe storm, had her paddle ‘disabled, and narrowly escaped going on to the Goodwin Sands, The damage was repaired, and the vessel reached Dover.