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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1873, Page 2

Tremendous Storm in the North or Europe. — A German correspondent writes as follows of the great tempest on the North Sea and Baltic coasts, to which reference was made in former telegrams : — " We will attempt to give some idea of the terrible devastation occasioned 'by tbe high tide and fearful storm from the northwest on the. 13th. November. This tide, which reached its greatest height on the coast of Scbleswig at about 9 o'clock at night, was the greatest ever known in the Baltic, exceeding the great tide of 1864 by 16in. in height, and tbat of 1836 by 38in. The water rose about lift, above the main level of the sea on the shores of the Baltic, which are perfectly unsheltered. An inundation could not fail to take place, against which all human exertions and precautions were utterly powerless. In the small town of Apenrode alone, 90 houses have become uninhabitable, and nearly 280 families have not a roof over their heads. The news from Ekenforde is still worse. EDtire streets have been literally annihilated, while many of the buildings left standing are undermined. The exact number of dwellings totally destroyed in Ekenforde cannot yet be ascertained, but it will not fall short of 105. Hundreds of inhabitants have lost everything. The news from the district of Oldenberg is most saddening. On the island of Femarn the sea, broke through all the dykes, and, out of 42 villages, the fields and property of only 11 escaped the flood. The entire coast of Western Pomerania and the island of Rugen, with its projecting peninsulas, and the smaller islands lying around it, have also most severely suffered. The loog and narrow island of Hiddensoe, near Rugen, through which the sea once before forced its way, has beeD divided into two parts by a channel 17ft. deep. Two villages were completely inundated,, and had to be abandoned by their inhabitants numbering 57 families. Title "was also entirely covered by the sea, and its inhabitants, 70 families, had to be rescued from the garrets by boats. Provisions, winter stores of all kinds, and fuel have been washed away or spoiled, and the wells are useless on account of the salt water with which they are filled."