HEAVY STORMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 215, 4 September 1908, Page 2

HEAVY STORMS.

RAGING IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. MANY VESSELS WRECKED. London, September 2.' Heavy storms are raging in the EugliSh Channel. Many vessels have been wrecked. In most cases the crews and passengers have been rescued after exciting adventures. The excursion steamer Queen broks her steering gear and ran ashore on a sandbank at Selsey Hill, on the Sussex

const. High Sena W cro Sweennife over the docks. ° LifobcJts were served out to the passengers. About midnight a lifeboat put out from the shore and rescued the women, eight j n number, and three children. The. women and children wvre thrown from tihe steamer's deck into the arms of the lifeboat men. In the morning the lifeboat returned and rescued the male passengers. The sailing vessel Amazon, laden with coal, was wrecked in Swansea Bav. Twenty out of a crew of twcntv-eVl':' were drowned. ' " j The men made desperate efforts to | save themselves. Thousands wen' \ \ watching them from the shore, but it I was impossible to render any help. A YACHT CAPSIZED. j New York; September 2. I A yacht enpsized at Small Penobscot Bay, Maine. Six women and one man ' were drowned. I