DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE.
London, Nov. 21. The gale is now moderating in England, but is still raging on the Continent, where many deaths have occurred. At Royston a train was embedded in 20 feet of snow. The British steamer Aboukir Bay foundered in the Bay <.f Biscay and 12 persons were drowned. A four-masted steamer foundered with all hands off the Yorkshire coast and another off Land’s End. The P. and O. steamer Ballarat met with fearful weather on the voyage up the Channel. A' skylight was- smashed and stanchions carried away. A hundred and fifty-four wrecks are reported in England and if ranee. The steamer Tekoa met the full force of the gale and was hove to for three days in the Channel, but reached Plymouth safely. Nov. 22. The Dover lifeboat men, at the fifth attempt, succeeded in rescuing a fishing crew at Dungeness, who had clung to the rigging of their boat for fifty hours.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2586, 25 November 1893, Page 1
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157DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2586, 25 November 1893, Page 1
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