A TERRIFIC HURRICANE.
RAGING ON THE CONTINENT.
MANY DEATHS REPORTED.
THREE STEAMERS
FOUNDERED
HUNDREDS OF VESSELS WRECKED.
I London, November 21. The gale is now moderating in Eogland, but is still raging on the Continent, where many deaths have occurred. At Royston a train was embedded in twenty feet of snow. The British steamer Aboukis Bay foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and twelve persons were drowned. A four-masted steamer foundered with all hands oft the Yorkshire coast, and another steamer foundered off Land's End. The P. and O. steamer Ballarat met with fearful weather on the voyage up the Channel. Her skylight was smashed and stanchions carried away. One hundred and fifty four wrecks are reported in England and France.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 277, 22 November 1893, Page 5
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121A TERRIFIC HURRICANE. Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 277, 22 November 1893, Page 5
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