ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 19, 23 January 1901, Page 2

ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

i LONDON, December 28.—Reports! '^arriving- from all the coast announcej sjdamagev by the storm. Vessels are| |jseoking shelter in the harbours, and! la number of minor wrecks have been S announced. I A despatch from Holyhead says the U British barque Primrose Hill, from I Liverpool December 23rd, for Van-j icouver, went on the Penrhos Hocks, I three miles off Southstack (not far |from Holyhead). She broke in two pand went to pieces in a few minutes. I One man out of the crew of thirtyjgjfive men was saved by a life-boat. sjj The Spanish steamer Enecuri was I driven ashore at the Portland breakI water. The Weymouth life-boat atH tempted to rescue her crew, but the | fearful seas runningl prevented them. llt is believed they can be saved. jj The P>ritish steamer Penopol, from iSlilinn, November 23rd, for Dublin, is I ashore on the sands betweeu Abera|von and Briton. I The gale is so furious in the Chanflnel that the Continental services were ■$ suspended this evening-. I The British steamer Jersey Ci+y, ffiwhich arrived at, Bristol December 25, | from New York, reports that she had | a boisterous passage. % The British steamer Eosefield, I which arrived at Antwerp December1' B 2nd, from Pensacola, lost part of her? jfdeekload on the voyage. ; P The hurrieaue is increasing atj liiQiK-enstown, where the observers say; |ut is the liercest storm for years. Thej ||Marin, laden with coal, sank a.t her! jflanehorage. The mails are delayed, j 5j In response to rockets from Eddy-j Hstone Light, Plymouth sent a dock-j ji'lyord lug, with a life-boat, to-assist? awith what was reported to be a large 'astcamer in distress in the Channel. M Near Taunton the breakwater at yWatchet Harbour yielded to the force Wof the gale and became a wreck, per-[ Mmitting a tremendous sea to have fullj pplay against the shiping in the harIjjjj boiir. Heveral vessels broke adrift, v\ two foundered, and five others were f< driven into a hopeless tangle in a[ between a pier and a wharf,! | where they lay grinding against each I other1. Their masts and bulwarks | speedily went, and their hulls were I greatly battered. The damage will greach many thousands of pounds. j| The Austrian barque Capricorn jjwas driven ashore near "Bude, CornJwall. Nine of her crew -were drowned, jone was saved, and four are still on aboard, with little likelihood of being jlrescued. as they are unable to avail! .^themselves of the rocket apparatus. j&Two other vessels are ashore on the IJCornwall coast. 1 Several were stove in at Infracombe fHarbour. The barque Pagna was! i wrecked off Trevine, near Cardiff, j ■ three of her crew being drowned and! £ nine others being- rescued by rocket | lines. | H.M.S. Black Prince, at Queensf town, and H.M.S. Teaser, at PortsI mouth, were both badly damaged, g Wales appears to have suffered the ii worst effect of the gale both jq land! | and sea, but everywhere the telegraph I wires are much disorganised, and re•3 ports are, therefore, incomplete. | Considerable damage to property II inland is certain to be reported. Some $ fifty barges and sailing crafts broke ifrom their moorings in the Thames |alone. I At Oswestry a theatre was deHstroyed. H The steamer Zesiro collided with wanother steamer near Cliveden, in the stßritish Channel. A life-boat rescued jf|nine of her crew. |j The Pegasus grounded off LayerInock Point, but she was subsequently |floaled and towed to a place of sheliter. When she grounded her boats iwere made ready for lowering, and rathe falls of one of them carried away, !" precipitating five men int-o the water. They were all drowned, with the exception of a sailor, who was landed at Cardiff, The man was picked up by a tug. Tv nddition to some vessels not yet identified, several have been wrecked or placed in great danger. LONDON, December 29.—Quantities of wreckage have been thrown up on the different coasts, evidence of dis-j asters from the gale not yet report-* cd. The Great Western Railroad Company's steamer, plying between Milford and Waterford, which last night was reported twelve hours overdue,! reached Waterford thirty-two hours! late. The remainder of the crew of the Spanish steamer Eeneun, which was driven ashore at the Portland breakwater—where twenty-two men got ashore, leaving five men on the wreck—have been landed. The captain revisited the vessel to-day. As he stepped on her deck the ship heeled over and sunk, and the captain was drowned. The French barque Seine, from fquique, September 23, for Dunkirk, has been driven ashore at Perranporth, Cornwall. The crew, numbering twenty-three men, were saved by the rocket apparatus. PARIS, December 29. —Advices from the ports say the gale raged with extreme violence, and that a number of fishing smacks and coasting vessels have been wrecked. Their crews were seen clinging to the rigging, but the majority of them were beyond reach of the rockets. A lifeboat gallantly rescued many of the fishermen, but ten of them perished. A brig was totally lost on the Sables de Lonnes. Of her crew four men. were drowned, and two reached the beach by clinging to barrels. The report telegraphed from London that the ship Birmrose Hill had

1 been destroyea aurmg si storia in Lneg I English Channel caused deep regreti lin San Francisco, where the vessel! I and her commander, Captain Joe Wil-I I son, were well known. . 1 1 The Primrose Hill had been to this| I port often, and was spoken of as thei '^prettiest and best appointed ship that| ihad ever bee'h seen in the harbour.| iShe was known as "the yacht," sol |trim and so well kept was the craft.| f Her master, Captain Wilson, was veryl ipopular among local shipping men,i. iilas was also the mate, Hughes. Hughes! |Jwas an able mariner, and was re"X! iquently offered the command of ships.M |He always declined, however, prefer-H : Qi'ing to remain first officer of +neo Hill under Captain Wilson.if HHe was a genial fellow, and welljdl iliked. P,