GREAT STORM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

GREAT STORM.

DISASTERS IN NORTH SEA

MANY LIVES LOST. LONDON, October 7 V A fierco uortli-easterly gale prevailed in the North Sea and English Channel chuing the week-end, the wind attaining a force of nearly • seventy miles . an hour on Saturday, . night,, The mail steamer services have been badly disorganised, and two of the' Dover-Os'terid services were abandoned : owing to.,, the gale, whilst on Sunday the Dover,^mail steamer proceeded to Boulogne to disembark passengers and mails, as Calais was reported inaccessible. The usual night service from Dover to Ostend was abandoned, and the passengers, who piv r"ypd "by the London mail trains slept aboard the steamer.

Lloyd's i\laassluis message says : The Dutch pilot boat. Hellevoetsluis put in on Sunday badly dumaged, the, captain, two pilots, and an apprentice being • drowned, and another pilot severely hurt and dying. The German steariier Gladiator has foundered near Ymuiden; Threo of the crew were drowned. LINER STRANDED, t . The Hamburg- America liner Kpnig Fiiediich Auguste, of 9500 gross and 5590 registered tonnage', •-' abound,"' for Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, arrived in Boulogne roads on Saturday at.midday during a nor-westerly gale, and anchored in tlie deep sea harbor. About nine o'clock at night at the height of the gale, the. vpssel dragged her anchors and. drifted agroun_d at nearly low water of a neap tide. The passengers' luggage had been ship]>ed, and 125 passengers on board a tender* were on^their way to the ivessel when , she .grounded. ..The

passengers thereupon returned to port. A terrible jiurricaiie raged in the Schledt on Saturday iii ghl ' The threemasted vessel Segura dragged ter anchors, and collided with the steamer Arana, which was. damaged. Several lighters sank. Two persons' are said to have been drowned. Antwerp tramway traffic is almost at a standstill. -

Tho .German tug Thor, , which .left Masassluis with ,. the . .lighter Moderne Kunst in tow, put _ back , on „ Sunday without the lighter! ' wliich lias probably foundered with all lvands. DUTCH COAST WRECKS. /Vdvices reqeiv;e^ .at, iVmsterdani on Tuesday' which were delayed by.tjie.interruption of cbmmunicatiop with the province of ; Zeeland, stUte that 120 vessels out of a fleet of 130 mussebfishing boats,, .hejonging to the , village of Bruihisse, were lost or. sustained considerable damage during' Sunday's storm. Five inland vessels were' wrecked on waterways between' 'Dordrecht and the North Sea. Most of the crews were drowned. It is reported that twentyeight corpses have been washed up near Steenbergen. Mariy bodies have been washed up on the Belgian coast. , The Norwegian brigantine Caprico has been los", with all hands in the. Wash, Thb vessel ' leff'Lynn last Frida'v with coal for Fredrikshald. Distress 'signals were observed, and tugs riiade an exhaustive search, but nothing was seen. .Largo quantities of wreckage have since heen washed ashore between Lynn and Hunstanton, establishing the identity'of the vessel. '

The body of one of the crew, wearing a lifebelt, lias been found on Wolverton Marshes. *

Another message says the biigautine brought ice to King's Lynn,"aW left afterwards with coal for Fredrickshald, broke from her anchors, .and was pounded to pieces, on the Wash sandbanks. Her crew bf eight men were*all drowned. The body of the captain and owiier, Mill. Anderson, of Fredrikshald, has been washed a«hore at Wolferton with the ship's papers on it. The Lowestoft fisljing ketch Chrysolite was towed into Dover on Tuesday dismasted and b'adlv damaged as a result of tlie violent gale in-the-,North Sea.