THE RECENT GALE IN ENGLAND

Southland Times, Issue 17232, 31 December 1912, Page 5

THE RECENT GALE IN ENGLAND

DANISH STEAMER FOUNDERS, (By Telegraph.—Rw». —Copyright!. LONDON, December 29. ' The Danish steamer Voliier foundered. The captain and a sailor were picked up off the Lizards after two days’ suffering in an open boat. Thirteen were drowned. THE NARRUNG’S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. •WASHED ABOUT LIKE CORKS. LONDON, December 29. Further details regarding the Naming show that two monster-waves rose up suddenly. The Naming rode over the first and then plunged into the trough. Instead of rising to the .second wave the vessel went down to It and the wave swept clean over the whole vessel. Ail the damage was done at one blow. The saloon and deck cabin doors were torn off, the foremast broken In three places, and the winches torn adrift and tossed about like corks. There wee four feet of water in the starboard bilge of the engineroom causing a list qf ten degrees. Wireless touch was maintained with several steamers until the Naming was righted and able to dispense with assistance. Eight lifeboats were mads ready although they could not bavs lived in such a sea. A woman was caught In the sea sod washed to and fro on deck despite her frantic struggles until she was nearly drowned. Almost all her clothing was lorn off. Others were washed about like corks. WOMEN IMPRISONED IN FLOODED CABINS. Mr Marlon, a passenger proceeding by the Narrung to Adelaide, says that WO* men were Imprisoned in the flooded cab* ins, and could not be released. When the ship turned rail down many tiros* to the water's edge, the waters poured down the ventilators. Mesdaroes Sullvan and Marks, travel* ling to Adelaide, were injured, sustain* Ing bruises. The partitions of the cabins w*r* smashed, and some of the occupant* were up to their waists In water, Mr Philips, of Glasonberry, while assisting Miss Furth, was dashed against the bulwarks and badly bruised. Many cabin trunks were smashed and everything washed out. Some women were ta their night dresses for two days. OTHER VESSELS DAMAGED. Many vessels are returning to port crippled and with sailors injured. The Beacon Grange has reached the Solent, The sea swept her near the Caskets. All the starboard lifeboats were smashed, the davits snapped, and several cabin* wrecked, AN gOft WAVE. THE VOLMER’S EXPERIENCE! LONDON, December 39, Received December 30, 11.16 p.m. A wave 80ft high damaged the whol* of the upper structure of the Beacon Grange. The engineers and firemen worked waist deep In water. When the Volmer was 25 miles southward of the Sclllies, one tremendous se* swept the -vessel, ripping off the bulwarks, and ppurlng In -torrents into th* holds and engine-room,’ quenched th* fires. The vessel turned up the’Chan* nel, and drifted for five hours and sank* The survivors experienced terrible hardships. ’; : . •, ..

A thunderstorm raged all night. Two steamers passed-without seeing; the boat, which i was - without oars or water. The .men_ died one py one. The Narrung’s repairs -will occupy flw# weeks. . ■ . = ,