GALE N.S.W COAST.

Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9097, 15 February 1898, Page 3

GALE N.S.W COAST.

Three Vessels Wrecked. Men Drowned in the Presence Spectators. Telegraphic Interruption. Shipping Overdue. Damage by the Storm. Sydney, February 14. The brig Amy, of Woolongong, ' bound to Sydney, was wrecked near Buili in last night's gale, and the crew of eight were all drownedLater. Yesterday's gale carried death and destruction in its train. The crew of the brig Amy, wbich was bound from Woolongong to Sydney, were drowned in the presence of a number of he'pless spectators. Captain McKee attempted to swim ashore, and g. t witbin thirty yards, when he was swept out to the vessel again. The men were washed off the doomed vessel one after another. The schooner Malcolm left Wollongong an hour and a half after the Amy, and shared the same fits, fche foundered off Bu'-li, all hands, consisting of the captain and six of a crew, perishing, A little further northward still the steamer Marion Fenwick, bound from Moraya to Sydney, was totally wrecked, but all hands were saved. As dusk came down, the people of Buili saw a fine large ship driving for the shore, and when dawn broke the ship Langdale, bound for Port Pirie, was seen a mile off the shore holding by her anchors. Owing to the telegraph wires being down, it was late in the day befoie assistance could be invoked from Sjdney, and : a fleet of tugs is now racing down , the coast to the vessel's aid. A fearful easierly sea is running, « and the Langdale ha3 all her work : cut out to hold on, but the wind is, , fortunately, abating. , The telegraph lines are down in all directions. Adelaide is still cut off, but partial communication with Melbourne was restored to-night. The English steamers Wooloomooloo, Fifeshire, and Warrigul, and several coasting steamers, are overdue. Five hundred feet of the Bellambi jetty and a quantity of rolling stock have been washed into the sea.