Great Storm at Home.
STEAMER AND 34 MEN LOST. OTHER FATALITIES. (Per Piess Association—Copyright.) LONDON, December 30. Tho late gale was the worst experi* enced in Great Britain for years. There were many wrecks. A mountainous sea drove the steamer Penrose Hill on the Penrhoo rocks, on the coast of Wales, and broke her in halves The crew of 35 were drowned except one.
Thirteen perished on the coast of Cornwall and the Bristol Channel. Seventy barges broke adrift in the river Thames
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9830, 31 December 1900, Page 2
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