News and Miscellany

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 26, 1872

News and Miscellany.

“Can we not discern the signs of the times?”

Great Storm.

The North of Europe Visited by a Tremendous Gale—Many Shipwrecks in the North and Baltic Seas—Islands and Towns Swept by the Flood—Great Loss of Life, Etc.

LONDON, Nov. 16.—The Norwegian ship Sesostris, was wrecked in the North Sea during the terrible gale on Wednesday last, and one hundred and forty of her crew perished.

A dispatch from Stralsund, to-day's date, reports that eighty vessels were totally wrecked in the late gale. The town was considerably damaged by the inundation. The fishermen on the islands of Seingst, Dars, and Hiddensoe, lost all their fishing smacks and apparatus. Their houses and contents were greatly damaged by the water. Nearly all the cattle on the islands were drowned. Wells were flooded from the sea, and the inhabitants are suffering for want of fresh water, food, and shelter. The Government has dispatched a steamer laden with supplies for their relief. The island of Rugen also felt the disaster heavily. Many of its fishing boats have been destroyed, and the fields near the coast line are flooded. The loss of life, both on the islands and mainland, is very great.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 16.—During the recent great storm, the small island of Bostoa was entirely submerged, and all its inhabitants were drowned.

The storm which raged in the north of Europe, on Wednesday and Thursday, was very disastrous throughout Denmark, and on the coast. The wind blew a hurricane, and rain and snow fell incessantly. Streams overflowed their banks and inundated the country for miles. Great damage was done to sea-port towns, and numerous marine disasters occurred. Reports of the loss of twenty-four ships have already been received. Half of the town of Prasto, in the island of Seeland, on the Baltic, was laid waste by the force of the wind.