People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — MANY LIVES LOST. [ARTICLE]

MANY LIVES LOST.

Numerous Deaths In the Storm Off the Irish Coast.. Dublin, April 26.—Reports of the damage done by the furious gale that raged over the southern part of Ireland Monday night continue to be received. The fishing fleet that was at work off Skibbereen when the storm burst suffered greatly. The Manx and Irish boats were the worst sufferers. A number of fishermen were washed from them and drowned. Many boats from Baltimore, County Cork, and forty-five of the Manx fleet are missing, and it is feared that they were dismasted while trying to outride the storm, and, thus disabled, filled and then sank. The smack Florence sank off Baltimore and eight men were drowned. Wreckage has been thrown upon the beach near B?.r Haven, on the north side of Bantry bay, and it is supposed that a steamer has foundered a short distance off the coast.