SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 9

SEARCHING FOR VICTIMS.

GALE IN BRITAIN. IRISH FISHING VILLAGES GRIEFSTRICKEN. ittnmsH orricuL* winr.LEss.) RUGBY, November ]. The grief-stricken people of the Irish fishing villages, headed by the local clergy, are still searching for the bodies of victims of tho gale. In some villages fathers and sons were lost together, and every one of lie jw families on Inniskea Island has been bereft of some of its relatives.

The Free State Government has taken immediate steps to relieve tho urgent distress. In the Moolfrc lifeboat, which fought the gale on tho English eoast for IS hours, one man had his coat torn off, but stood continuously with his hand on tho tiller.

A\hcn the waterlogged lifeboat approached the ketch Excel she was lifted by a great wave on to the deck of the wreck, and washed off again. Tier sides were holed, but she remained afloat, and with the crew and the rescued nil badly bruised, and two of them dead through exposure, she ultimately reached port.

ROYAL GIFTS FOR RELIEF FUND. (acstrauax and x.z. cable association.) (Received November 2nd, -j.u p.m.) LONDON, November 2. The King has given £IOO and the Queen £SO towards the relief fund for the dependents of the victims of the Irish fishing fleet disaster.