TOTAL LOSS OF LIFE
(Received 7th December, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 6th December. ■Nineteen lives were lost at sea in yesterday's great gale, and soven Uetuhs cuio to the storm occurred on
land, while there wero many cases of injury and scores of narrow escapes. Three Dublin fishermen were drowned within a few hundreds yards of Dublin during the storm. The wind reached its greatest velocity at Falmouth, where gusts of 94 miles an hour wero registered. Air, steamboat, and railway services were in varying degree interrupted by the storm, and telephone communication was dislocated. Although no town was isolated, 128 Main Trunk lines were out of order and 1000 London subscribers' lines were down. Flooding in many parts of the country became worse yesterday owing to heavy rains, and many rffadways were temporarily submerged. The "position in the Thames Valley is being watched with some anxiety. The river rose further yesterday, and the- level is expected to be higher to-day. The weather forecast promises further severe southerly gales, particularly in the Southern Irish Sea, the English Channel, and the Southern North Sea.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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182TOTAL LOSS OF LIFE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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