GALE IN ENGLAND
TOLL OF DAMAGE MOUNTS
SERIOUS FLOODS REPORTED
(British Official Wireless..
RUGBY, October 4.
The toll of damage from the gale throughout England continued to mount during the day, and serious floods are also reported, from the north.
The wind reached a velocity of 80 miles an hour at Blackpool, where i nearly a mile of illuminations and tableaux along the sea route have been wrecked. Trawlers could not enter Grimsby, dock. , The cross-Channel services' are completely disorganised. From the point of view of damage to telephone lines Post Office officials describe the storm as one of the worst for many years. The Dutch steahier Regina (421 tons) is aground off the Sker rocks, on the SOuth Wales coast, with nine men and one woman aboard, but the leas were so high that after one man was | brought ashore rescue attempts wetty abandoned until the gale abated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 9
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149GALE IN ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 9
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