GALES IN ENGLAND
PROPERTY SEVERELY DAMAGED LONDON, February 11. Gales throughout England lasted all night. A wind of a velocity of 104' mdes an hour was recorded at Liverpool, the highest ever registered in England, though it has been previously exceeded in Ireland and Scotland. A nouse in Birminghain was blown down, and a man was killed in bed and his wife seriously, injured. The damage to property is substantial, ELEVEN P.EOPLE KILLED. LONDON. February 12. Eleven people were jailed and many injured by the gale in Britain. In Lincoln a massive gargoyle fell 2ooft from the centre tower of the cathedral, and in Gloucester a chimneystack crashed on to the roof of a house and killed a sleeping boy. In Birmingham the roof of a public house collapsed on a bed in which Frank Garraty and his wife were sleeping. The floor gave way, and the couple fell into the kitchen. The man died on the way to the hospital, and his wife is seriously injured.
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Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 4
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167GALES IN ENGLAND Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 4
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