FIERCE GALE.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 994, 14 September 1903, Page 2

FIERCE GALE.

MANY FATALITIES. HAVOC AT SEA AND ON LAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.52 p.m., Sept. 11. London, Sept. 11. A fierce gale is raging iu Britain. The coasts are strewn with wreckage. Many fatalities have occurred in connection with shipping disasters. Havoc has been worked among the crops. Shipping and mAil steamers havo been delayed many hours. Disturbance bus also been caused in telegraphio and cable business.

STORM ONE OF THE WORST, FOR YEARS.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE./ 1

By Telegraph—Press Association-* Copyright.) Reeoived Sept. 13th, 9.33 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 12. The storm was one of the worst experienced for years. Every part of the British coasts Was visited. The breakwater works at Dover were damaged. The wind at Bath blew at a velocity of 72 miles. A. concert pavilion at Hastings and fifty bathing machines were wrecked. Havoc was wrought amongst the trees at Windsor, the great park of fine elms at Kensington gardens and tlie hop gardens at Kent. Twenty thousand troops encamped on Frodsham common, Cheshire, in connection witli manoeuvres, were drenched through, their tents t|eing levelled to [the ground,lily the force of the gale. ■ ( ' The headquarters marquee fell while the officers were dining. A number of shipping casualties are reported from the French, Belgian, and Dutch coasts. Received 1.13 a.m., Sept. 14. LONDON, Sept. 12. The gale destroyed the commencement of the southern breakwater o! the national harbor at Dover. The damage is estimated at £40,000. It also wrecked the steel framework of a new gasometer at Southsea, the damage amounting to several thousand pounds.