GREAT GALE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10319, 31 January 1927, Page 5

GREAT GALE

EIGHT KILLED AND 100 INJURED IN GLASGOW. COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS. AREAS STRICKEN AS IF BOMBARDED. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 28. Itight persons were killed and 100 taken to hospital at Glasgow as the result of a gale, which raged all (jay, attaining a velocity of 90 miles an hour.Tlie lop of a tenement building fell, demolishing successive floors and the occupants’ furniture, the timber being piled up at the bottom. Four people were taken out dead. The collapse of a warehouse killed three persons. Brickwork fell fatally on a girl’s head in the street. The gale increased until the afternoon, when large areas seemed stricken as by a bombardment. Debris littered the streets and only people who were compelled to ventured outdoors. Two tram-cars and many vehicles were overturned.

The ambulance brigade worked like Trojans all morning answering calLs, but found It impossible-to keep pace with the work when the gale reached its height. They then obtained assistance from outside ambulances. A large building in the centre of the city is considered dangerous, and' protective barricades have been erected.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

WHOLE OF BRITAIN AFFECTED. WIND REACHES VELOCITY OF 102 MILES. (Received Jan. 30, 8 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 30. Fifteen deaths are directly and indirectly attributed to the great gale which has raged all over Britain and which attained a velocity of a hundred and two miles per hour at Renfrew, which is officially declared to be most unusual. FREIGHT TRAIN OVERTURNS. (Received Jan. 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 29. The gale is unabated in Scotland. The North Edenburg Island and the Scillv Islands are telegraphically isolated. There have been at least eighteen deaths, eleven of which have been in Glasgow, where a boy ’.'as blown beneath a motor-car and instantly killed.

Reports from all over the country .-bow that houses are mroofed and chimneys rased. Traffic is blocked by fallen trees, Overflowing rivers and -.vamped houses. In North Wales there are 'ffceded pastures. cl nancy crashed in a tliree-stor-ied f:.'“ orv at Dundee, burying a woman. The telegraph wires ai Dundee cohap re 1 under the weight cf the gale. a straw freight train overturned at Wexford. Two hundred empty mil wav conches wore inadvertently started at Rippendou siding an< crashed into an embanxcvv.it wade travelling at forty miles hour. Tv,>! •> carriages were Ca-valUes are feared .n Srr.!ti,;, f, .'i,ng fleets. —Sun.