GALES IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1927, Page 1

GALES IN BRITAIN

TWENTY DEATHS REPORTED. RUGBY, Oct. 30. A heavy gale swept the British Isle on Friday night, the wind maintain.]n: an average velocity of nearly 60 mile an hour, while 78 miles an hour wit registered at' Yalentia, Ireland. The shipping round the coast, parti cuhtrly in the south-west and the Irisl Channel, experienced violent seas. The destroyer Rowena, with a miva tug, went to the assistance of tin Spanish tanker Arnus (-1185 tons) whose steering gear broke, west o

Portland Bill. The vessel was in dan ger of drifting on the rocks in AYes: Day, hut she was brought to a safe position, the naval craft standing In ami afterwards towing her into Weymouth.

More than 20 lives were lost throne tiie storm.

The Mersey ports suffered severely from the gale, and a steam barge broke her mornings and crashed against the dock wall and sank, drowning tie mate.

Inland much damage was done. In London n 100-ton crane employed on a new building crashed, and at Bradlord a 180-feet mill chimney was blown down, 200 employees working in the buildings escaping injury. At Blackpool four water-cooling towers. 250 loot high, were torn down at a power station, the adjoining area being flooded and the town deprived of electric currents for several hours. Prom all parts of the coast heavy seas and damage to piers and shipping are reported. The Scarborough, a niolor fishing-boat, which was believed to have been lost, was towed to port late last night. The craft was damaged, after having been blown 30 miles before the gale. FURIOUS GATES. LONDON, October 31. A mounting casualty list of men and ships in the Galway disaster continues to emphasise the unbridled fury ol the gale. Thus far the death roll is fifty, and practically the entire Cleggon Bay fleet Ims been wiped out. Free State aeroplanes are searching the wild coast for possible survivors, many tindier boats form the North Sea Bailie ports are crippled. Dozens were exposed to the fury of the gale Some limped into London today ; cue without coal or captain. who was killed and washed overheard. Another was stripped of masts and everything oil deck, with the crew terribly bruised. The I-1: et wood’s storm death mil lues increased In six, by the discovery of the bodies of two children trapped in a cavern. It it feared others will he found when the waters subside. At present lon-lying buildings are totullv submerged. ’I hmughout the day. boats kind rafts are engaged rescuing | , pic Irom upper storeys. 'I he flood is not expected to recede l ill the weekend.