STORM DAMAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1928, Page 5

STORM DAMAGE

considerable LOSS of life

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE ON CONTINENT.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON. Nor. 27

“The TiniesV’ .Madrid correspondent slates that hero has been a consderable loss of life among the fishing fleets during the week-end. A trawler saved the crew of twenty-seven, of the steamer Artameiidi, near Bilbao.

‘The Times’s” Berlin correspondent states that the northern harbours are crowded with sheltering shipping. The dykes protecting Schleswig Holstein broke in many places, owing to heavy seas. 'The island of Sylt js marooned. 'I lie Great Mindenburg Dam, carrying the railroad is damaged, and tbo islanders eomphbii that tbe dam banks up with tbe tide. Two large towns are submerged. Tbe inhabitants of remote villages were taken off in boats. A German correspondent of “Tbe Times” says that storms have demolished extensive forests in the .Jura region. and farm buildings have been demolished.

SERIOUS GALE

COLLIERY TOWN SUFFERS

(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, November 27.

A gale caused terrible distress in the colliery town of Blaina, Monmouthshire, where forty-six per cent of employable persons' are unemployed. Tbo roofs of Tour hundred houses were blown off ami (be limnes of seven litindreil people are thus un inhabit able. Hundreds of bouses were Hooded ntiL. The total damage is L'o(),()0().