BAD WEATHER IN BRITAIN.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS
MANY LIVES LOST.
By Telegraph.—l'resc Association.- Cop.vrislH London, January 18 A fierce gale was experienced in Britain to-day.
Many fatalities are reported and much damage waa caused to shipping and to harbour works.
A German steamer struck tho Goodwin Sanda and wan wrecked, Tho Rami gate lifeboat, with gre a t gallantry, rescued 20 of the crew. A steamer, whose identity has not yet been ascertained, waa seen to turn turtle and founder oil' Peterhead.
Tho terrific pale made it impossible, for any boat to;venture out to help the crew, and all were drowned. A lifeboat followed the steamer Wistow Ilail which was drifting in a disabled cundition, for five hours. The tide, which was running alike a maelstrom, dashed the Wistow Hal 1 into the Bullers of Buchan Rocks, near Peterhead.
Four men, includnp; the captain, were saved. The rest, in number, mostly Lascars, were drowned. (The famous Pullers of Buchan consists of a huge vertical well in tho granite margin of the sea, si:c miles south of Peterhead, 50 feet in diameter and 100 feet deep, into which the sea rushes by a natural archway.) A HEAVY SNOWSTORM. RAIL TRAFFIC DELAYED. London, January IS. Snow fell for of> hours in tho Midlands. and trains have been seriously delayed. Tons of salt was used to thaw the snow. The weight of ice coating the telegraph wires in many localities dragged the poles down. Fifteen thousand miners are idle at Cannockcase, Staff ordsire, owing to difficulty in moving railway trucks.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 432, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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256BAD WEATHER IN BRITAIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 432, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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