GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10, 5 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CRICCIETH CASTLE SURVIVORS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press'Association.) London, September I. The Criccicth Castle survivors, including the captain’s wife and child, were seven days in the boat, and were without water for three days. The majority suffered terribly from frostbite. The second officer and one seaman died after landing. MANY DEATHS FROM FIRE DAMP. Paris, September 4. A firedamp explosion occurred in the Clarence mine at Bethune. Tlhiirty-threo have been rescued, whereof twentythree are seriously burned. Four dead bodies have been recovered, thirty-seven are still entombed, and the chance of rescue is hopeless. STORMS IN PENNSYLVANIA. i ;'t NOT A.’ HOUSE STANDING. ; s' Hun;; ~ New York, September 4. The death ybl 1 in connection with the storms in Pennsylvania is forty. The damage is esiraated at about tlhlreequarters of a million sterling. Farmers have boon ruined wholesale. iA large area is inundated. The flood struck Salinesville. Hundreds of the inhabitants fled, narrowly escaping with, their lives. Not a house was left standing. .vs.FIRE IN LS ANGELES. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. New York, September 4. A huge fire occurred in Los Angeles. It started through a defective flue in a safe on a pleasure pier, and destroyed the chief buildings of the Ocean Park and Venice Companies. The loss is half a milion sterling. Seven men were caught in the flames at the end of the pier and leaped into the surf. Six were rescued but the seventh, was drowned.

Thrilling rescues were made from the Hotel Decatur, where many occupants were cut off by tllite flames. Firemen saved nine children which were housed within a baby incubator on the pier. Roman Catholics gathered in St. Clement’s Church and offered prayers for the safety of the church building. The wind shifted shortly afterwards and the church was untouched, although the surrounding buildings were destroyed.