Grief-Stricken Irish Villagers Searching for Storm Victims

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 1

Grief-Stricken Irish Villagers Searching for Storm Victims

FATHERS AND SONS DIE TOGETHER British Wireless—Press Assn Copyright Received 11.30 a.m. * RUGBY, Tuesday. GRIEF-STRICKEN people of the Irish fishing villages, headed by the local clergy, are still searching for the bodies of the victims of the storm last week. In some villages fathers and sons were lost together, and every one of the 27 families on Inniskea Island has been bereft of some of its relatives.

f J'HE Free State Government has taken immediate steps to relieve urgent distress. In the Moolfre lifeboat which fought the gale on the English coast for 18 hours, one man had his coat torn off, but stood continuously with his hand on the tiller. When the waterlogged lifeboat approached the ketch Excel, she was lifted by a great wave on to the deck of the wreck, and washed off again. Her sides were holed, but she remained afloat, and with the crew and the rescued all badly bruised, and two of them dead

through exposure, she ultimately reached port. CHILDREN DIE IN CAVE The deaths caused by the storm at Fleetwood, Lancashire, have been Increased to six by the discovery of the bodies of two children who were trapped in a submerged cavern. It is feared others will be found when the waters subside. At present buildings in low-lying parts of the town are totally submerged. All day people in boats and on rafts have been rescuing refugees from the upper storeys of houses. The flood is not expected to recede until the end of this week.—A. and N.Z.