STORM HAVOC

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 310, 16 December 1936, Page 5

STORM HAVOC

MANY LIVES LOST. FLOODS IN BRITAIN. Railway Train Derailed By Landslide. Press Association—Copyright. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11 a.m. To-day). London, December 15. Considerable damage done on both land and sea is the result of a 76 tn.p.h. gale which raged over Britain yesterday. Several lives were lost, including those of a father, son and daughter, who leaped overboard from a strandled motor boat off the Suffolk Coast. The only survivor was another daughter, 14 years old, who was too timid to follow them into the sea.

Several ships were in distress during the storm, which did not moderate until late last night. The gale was. accompanied by heavy rainfall, and at i.Ambleside, in the Lake district, 3.2 inches were recorded in 24 hours. Some mills in Lancashire- and Yorkshire valleys were< flooded. 'The engine, four goods vans and the passenger coach of a London-Midland-Scottish line train were derailed near Kendal owing to a landslide. There was serious flooding in North Wales, Lancashire and Cheshire and many roads were rendered impassable. I