SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1903, Page 3

SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODS.

FEB FKSBB ASSOCIATION. London, February 27. A storm occasioned great damage in Manchester and Liverpool and endangered the Men&i bridge. BREAKWATER 3 DAMAGED. BUILDINGS UNROOFED. | MINISTER KILLED WHILE SLEEPING. DUBLIN OASTLE DAMAGED. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND FACTORIES WRKCKED.

Received 1, 5.10 pjn. London, February 28. Incoming steamers report having experienced the worst huiyicane encountered for twenty years. The storm and floods have done great ' damage in the North of Ireland and West of Scotland. Some damage has been caused to English breakwaters. Farther wrecks are reported. The roaf of the residence of the Rev. Dewirton, a Primitive Methodist minister at Hetton-le-hole was destroyed. Mr Dewington who was sleep.ing was killed, his wife being seriously injured. Many buildings were unroofed at Dablin, where several fatalities occurred. The gale was especially fierce in Ireland, Dablin Uastle being damaged and a church destroyed. „ Both at Oork and Holyhead several public buildings and factories were wrecked. Altogether 82 persoaawere injured. TKLXGBAPHIO COMMUNICATION SUSPENDED. MKNAI BRIDGE BUCKLED. TRAIN OVERTURNED. COLLIER WREOKEU. FEARED ALL HAVE PERISHED. London, February 38. Telegraphic communication has been almost suspended in the North of England. The Menai suspension bridge has buckled in the centre, and a portion has mov< d out of its p sition. A train consisting of ten carriages was blown over on its side across the other set of rails while crossing a viaduct at Ulverston (Lancashire), 30 people being injured. The collier Ot'erac p, belonging to Sunderland, was wrecked at Finisterre Seven deid bodies have teen recovered, and it is feared that thirty of the crew and passengers have perished. London, February 28. Messrs Elder, Dempster and Oo.'s steamer Lis Palmas, coal laden from New York to Bo3ton, with a crew of 38, is hopelessly overdue. The heavy gale has caused several wrecks on the British coast. The steamer loading for Australia, dragged her anchors, became s'randed and submerged at North Wales. The crew were landed. The gale a theatre at Lower Gomel, near Dudley. Received 1, 5.30 pan. Sydney, March 1. A heivy rainstorm at Newcastle did much damage. Four inches of rain fell in an hour, fboding the business places and cutting up the streets. BATTLESHIP DAMAGED. STEERED BT TWIN 80REWS. Received 2,056 ajn. London, March 1. The battleship Resolution had a rough experietce during the gale, being continually washed by huge seas. Tte waves bent an armoured doar acd snapped the chain controlling the tiller, the huge mass of metal flying from side to side, tut fortunately it failed to penetrate the ship. The hand steering wheel was also rendered useless, the vessel being steered to Plymouth by means of her twin screws.