FURIOUS GALE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 54, 4 March 1903, Page 2

FURIOUS GALE.

NUMKROUJ FATALITIES. PEE PBKSS ASSOCIATION. liOKdo.v, March 2. Iwonty-Cvo deaths r. suited from (ha gale and thii y-three wrecks! Dimage his been dona to churches, factories aud f-ums to Ihe amount* hundreds of thousands. The Dominion lifer Merton is Mhoi* at Roche's Point, Queens town. Bb* has 90 passenger* aboard. G rmany, Prance and Holland have suffered severely from the gales. KXTKNSIVH DAMAOR TO TBLBGR4PH WIR«S. Received 3,10.37 p m. London, March 8. Th* fttorm d*miged the telegraphs in every district of England and Wales with the exo'ptior. of a pirtio»of the south etstern counties and one win whioh connected England with Qlm> gow. The heavy swr-ll prevented towing the Merton, which remain*in a orltioJ position. The pasteogers remain aW>ard. Received 3 11.26 p.M. Lokdon, March S. The b'rqu*, showing distress seen at 10 o'clook on Sunday night to strike tha Pii'o n « Rooks off theeoeafe of Cornwall, which apparently sank or brok" up, ia b lievod to be a German vesse', from a pir'ion of the word Hambmg on a lifebelt washed uliore with pieces of cases and casks addreaftd to N*w Zealand. Undoubtedly this crew parisbe 1. The lifeboat and coastguard men searched the coast for how*. NARROW BBOAPB OF A CHAM NIL BTEAHER. R'oelved 4.10.0 a.m. London, March 8. The steamer Pas De Oalais with 180 passengers aboard was drifting during the storm, her paddle-wheels Mag disabled. She narrowly escaped Kb* Good win Binds. Having repaired tha damage she reached Dover,