FIERCE GALES IN BRITAIN.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION INTEIIUITTED. TREMENDOUS SEAS. TRAIN DASHES INTO A LANDSLIDE. By Cable.—Press A*ssociation.—€opyrigot Received February 21, 10.40 p.m. London, February 21. The hurricane in Britain continues. At some places the wind attained a speed of 80 miles an hour. Tremendous seas are running on some parts of the coast. One hundred and twenty-nine Channel passengers -were unable to land at Folkestone". A thousand telephone lines have been destroyed in London, and telegraphic communication between England and France has been practically severed. The mail train from Belfast to Larne, running at a speed of fifty miles an hour, dasbed into a landslide. The rear carriages were thrown into the sea. The forty passengers escaped serious injury.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 321, 22 February 1910, Page 5
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119FIERCE GALES IN BRITAIN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 321, 22 February 1910, Page 5
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