SEVERE STORMS
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.
TRAIN SWEPT AWAY. VESSELS DAMAGED. (Received January 16, 12.30 p.m.) MADRID, January 15. The Governor of Leon, in the northwest, reports that an avalanche at Puebla de Gardon swept into a river the locomotive and eight wagons of a train, which had been hold np by snow. The snow is twenty feet in depth in many places. The tunnels of the Aralar line are blocked, and several trains have been buried. It is not known whether the relief,that has been sent can reach the held-up trains. The 'wires are down. There has been great havoc wrought at Cadiz, Gijon, and Vigo, where eighty vessels were destroyed or damaged. Assistance has been sent to Ottero, near Segovia, where a train is snowed up. The passengers arc without food. There-are many other-trains snowed up in North Spaia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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144SEVERE STORMS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 17 January 1911, Page 5
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