SHIPS MISSING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 8, 22 October 1935, Page 5

SHIPS MISSING

SCORES OF DEATH'S FEARED.

TEN FATALITIES ON LAND

(United Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, October 21All day seven ships systematically searched hundreds of milesof turbulmit ocean, fruitlessly seeking for thec of the steamer Varduha, who were forced yesterday to take to the boats 600'miles north-west of the Hebrides. One vessel reported that it would have been impossible to launch boats in such a sea, and in view of this there is little hope left for the crew of 37. The German steamer Erfurt is feaied to be lost with a crew of .25, because she has not been located since Saturday, when she lost her propellers. The Newcastle steamer Pendenms sank off the Dutch coast.. The crew of 22 were saved by a Norwegian steamer. The Hull steamer Magrix went ashore in Yorkshire, but the crew walked off at low tide. _ Four steamers sheltering ill an estuary collided. The Italian steamer pilsnft was seriously damaged,and the French steamer Auvergne signalled that she was in distress. The French steamer Adrar is stranded on a sandbank off Westerland. A German battleship is steaming to her assistance. The gale spread tragedy on land as well as bn the. sea. There were 10 deaths, including that of a child who was incinerated when a chimney crashed. A youth and a mail were blown from their cycles and the youth was buried beneath 20 yards of brick wall.'which collapsed. A woman collapsed after being buffeted by the wind; ■A workman. was crushed against a wall when an . iron box was blown against him., A Hull city councillor had a narrow escape when a 12ft. chimneyi pierced the ceiling and the desk at which lie was working. A car was cut in half by a falling tree in Yorkshire, but the driver was uninjured. In Sunderland a man was severely injured when lie flung himself over hi’s children to protect them from a collapsing roof. Forty telephone exchanges are completely cut off.