GALE STRIKES ENGLAND

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24987, 23 September 1946, Page 5

GALE STRIKES ENGLAND

Thirteen Persons Killed • 1 THREE VESSELS SUNK teMOpaW LONDON, Sept. 22. death-roll in a great gale Channel and South on before moving on JNorthern Germany, numbered 13, Je.u persons were injured,” [Sunday Express.” inree ships were sunk and four «e driven ashore. «nners estimate that millions of sS °* damage was done to fields. London telephones we put out of order, and telephone jJJj® to the Continent were inter4j®Port from Frankfurt says that ihSirP**®* BollB were killed when buildings collapsed “er tbe high winds. l iS ee „i Passengers were tost overa great wave struck a m f»,~ ar ? er en rou te to Southhampi f£?V er ? ey - 1710 steamer battled ith hJS? and reached port | asserfS? givin g fir st aid to I usuries, including a of broken limbs. he e M ve the ferry oodedH, r °fied over until the sea I hree deck s, carrying off the fa Passengers and a XS?S aggage - - beirSJ? the north of England burst slsanJk and fiooded railway tun-r-re Schools and factories tre mSS’ families in Yorkshire « »Sf?? ned , ln their bedrooms as four in the streets, flevs sweeping down the r, itiu?. x a Y ay stock, corn, timhekwatollVes^oc^- Th® Darwen and ®ks at nL nver - s overflowed their rge arpJ?^ y Points, and flooded five CX? ckburn to a de ? th Jsre stonrS’ M J lls and workshops Mserai ? nd w °rkers evacuated, (fifeoonerf i? U fl dred families were Mfcen p?,tne upper storeys of their HSiwUh e m rowing boats and Mplg. “ escape ladders took them a l Keighley, where the 4K flooded d Alre Join ’ was seri " Kt? streets under 3” thoigh/Vh ° £ water - Farmers, M over , worst must surely A found t s fo° k ° and stacks soaked, 3? to nrev»^ es J ary to tear stacks iffiine preven t danger from over-