Storm-swept Scandinavia still staggering

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 9

Storm-swept Scandinavia still staggering

' \ Zrnlnncf Association—Copyright STOCKHOLM. January 7. The hurricane-force winds that battered Northern Europe for three days have at last blown out over the Baltic Sea. leaving much of Scandinavia still staggering from their fury .

• Seventy-nine people were killed in almost non-stop storms over Britain, West Germany, France. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, the dead including at least 26 sailors whose ships went down in the North Sea. Damage to property, crops, land livestock from wind, jsnow. rain, and flood are 'estimated in the millions of 'dollars. On Saturday. Europe’s ; worst storm for 15 years struck Britain and swept across the European Continlent, and on Monday a hurri- | cane-force blizzard hit '.Sweden, Norway, and Denimark. cutting power lines and blocking roads, railways.

Baudoum with cries of "Wcic want bread-” and “Repair the e dykes!" when he visited the c disaster area Further evacuations from surrounding villages took place yesterday after Hood-' waters from the Antwerp-1 Brussels canal and a nearby river rose during the night. Several hundred people'l had already been taken to [safety, and the army and civil defence workers plan to f [move another 1000 cut off < (from essential supplies. I At least 16 people died in J eastern Turkey yesterday l ' [when an avalanche engulfed 1 :one house and heavy snow (storms brought others crash- ' ing down on their inhabit- ' [ants. .< I Near the town ol Bitlis. 10 ' [people were killed and seven) 1 [were injured by an ava(lanche. and heavy snow- • (storms around Adiyaman.h .about 220 miles to the west f 'of Bitlis. crushed houses in It a village, killing another,! (four people. i Two brothers near the ' lakeside city of Van 70 miles east oi Bitlis, froze to t death after being caught in a t [snowstorm. They were dis- i

(and airports with sft-deepl drifts of snow. t . i A spokesman for the Nor- < wegian Coast Guard says < I that seven seamen died yesiterday when their fishing- 5 (boat capsized off the coast of f [Norway in winds of up to 90 , (miles an hour j ! A spokesman at the t (Netherlands’ naval search-and-rescue headquarters atij ! Scheveningen. near Thej ; ■ Hague, reports that all hands!’ (aboard the British coastal L ; steamer Carnoustie and thejj East German vessel Capel la are now presumed dead i: The Carnoustie, with a? > crew of about eight, and the JCapella. with 11. radioed.' •iS.O.S. calls from the North; •[Sea, but later fell silent. |. In Belgium yesterday. I' [angry inhabitants of the’ ([flooded village of Ruisbroek. J ,Inear Antwerp, greeted King'

covered locked in a tight embrace intended to stave off the bitter cold