DISASTERS ON LAND AND SEA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 7

DISASTERS ON LAND AND SEA.

A LENGTHY CHRONICLE.

TERRIFIC STORM IN LONDON

By Telegraph—Press Association— Oooyrlnlil (Rec. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 30. . An extraordinary 6torm struck London to-day. A sudden squall of wind, with a. velocity of 64 inile„s an hour, catuo down on tho city, accompanied by rain, and hail. Within an hour an inch of rain had fallen, nnd tho hall did much damnfio. Uiulslone,s half an inch in diameter cut through umbrellas everywhere. Th® underground railway tulws wcro flooded, and traffic had to bo suspended. Tho thermometer dropped to 22 degrees from 87 denroos in a quarter of an hour. At tho coslcrs' market in Fnrrin'gdon Rood tlio stalls were overturned, and fruit, Ixiolis, and Dowers whirled in tho air. Tlio wind struck two largft tents at Epping Forest, burying six hundred Sunday ' School children who wer® attending their annual treat. A terrible panic onsued, until holes were cut to cnablo the children to escapc.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. FIFTEEN REPORTED DEAD. (Rec. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) New York, July 2!). A crowded excursion (rain met a pa# sengor train in a head-on collision on the Bangor-Aroostook railway, near Boston. Fifteen persons are reported to bo dead, and thirty more to havo tea injured. WELSH EXPRESS COLLISION, (Rec. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 20. A Birmingham-Llandudno express ran into an empty, train at Crcwo while travelling at a speed of twenty miles aa hour. , Thirty passengers were injurtd, chiefly, by falling luggage. Tho firemen had difficulty in preventing tho burning wreckage from firing the passenger train. EXCURSION TRAIN DERAILED. New York, July 21). An excursion train on tlio Lehigh ValleJ railroad was derailed, and the Pullman cars rolled down an embankment. Fifty persons wcro injured. One woman may die. INCENDIARISM IN VIENNA.

A HUGE CONFLAGRATION.

(Rec. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) Vienna, July 29,

A clerk named Schottek, who had been dismissed for drunkenness, 1 in revenge fired the timber slacked at the Northern Railway Station. A huge conflagration resulted, sis hundred firemen, three thousand polioe, and two thousand railway men fighting the flarnca for eighteen hours. The fire was prevented from igniting an adjoining warehouse in which were two thousand tons of benzine. Schottck was arrested. The timber destroyed was valued at ■£50,000. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, FACTORY'S FATAL COLLAPSE. (Roc. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, July 29. A factory in course of construction at Grand-Qucvailly, near Rouen, was struck by lightning, and collapsed, burying fifty masons and carpenters. Nine men wero killed, and ten wero seriously injured, four mortally. l FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA. MOUNTAIN RESORTS DESTROTED. (Rec. July 30, 5.5 p.m.) New York, July 29. A forest conflagration is raging in the San Bernodiuo Mountains, which lie between Los Angeles and tho Colorado Desert. Several resorts have ten wiped, out, ! and the four hundred men who ara firofighting are unable to copo with the flames. DISASTERS AT SEA, FOURTEEN MEN LOST. Ottawa, July 28. News has been received from Halifax, Nova Sootia, that the steamer John Irwin, a vessel of 303 tons gross, belonging to the Tort Hood Richmond Railway Coal Company, struck a rock and sank. Thcro is only one survivor out of a crew of fifteen men. SUNK IN COLLISION. Singapore, July 28. Tho ship Mcrsing has been sunk in & collision with tho steamer Khengseng, a wooden vessel of 128 tons, in tho Straita of Malacca. Eight men are missing. IN A CRITICAL POSITION, Toklo, July 28. The posilion of the steamer Empress of China, which went ashore on tho Japanese coast during a recent typhoon, is reported to bo critical. CANADIAN VESSEL ASHORE. BELIEVED TO BE H.M.S. NIOBE. (liec. July 31, 0,5 a.m.) Ottawa, July 30. It is reported that a steamer named the Niobc, and believed to be the Canadian warship of that name, is ashore on the Nova Scotian coast. Tho vessel's engineroom is flooded. Steamers have been dispatched from Halifax and St. John to render aid.