GREAT STORM STILL RAGING

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 7

GREAT STORM STILL RAGING

Much Damage In Spain And Portugal

THOUSANDS HOMELESS

i Received February .18, 9.10 p.m. >

MADRID, .February 17

A violent storm is still raging Ihrotighoul: Spain. The whole of the old town section of Santander has been destroyed, ineiutling the Ihlr-eeuth ceiltui" cathedral. The damage may exceed £3,500,000. Several thousand people are homeless and tire camping on the beach. Madrid is cut "off from tlie north owing to roads and railways being blocked will) blown-down trees, buildings and telegraph poles. Five died when a house collapsed in San Sebastian. A hospital and several houses collapsed in Zuniitya and tlm wind ripped of Hu- roofs of many houses In Seville. Portugal’s damage, it is estimated, will wipe out: 12 years of Budgetary surpluses. At least 1000 people have been injured and scores are missing. LISBON. February 17. Few streets escaped damage from the hurricane in which the British flyingboat. Clyde was lost. Tall chitniteys collapsed like packs of cards. Many bouses have been evacuated. A British four-engined naval fiyingboat. made a forced landing in the Bay of Setubal. Tlie pilot grounded Hie machine on a river bank and expects to go on tu Gibraltar within the legal limit of international law. Sixteen ships were stink in tin- T.-igu’-by the gale, wliieli lashed tip waves :.’0 feet high. Tim Tagus overflowed at Alhandra. where over 100 people were drowned. Twenty-seven women anil children were sheltering mi the roofs of ;t nearby I’arniiiouse wlieti the building collapsed. Twelve bodies have been recovered so far. Tlie gale is regarded as tin- worst in Europe in S 7 years.