NORTH SEA STORM

Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 7

NORTH SEA STORM

GREAT DAMAGE IN DENMARK

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRKJBT.)

(AOSIRALUN - HEW ZEALAND CA»U ASSOCIATION.)

COPENHAGEN, Ist September. Enormous ■ damage was done by a hurricane in West Jutland. A "dam at bandanese was broken, and forty workers are believed to have been drowned, while sixty who endeavoured to escape on a raft have not be heard ot. A steamer with two hundred holi-day-makers is drifting seaward. A number of fishing smacks is missing. it is reported that the island of Manoe, off the wegt coast, has been completely submerged owing to the collapse of the dam. The fate of the inhabitants is not known.

Later information regarding th e collapse of the Sondanase dam shows that the dam wa*'under construciton. .The workers and their families were living in specially-constructed timber barracks,, which became rafts when the floods occurred. Fifteen persons, including women and children, were on board one raft, ■ which struck some barbed-wire and was thus entangled for UV3 hours before the rescue of the people w;:s effected. Meanwhile fighting half-drowned cattle were endeavouring to scramble on board. Many of the workers have not been accounted for.

COPENHAGEN, 2nd' September. As -a. result of the ' hurricane, the harvest has practically \been destroyed, corn, dead cattle, timber, farming plant, and furniture drifting .where prosperous farms formerly stood. Manoe has not been completely submerged, but practically everything has been destroyed.