FISHING FLEET'S LOSS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9

FISHING FLEET'S LOSS

LANDSLIDE IN WALES

DISASTROUS FLOODS

British Official Wireless, EUGBY, lith' November. The toll of damage done iv Monday's galo cannot yet ■be fully estimated. The Secretary for Scotland stated in Parliament that a fleet of 600 fishing vessels was. struck by. a gnle in the North Sea and lpst 31,000 nets, which will cost £150,000 to replace, It was | thought that only three lives had been lost, but tho latoat information mdi* cates that there wora eleven deaths. Many of .the boats engaged npw carry wireless sets; and^the broadcast warnmg of the-- approaching storm enabled some of them to haul in their nets in time. The disaster has not caused a. general stoppage of fishing, and many boats put! to aea . ' A Grimsby drifter, on reaching port yesterday, reported that a great wave had swept the ship, ca/rying the skipper and two deck harfds into the sea. The skipper was washed- back by a, succeeding wave, but the two deck hands were lost. On land great damage has boon done by floods, notably in the Bbondda Valley of South Wales. A large part pf a hillside at Pontygraith gave way owing to the inundation. Yesterday fisaures Jive feet wide and 70 fqet long were discovered in the breast of the hillside and a whole mass of thousands of tons' of earth was moving steadily down, wards. Ten families occupying houses in tho direct path of the landslide were yesterday ordered to loave their immediately, A record rainfall for England and Wales was recorded at Pontypridd, where 8.3 inches was registered in 24 hours. On the upper reaches of the Severn two bridges have been destroyed. Heavy losses of live stock and crops are roported from Staffordshire and Lancashire. -