TWELVE LIVES LOST
PACIFIC COAST GALE
LINER TORN FROM BERTH
SEATTLE, October 21.
Twelve aro known to be dead and two others are believed lost in widespread shipping and property damage following an 80 to 90-mile-per-hour gale, which swept tho Pacific Coast and
north-west on Sunday
The fishing vessel Agnes foundered off the Washington coast with a crow of five. The other deaths arc: Two more drownings, two killed by building wreckage, two by falling high-ten-sion wire, and a motorist by a falling tree. Two are believed to have been lost when a house fell into the Skagit River.
The liner President Madison was torn from her Seattle berth, crushing three smaller craft and sinking one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 8
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116TWELVE LIVES LOST Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 8
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