STORM IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1935, Page 9

STORM IN BRITAIN

SNOW, SLEET, AND HAIL HAVOC WROUGHT BY GALE STILL CONTINUING (British Official Wlrdeu.) (Eeceived January 28, 11 a.m.) EUGBY, January 26. A furious gale, reaching 86 miles aa hour, accompanied by storms of snow, sleet, and hail, is sweeping the British Isles. The gale started early yesterday, and is still continuing. Inland the wind uprooted trees, tore down telephone wires and electricity cables, in one case in the path of a train, and demolished hoardings and chimneys. Many ■ roads were blocked with snow, of which light falls occurred in the London area and heavy falls in northern and eastern counties. Several fishing vessels round the coast, unable to reach shelter before the storm broke, were in distress, but no lives have been Jost. Among many acts 'of heroism reported was that of a doctor and nurs« who crossed 10 miles of a raging sea, with an 80-mile blizzard blowing, to help.an injured man on one of the Shot, land Islands. The wind reached 90 miles an hour at Ilfraoombe, Devon, tbia morning, smashing the. arcade which is the main shopping centre and doing1 much damage to houses and fishing craft. Old residents describe the gale as the worst within their memory.