EAST COAST GALES

Evening Star, Issue 22524, 17 December 1936, Page 11

EAST COAST GALES

SCOTTISH TRAWLERS ASHORE TWO MEN DROWNED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 16. (Received December 17, at noon.) Stormy weather continues along the east coasts. Two men were drowned to-day when the drifter Margaret and Francis was ■driven ashore in a gale off Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. The remaining member of the crew reached shore with the aid of a lifebelt and was picked up unconscious. The Aberdeen trawler David Buchan and the Buckie drifter Heathery Knowe were driven ashore in the gale, but the crews got ashore safely. COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE INCIDENT AT BRIGHAM. LONDON, December 16. (Received December 17, at 2.15 p.m.) The renewal of the recent fierce Atlantic gales, a repetition of which was forecast, swept a trail of damage throughout England. 'lt has caused 10 deaths, including a motorist who crashed through a bridge railing into a river. As the passenger leapt clear, a crateful of ducks aboard the car came to the surface alive after half an hour’s submersion. The swollen Derwent River, Cumberland, was the scene of an unusual tragedy. A bridge collapsed at Brigham, throwing four men into the torrent. Two men scrambled out 200yds and 2,oooyds respectively downstream. A third was drowned two miles from the bridge, while the fourth was swept downstream clinging to a plank and outdistancing his intending rescuers on either bank. Messages flashed from signal box to signal box along five miles of railway line parallel to the river resulted in men from Camerton, four miles from Brigham, hastily throwing a network of wires and ropes across the stream, but the current swept the man and plank over the barrier. A railway man farther down stood waiting roped to the shore, but the plank approached him burdenless.