GALES IN BRITAIN

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1931, Page 5

GALES IN BRITAIN

THIRTEEN LIVES LOST Trail of Havoc (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, August 17. A t.ail of deaih and damage unis been lei)j. by the worst August gale, 20 sea's-. So lar thirttyn deatns are : reported. fc/)iimy wqather iv/,s experience’.! i along tile south coast of England T.o- -! day, wriji high winds and the roughi esc. summer . ieas lor many . years. A bungalow \ iilagc, which has grown up on a shingle beach, near Wincln •- | sua, the old Chnqpe port, has been cut Gif by waves, which threaten to unde rm inc the foun dubious of the buildings. Seven camper s to the Isl? of Wight returning t-u Portsmouth, ios.'ed up for five places in a rowing boat, which wa s overwhelmed by heavy seas, three be>ng drowned. A child was swept off Margate beach by a heavy wave. Henry Robinson aind Henry Aldridge, the latter a well-known and popular labour warkcr, and a clo.ie friend of Mr Lansbury, gallantly rushed in to save the child, but both were drowned.

'Rising without warning, after torrential rains, the river AVhit f > Adder, .swept oiver a dam near Hutton, Berwickshire;, on which eight labourers were working. Four, all Irishmen, in eluding brothers, were carried off ami drowned. A father and twin daughters w re taking refuge in the ancient Finsjthwaitc Tower, which was struck by lightning. *Oi)|C daughter wa s killed, and the others were knocked insensible. A ftiurse and a fourl/?cn-year-old bov were drowned in • a swollen streatm at Haddington, where forty families are homeless ow ng tc floods. Yachts arc sitill pimping in from the Fa itupt race. The Dorado was declared the winner.