GALE’S TOLL
ELEVEN LIVES LOST.
HILLSIDE GIVES WAY. FAMILIES LEAVE HOME. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 14. The toll of the damage done in .Monday’s gale cannot yet be fully estimated. It. was thought that only three lives had been lost in the fishing disaster, but the latest information indicates there were 11 deaths. Many of the boats engaged in fishing now carry wireless sets, and a broadcast warning of the approaching storm enabled some of them to haul in their nets in tiine.N The disaster has not caused a general stoppage of fishing, and many boats put to sea yesterday.
On land great damage has been done bv floods, notably in the Rhondda Valley, in South Wales. A large part of a hillside at Pontygraith gave way owing to the inundation yesterday. Fissures five feet wide and 70 feet long Tvcrc discovered in the breast of the hillside, and a wdiole mass of thousands of tons of earth is moving steadily downwards. Ten families occupying houses in the direct path of the landslide were yesterday ordered to leave their houses immediately. Record rainfall for England and Wales mere recorded at Pontypridd, iwhere 8.3 inches fell in 24 hours. On the upper reaches of the 'Severn bridges have been destroyed. Heavy losses of live stock and crops are reported from Staffordshire and Lancashire.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 5
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