GALE SWEEPS BRITAIN.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2544, 29 November 1924, Page 7

GALE SWEEPS BRITAIN.

Several Wrecks on English Coast <»

WELSH MINE FLOODED, 9

MEN ENTOMBED.

[By Electric Cable—Copyright I '[Aust and N.Z. Cable Association. I (Received Friday 7 p.m) LONDON. November 27.

England has been swept ,by a sixty miles an hour gale, causing much damage and terrific seas in the channel.

The Small steamer Hartley burst her hatches and sank. The whole <A the crow except two were drowned. The channel steamer Dieppe was Stranded in darkness inside the Newhaven breakwater. A tug going to het assistance foundered but the crew Was rescued afterwards. The Dieppe’s 65 pasesngers were rescued. The steam drifter Presholme was driven ashore on a precipitous coast. The Port Letheh broke up in ten minutes, and five Of the crew -were drowned. Three took refuge on a Wave-swept rock and Were heroically rescued by fishermen. A man named Craig, aged 72, who leaped from tne rock -with a line hauled them to safety ‘Many small craft were in peril during the storm. There were a number of thrilling lifeboat rescues. MINE SUDDENLY FLOODED. SEVENTY MEN ESCAPE, TEN TRAPPED. (Received Friday 9.10 p.m) LONDON, November 23. The “Daily Express” reports that nine miners are imprisoned in a flooded mine near Swansea. A sudden inrush of water occurred in the Dunvant Colliery late last night. It is believed to be due to the storm and heavy rains. Seventy men succeeded in escaping, many wading waist deep to the shaft. One miner was brought to the surface dead, and the nine remaining are known to be in a most inaccessible part of the working ano their retreat cut off. Survivors report black damp is present, Falls from the roof followed the flood, and communication With the colliery is most difficult, as the -wires were blown down by the storm, NORTH WIND VISITS CASPIAN ■SEAi HEAVY FISHING FATALITIES. (Received Friday 7.30 p.m) MOSCOW, November 27. Forty-eight lives and fifteen hundred fishing boats were lost in a storm on the Caspian Sea and seven hundred fishing boats are reported still to be struggling to gain exit from the ice. A special rescue expedition is being organised.