Tragedy on Land and Sea

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 249, 22 October 1935, Page 7

Tragedy on Land and Sea

Devasting Work of Furious

Gale

TWO SHIPS LOST; MANY IN DISTRESS

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, Midnight LONDON, Oct. 21.

The galo which swept Britain over the week-end spread tragedy on lnnd and sea. Ten deaths, included a child who was incinerated when a chimney crashed. A youta and a man were blown from their cycles and the youth was buried beneath twenty yards of brick wall.

A woman, aged 48, collapsed aftor buffeting by the winds. A workman was crushed against a wall .wheu an iron box was blown against him. A Hull city councillor had a narrow cscapo when a twolve foot chimney pierced the ceiling and landed on the desk at which he was working. A car was cut in halves by a falling treo in Yorkshire, the driver being uninjured. A Sunderland father was severely injured when ho ffuug himself over his children to protect them from a collapsing roof. Forty telephone exchanges are completely isolated. All* day seven ships systematically searched a hundred miles of turbulent ocean fruitlessly seeking the crew of the Vardulia which was yesterday reported to have foundered. One vessel reported that it would havo been impossible to launch boats in such a sea and in view of this lit tle hope survives for tho crew of 37.

The Newcastle steamer Pcndcnuis sank off the Dutch coast and tho crew of 22 were saved by a Norwegian steamer.

TheHullsteamcr Magrix is aground, tho Yorkshire crew walking off at low tide.

Four steamers sheltering in tho Elbe estuary collided and seriously damaged the Italian steamer Pilsna. Tho French steamer Auvergne signalled that she was in distress aud the German steamer Erfurt is feared to havo been lost with a crew of 25 because she has not been located since Saturday when she lost her propellers near Horarev.

The Hull steamer Magrix is aground, ed on a sandbank off AVcsterland aud a German battleship is steaming to hor assistance.

Many districts in Scotland are isolated through trees having been blown across tho roads or by the wrecking of telcphono lines.