TEMPEST TRAIL
ELEVEN FISHERS DROWNED. DEVASTATION INLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, November 16. The toll of life'taken in Monday 's gale cannot yet be fully estimated. It was thought that only three lives had been lost in the disaster to the North Sea fishing fleets, but latest information indicates that there were eleven deaths.
Many of the boats engaged now carry wireless sets, and a broadcast warning *of the aproaching storm enabled 'some of them to haul in their nets in time.
The disaster has not caused a general stoppage of fishing and many of the boats put to sea on Wednesday. On land great damage has been done by floods, notably in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. A large part of a hillside at Pontygraith gave jvay owing to the inundation on Wednesday. Fissures sft wide and 70ft long were discovered in the face of the hillside, and a whole mass of thousands of tons of earth moved steadily downwards.
Ten families occupying houses ill the direct path of the landslide were on Wednesday ordered to leave their houses immediately.
A record rainfall for England and Wales was recorded at Pontypridd, where, B.3in was registered in 24 hours. On the upper reaches of the Severn two bridges have been destroyed. Heavy losses of livestock and crops are reported from Staffordshire and Lancashire.
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Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5
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