GALE SWEEPS SCOTLAND
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE SHIPS IN DIFFICULTIES THRILLING RESCUES OF CREWS.
[United Press By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.l (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 19. WIDESPREAD damage has been ’’ caused by a hurricane, which swept across Scotland at 100 miles per hour. Rivers are swollen and telephone poles ■ have been blown down, ;:
Many vessels are in difficulties in the North Sea and several ships are aground on the Dutch coast. Eight vessels are racing to the rescue of 45 members of the crew of the steamer Vardulia, who have been compelled to abandon their ship and take to boats 600 miles north-west of the Hebrides. The ship was bound for Newfoundland.
Residents of the. Cumberland village of Bootle rescued by means of a breeches buoy, 25 members of the crew of the Finnish steamer Esbo, which was driven aground. The storm defeated efforts to use the lifeboats.
Motor craft were wrecked in the River Clyde, and a cyclist, blinded by the storm, and a pedestrian ’ were killed in accidents in Glasgow. The northern air service has been cancelled, and all liners are unable to call at Belfast.
Minor damage was done in England. The wind derailed a Manches-ter-Carlisle . goods train. Further gales are predicted.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1935, Page 5
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