TEMPEST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 December 1924, Page 5

TEMPEST

BRITISH ISLES SWEPT DAMAGE ON LAND AND SEA. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Jfiauter'a Telegrams.; LONDON, Dec. 28 A tempest, of exceptional violence swept the British Isles, causing much damage on land and sea. All flying services were suspended and channel boats which ventured to leave Folkstono were immediately swept from end to end. The steamship Pilot Light bearing up the Channel, was blown ashore near Barry and left high and dry when the tide receded. She is expected to become a total wreck. Another ship broke from its moorings at Spit-head and was blown across Hie Solent and stranded. The Royal Mail steamer Sarthc sent an S.O.S. from 250 miles from Ushant, in response to Which the Port Darwin, of the Commonwealth Line, and the Royal Mail liner Demarara, rushed up and stood by. Rains, the heaviest for many years, were recorded in Peebleshire. _ The Tweed came down in flood causing the heaviest loss to- stock breeders. The Peebles-Rovers’ football ground was submerged three fet-t. Wales also suffered a torrential downpour, particularly in the Rhymney Valley, where fields, were submerged and pigs drowned. Long sections of railway tracks were- put out of action bv the sea.