DESTRUCTIVE GALE
AMERICAN COAST TWELVE KNOWN TO BE DEAD WIDESPREAD DAMAGE DONE SHIPPING AND PROPERTY By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received October 22, 8.40 p.m.) SEATTLE. Oct. 21 Twelve people are known to be dead and two others are believed to have been lost in a gale which swept the north-west Pacific Coast yesterday. The velocity of the wind was between 80 and 90 miles an hour. Widespread damage to shipping and property was caused. The fishing vessel Agnes foundered off the Washington coast with her crew of five. . There were two other drownings, tne -wreckage of a building killed two, a falling high-tension wire killed two and a falling tree killed a motorist. Two are believed to have been lost when a house fell into the Skagit The liner President Madison (14,000 tons) was torn from her berth at Seattle, crushing three smaller cratt and sinking one.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21938, 23 October 1934, Page 10
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