A RECORD OF DISASTER.
London, December 23.
Terrific gale's have been experienced along the coast of Great Britain, causing enormous damage to property and many .Specks. >;.'"';
"'. The barque Kirkmichael, 903 tons, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, ran on the rocks at Holyhead.
Eight persons were drowned. express, crowded with [holiday passengers, collided at Chelford with the goods trucks of a luggage train; which had been blown across the line.
Thirteen persons were killed and forty injured. The,driver of the Manchester express saw the lights of the luggage train too late,- and was unable to stop in time to pievbtttrfche collision.
The hurricane has been . unequalled -in severity for many years. The velocity of the wind was 87 miles per hour. Numerous factories were unroofed and houses demolished. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS DROWNED. The coasts are strewn with wrecks, and it is estimated that over 100 persons have been drowned.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 21
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148A RECORD OF DISASTER. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 21
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