DISTRICTS ISOLATED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22708, 22 October 1935, Page 9

DISTRICTS ISOLATED

GALE HAVOC IN SCOTLAND TELEPHONE LINES WRECKED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, October 19. (Received Oct. 21, at 5.5 p.m.)

The whole of Great Britain tvas ew T ept by gales last night, gusts of 73 and 09 miles an hour being registered at Pembroke and Holyhead respectively. Many districts in Scotland are isolated to-day through trees having been blown across roads or by wrecking telephone lines. DEATH AND HAVOC HEAVY TOLL AT SEA LONDON, October 21. (Received October 22, at 1 a.m.) The gale spread tragedy on land and sea. There have been 10 deaths, including a child who was incinerated when a chimney crashed. A youth and a man were blown from cycles and the youth was buried beneath 20 yards of brick wall. A woman aged 48 collapsed after a buffeting by the winds, and a workman was crushed against a wall when an iron box was blown against him. A Hull city councillor had a narrow escape when a twelve-foot chimney pierced the ceiling and landed on a desk at which he was working. A car was cut in halves by a falling tree in Yorkshire but the driver was not injured. In Sunderland a man was severely injured when ho flung himself over his children to protect them from a collapsing roof. Forty telephone exchanges are completely isolated. All day seven ships systematically searched 100 miles of turbulent ocean fruitlessly seeking the Vardulis’s crew. One vessel reported that 't would have been impossible to launch boats in such a sea and in view of this little hope survives for the crew of ‘37. The Newcastle steamer Pendennis sank off the Dutch coast but the crew of 22 were saved by a Norwegian steamer. The Hull steamer Magrix is aground in 'Yorkshire. The crew walked off at low tide. Four steamers sheltering in an -stuary collided and seriously damaged the Italian steamer Pilsna. The French steamer Auvergne signalled that she was in distress. It is feared that the German steamer Erfurt has been lost, with the crew of 25, because she has not been located since Saturday, when she lost her propellers near Horsrcv. The French steamer Adrar is stranded on a sandbank off Westerland. A German battleship is steaming to her assistance.