FURIOUS GALES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13087, 22 October 1935, Page 5

FURIOUS GALES.

WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION.

DISTRESS IN BRITAIN. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 12. The gale which swept Britain over the Aveek-end spread tragedy on land and sea. Ten deaths, including a child who avus incinerated when a chimney crashed. A youth and a man Avere blown from their cycles and the youth Avas buried beneath twenty yards of brick wall. A woman, aged 48, collapsed after buffeting by the winds. 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 the desk at which he Avas working.

A car was cut in halves by a falling tree in Yorkshire, the clriAer being uninjured.

A Sunderland father A\-a.s severely injured when he flung himself over his children to protect them from a collapsing roof. Forty telephone exchanges are completely isolated. All day seven ships systematically searched a hundred miles of turbulent ocean fruitlessly seeking the crew of the Vardulia which was yesterday reported to have foundered. One vessel reported that it would have been impossible to launch boats in such a sea and in A'ieAA* of this little hope survives for the . crew of 3*. The Newcastle steamer Pendcnnis sank off the Dutch coast and the ■crew of 22 were saved by a Norwegian steamer.

The Hull steamer Magrix is aground, the Yorkshire crew walking off at low tide. Four steamers sheltering in the Elbe estuary collided and seriouslv damaged the Italian steamer Pilsna.

The French steamer Auvergne signalled that she was in distress and the German steamer Erfurt is feared to have been lost with a crew of 25 because •she has not been located since Saturday when she lost her .propel 1 ors near Hcrarev. The Hall steamer Magrix is aground on a sandbank off Westerland and a German battleship is steaming to her assistance.

More districts in Scotland are isolated through trees having been blown across the roads or by the AATecking of telephone lines.