GALE HAVOC
SEVERAL LIVES LOST FATHER AND CHILDREN SUFFOLK COAST TRAGEDY LARGE AREAS FLOODED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Dee. 15. Considerable damage was done, both on land and sea, as the result of a gale which raged over Britain yesterday, reaching a velocity of 76 miles an hour. Several lives were lost, including those of a father, son and daughter who leaped overboard from a. stranded motor boat, off the Suffolk coast-. The only survivor was another daughter, 14 years old, who was too timid to follow the others into the sea. Several ships were in distress during the storm, which did not moderate until late last, night,. The gale was accompanied by heavy rainfall and at Ambleside in the Lake District, 3.2’m were recorded in 24 hours. Some mills of the Lancashire and Yorkshire valleys were flooded. An engine and four goods vans and a passenger coach on a train on the Lon-don-Midlund-Scollish line were derailed near Kendal owing to a landslide. There was serious flooding in North Wales. In Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire many roads were rendered impassable.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19199, 16 December 1936, Page 6
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183GALE HAVOC Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19199, 16 December 1936, Page 6
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