STORMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12724, 21 February 1910, Page 3

STORMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

GALES AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. MUCH DAMAGE' REPORTED. TRAIN BLOWN OVER EMBANK- ; . '■; ment. miraculous escapes. [Press Association— Copyright.] (Received Feb 20, 5 p.m.) London, Feb 19. pales are raging in Britain and Ireland, and the velocity of the wind is over seventy miles an hour in come places. Much damage has been done at -Preston and Birmingham. There have been torrential rains at Carlisle. , A train iv Ireland was blown over a (twelve feet embankment, but the couplings held, and some of the waggons were suspended. The passengers had miraculous escapes. ,