WIND AT FALMOUTH REACHES VELOCITY OF 94 MILES AN HOUR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 1

WIND AT FALMOUTH REACHES VELOCITY OF 94 MILES AN HOUR.

CONTINUANCE OF GALES FORECAST BY METEOROLOGIST

(Received December 7. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 6.

Nineteen lives were lost at sea in yesterday’s great gale and seven deaths due to the storm occurred on land while there were many cases of injury and scores of narrow escapes. Three Dublin fishermen were G. vned within a few hundred yards of Dub lin during the storm. The wind reached its g—Vest velocity at Falmouth, where gusts of 94 niles an hour were registered. Air, steamboat and railway services were, in varying degrees, interrupted the storm and telephone communication was dislocated, although no town wc.- isolated. One hundi d twentyeight main trunk lines were out of order and 1000 London sut.lines were down. Flooding in many parts of the country became worse yesterday owing to heavy rV and many roadways were temporarily submei^ed. The position in the Thames Valley is being watched with some anxiety. The river rose further yesterday and the level is expected to be higher ~uy. The survivors of the Frances Dun can refer to the gallantry of Captain Blaylock and the crew of the Adele Marie, and to the superb seamanship with which she was handled. They stated that while he manoeuvred to get near the capsized steamer, the Adele Marie was not only continuously in grave da.nger from the mountainous seas, which swept over her, but had to get perilously near to the rocks. The Adele Marie had to make many attempts before she could get a line to the five men clinging to the keel of the wreck and immediately they had been taken off the wreck sank. The survi vors included the captain, who was unable to swim. The weather forecast promises severe southerly gales, particularly in the southern Irish Sea. English Channel and southern North Sea.