DISASTROUS GALES IN ENGLAND.
Loss of Life and Damage to Property.
(Received January 15, at 5.20 p.m.) London, January 15. ' A gale made a gap of 150 yards long in the Llanfair-feohan sea wall. The Liverpool express train had a narrow esoape, being stopped olose to the «ap. The lighthouse at Port Cowl, Glamorganshire, was destroyed, and several steeples and faotory stacks collapsed. Altogether fifteen persons were killed during the gale. Immense seas struck the Manchester goods train at Llanfair-feohau, a seaside resort in Carnarvonshire, drowning tht driver and stoker.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9643, 16 January 1899, Page 2
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90DISASTROUS GALES IN ENGLAND. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9643, 16 January 1899, Page 2
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