GREAT GALE IN BRITAIN
MANY LIVES LOST.
COMMUNICATIONS INTERRUPTED.
TOWN PNUNDATED
(Australian and «.Z. Cable Asre.)
LONDON, Oct. 30. More than 20 lives were lost through a great gale which was experienced in England at the week-end. Accidents of many descriptions occurred.
The telephone and. telegraph wires are down in all directions and broadcasting and beam wireless services are dislocated. The sea defences broke down at Fleetwood, Lancashire, where the streets were flooded and five persons were drowned. Many homes were destroyed and numerous people slept in schools and cinemas. The River Lune overflowed its banks and flooded the Lancaster isolation hospital. Three tuberculosis patients who were sleeping in the grounds were drowned. Six houses were unroofed at Blackpool.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17243, 31 October 1927, Page 7
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