London, Oct. 28.
Four persons were killed and much jone by a gale which swept country to-day. communication with Ireland has been severed.
A massive crane with a tripod 160 feet high, which was blown down across Southampton Row, Holborn, rushed a taxi-cab, forming a barrier of wood and iron' wreckage 80 feet, high.
At Bradford a forgo-concrete mill chimney, 180 fect high, collapsed and damaged part of the office and none of them was injured, Considerable Damage Done Reports from the Midlands the North show that the gale w swept the country on Friday ven more fierce there than in the South, where the most severe age done was when a massive crane with a tripod 160 feet high was blown down across. Southampton Row, Holborn, crushing a taxicab fand forming a barrier. of wood ang iron wreckage 80 feet high.
A tidal wave swept up the River Lune in Lancaster and flooded the Luneside Hospital, "Nineteen patio ents were cut off and three drowned, Their corpses were recovered. by. firemen in a boat. The nurses care ied the others upstairs through two feet of water to safety.
Several fatalities occurred elsowhere. There were also many ex-
Serious damage to shipping ace curred all round Britain. Ships were held up at Merseyside, where "the sale reached a velosty of 82 miles or pool felt the full force of the wind and two persons were killed.
The main aerial of the British Broadcasting Ca. blew down in the middle of transmission. Two houses. edllapsed in Many persons have become tem= porarily unemployed at Leigh owing to the damage to works. Thousands of pounds of damage to plate-glass; indows, chimney-stacks and roots was caused at Blackpool, Five families have been rendered homeless at the bottom of Ebbwvale in consequence of their habitations being blown down.
Telephone communication in the most important provincial centres has been affected owing to the blow= ing down of 200 trunk lines. A break between London and. Tetnoy in Lincolnshire stopped the beata wireless to India and Australi, The New Brighton v, Barrow foot ball match had to be postponed owing to the wrecking of the stand,
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