GREAT STORMS.
MANY DEATHS
By Telegraph—Brass Association—Copyright London. March 2. Thcro were twenty-five deaths as the result of the gale. Thirty three wrecks occurred. The damage to churches, factories, and farms amounts to hundreds of thousands of pounds. The Dominion liner Merion is ashors at Roche's J'uirit, Queenstown, with ninety passengers aboard, Germany, France, and Holland suffered severely from the gales. New York, March 2. Floods in Pennsylvania inundated an area of fifty-six square miles, throwing idle forty thousand people.
DAMAGE TO TELEGRAPH LINES.
By Telegraph—Press Association - Copyright Received 10.37 p.m., March 4. London, March If. The storm damaged the telegraph linos in every district in England and Wales with the exception of a portion of the south-eastern counties. One wire connected England with Glasgow. Tho heavy hwoll prevented the towing of tho Morton, which remains in a critical position. The passengers remain aboard.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 831, 4 March 1903, Page 3
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144GREAT STORMS. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 831, 4 March 1903, Page 3
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