WAVES TWENTY FEET HIGH.
GRAVE LOSS OF LIFE IN FIERCE STORM IN ADRIATIC.
A violent storm raged on the northern shores of the Adriatic recently, and it is feared that some fifty sailors and fishermen have lost their lives.
Waves twenty feet high reached as far as the Piazza Grande at Trieste, and ships lying in the roads were severely damaged. A Greek vessel foundered, and her crew, said to be twelve in number, perished. The mast of a sailing vessel snapped, killing the skipper. , . 1 Several fishing smacks sank, and it is feared that forty fishermen who were at sea at the time of the storm have perished. In Trieste itself twenty bodies have so far been recovered. The Paris “Journal” on Thursday published the following telegram from Brescia:—“ln the course of a storm a spinnig mill in which some hundred women were emploved collapsed. Eight dead bodies have 'been recovered, and eight are seriosly injured.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3283, 31 July 1911, Page 3
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157WAVES TWENTY FEET HIGH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3283, 31 July 1911, Page 3
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