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Show BIG STORM SWEEPS OVER BRITISH ISLES 'Considerable Loss of Life and Much Damage; Several Steamers Strike Mines. LONDON, Dec. 29, 3:10 a. m. A great tra le and .snowstorm swept over t he larger part of Omit Britain and Ireland last nicht, resulting in considorablo loss of I life and niurli damase. The telocraphic service on the continent was disorgan- I ized and communication with KiuiKe wu,s 1 almost severed. , One man was killed and hp vera 1 per- I sons were Injured h- tlie collapse of a house wall at 'lapham. Kh-ewhere. in London plate-luss windows were Mown out and properly was damaeed in othrr way.. Two feet of snow fell In mam-parts mam-parts of the country, causing serious flooding of rlvprs. Dublin experienced the heaviest snowfall snow-fall in many years. Several disasters, the result of striking mines in . the North sea, ave reported. A mon p t hose sunk a re tlie tit earner I.-inai'ia., whose crew way rescued, and h Glasgow steamer. The Linaria". whh-h was ol SJ1 tons register, belonged to the Slap line of North Shields. She" was built In mi. |