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Show 35 DEATHS IN EUROPE STORM LONDON, Oct. 28 (U.R One of the worst gales of the season swept the British Isles and northwestern north-western Europe today, paralyzing shipping and causing a death toll that may reach 35. The 2,000-ton cargo steamer Helena Faulbaum from Latvia was i feared lost with her crew of 20 seamen in the 92-mile wind whipping whip-ping the seas into angry fury off the coast of Scotland. Four survivors reached Glasgow. Glas-gow. They said the steamer hud been tossed ashore near Ross of Mull, on the bleak Scottish coast and dashed to pieces. Five bodies were washed onto the beach near Oban, presumably from the Helena Faulbaum. The storm swept across the British Isles and struck the continent con-tinent in the vicinity of Hamburg. A lightship, t'he Elbe I, was reported re-ported lost there with a crew of 15 men. |