Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-17 | Page 1 | 100-Mile Gale Lashes Ships, Killing Seven

MILE 1 OO MlLE GALE LASHES SHIPS KILLING SEVEN SOS OS Signals Flash as Storm Hits Englishe English I e Channel I By United Press I LONDON Sept 17 The 17 the he m st savage hurricane hurricane In the memory of modern mariners was ravaging the south southern rn coasts of E England gland and Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land today raging through the e English English En En- glish gUsh channel chan and across the Bay of Biscay Seven persons including the acting act act- acting acting act act- ing captain n of the steamer Brompton ton Manor anor were reported de dead d. d Nineteen t thousand phone lines have been disrupted including JI in London Mile l Gale Whips sh Ships ps Distressed ships perilously battered battered bat bat- by hy mountainous seas piled plIed up up by a hour milc milc an gale were sending out SOS SOS' calls all ill along alonga a path over mord j than an miles of crowded ship lanes In the entrance to Bristol channel the crippled Elder Dempster steamer steam steam- er Mary Kingsley tons with witha a crew of ot 50 and a fey few passengers rs aboard wallowed dangerously after an night all battle cattle against the storm torm Most of her crew were were injured In Injured injured in- in and everyone on onboard board coard was menaced by the danger of ot a deck cargo of locomotives breaking loose Later In ht th the day the vessels vessel's owners own wn- own own- ers announced Liverpool In that the Mary Kingsleys Kingsley's position had improved Improved Improved Im Im- proved and she w was s on on her way to Falmouth Submarine no Adrift The steamer Brompton Manor 1735 tons bound from tram Cardiff for forthe forthe forthe the timber Umber and carrying a crew of 17 that she was In distress off oft lightship Isle of oC Wight A destroyer and a tug located her this afternoon and began began began be be- gan towing her into P Portsmouth Every craft at at- sea yea between the southeastern coast of ot Ireland and the southwestern coast of ot England was menaced by a derelict submarine submarine submarine rine the obsolete L 52 which broke loose while being towed from Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth Ports Ports- mouth to Wales Vales to be broken broken broken bro bro- ken up for tor scrap The admiralty flashed a warning that was adrift six miles northeast of Lundy island V Word ord came from Folkestone that the French channel turbine packet packet- boat Flamand 2280 tons had been I t forced to take shelter helter there dis dis-