Worse Than Vestris

More people were killed last week by a deadly European gale and a South American cyclone than went down with the S. S. Vestris.

The gale blew the North Sea against Europe with such force that tides rose three feet higher than usual and ten small steamers swamped and sank with a loss of life estimated at 46. The Swedish freighter Scandsuvia was towed by tugs into Boulogne, France, with her cargo shifted, leaning over almost as far as did the Vestris.

In England a man was blown off London Bridge to drown in the Thames; and the statue of King Richard the Lion Hearted in Old Palace Yard, between the House of Lords and Westminster Abbey, lost His Majesty's sword which the wind snapped off at the hilt. Landsmen's deaths in Europe totaled 25. The South American cyclone slew 41 Argentines, injured 150, swept away 200,000 acres of crops.

Totals: Dead, 112. Vestris dead: 111.