STORMS IN BRITAIN.
FLOODS AND SHIPWRECKS. United Press Association—By Eiectrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 23rd, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. Heavy gales and snowstorms in the United Kingdom were followed by a rapid thaw. As a result there are torrential floods in Devon and the Severn Valley. Thousands of acres are flooded at Ross Trevor. The London and North-Western Railway steamer is missing on the Irish Sea. She has twenty hands and some passengers aboard The German cargo liner Salatis is ashore at Dungeness. She is valued at £95,000. In a blizzard on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coasts, six vessels were cither wrecked or badly damaged.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13614, 24 December 1909, Page 9
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