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' According to the accounts of old residents Sunday's flood was the greatest ' on record at Meriot. During the previous week rain fell in small quantities nearly every day, but-on Sunday it ' commenced to fall in earnest. " All ' Saturday night rain fell in torrents, and on Sunday morning the Henot Burn liad swollen- beyond all. former limits, the main road being covered with water iu many places to a depth of two feet. Soon after mid-day people who were living iu the low lvijig parts .began .to pack lip the floor coverings and make preparations to get out of thair houses before being shut in by the flood.- One inhabitant, on looking fot his milk cows, discovered them isolated on a small patch of ground in the middle of the burn. "Various methods ■ Wfere tried to 'get them .ashorej and fin} ■ally they were resetted- by a, ma® crossing over to the island in a raft -made of a. pig trough an'djfour empty petrol j tins. He drove them into tlie vjater,

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Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 93, 5 June 1917, Page 7

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Untitled Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 93, 5 June 1917, Page 7

Untitled Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 93, 5 June 1917, Page 7

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