PHENOMENAL STORM

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 301, 14 September 1921, Page 5

PHENOMENAL STORM

EXPERIENCED IN ENGLAND

TRAIL OF HAVOC OVER A WIDE AREA

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 12. During the night London experienced a phenomenal thunderstorm, the velocity of the wind being ’ fotry-five miles an hour, and the rainfall the heaviest since June, 1917, Two inches of rain were recorded in some places. It is calculated that the fall ovejr the metropolitan police district totalled sixty-seven million tons. ' The parks are strewn with branches of tiees and the roadway on Rotten Row was nearly cSrried away by the torrents. The'storm was severe on tho coast. Many/ihouses were flooded and damaged, and the orchards in Kent were stripped of fruit. The hurricane left a trail of havoc over a wide area.—Aus.-N’.Z. Cable Assn. THE CLOUDBURST IN TEXAS MORE THAN A HUNDRED BODIES ■ RECOVERED. (Rec. September 13, 10,3]) p.m.) New York, September 12. A telegram from San Antonio 1 states that more than a hundred bodies of th? flood and storm victims have been recovered in the Texan lowlands. The vie-' tims in the city total fifty, whilst fifty people are missing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.