VIOLENT STORMS
Worst in Memory in England HAVOC BY LIGHTNING London, July 15. Violent thunderstorms, the worst in living memory, occurred throughout England to-day, Meymouth experienced much flooding among shops and houses. Dorcester, Dartmouth, and Bristol had similar experiences, while at the Leicestershire county cricket ground a torrent several feet deep carried away chairs and forms as a result of the bursting of a storm-water ■ over. In London lightning struck some houses. Lightning caused extraordinary havoc during the thunderstorm. At least 20 houses and many chimneystacks were blasted, and there were many fires in London and elsewhere. A Royal Air Force bomber was forced down during the thunderstorm at Melton Mowbray, the pilot and his observer being injured. A second bomber crashed in flames in Somerset. The two passengers and the pilot miraculously escaped. The Weymouth floods were the worst for 40 years. Children were taken from the schools in boats. Low-lying districts at Bristol were flooded to a depth of six feet.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 11
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