FORTH & CLYDE CANAL BURSTS
TOWN OP CLYDEBANK FLOODED
HEAVY XD AM AGE; NO CASUAL*? TIES. (REUTERS TELEGRAM.) (Received August 18, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, 17th August. The Forth'and Clyde Canal burst at Clydebank. . . .
Great volumes of water poured into the town, flooding the streets to a depth of three feet, the shops, houses,1 and shipyards. " There were many exciting: ■ scenes. Horse-drawn lorries were used as ferries. The floods are now controlled, The damage is heavy, but there are no casualties. [The ..Forth, and Clyde Na.vigation Canal runs from Bowling on the- Clyde, through the north-western part of Glasgow and through Eirkintilloch and FalKirk to Grangemouth on the Forth, a distance of thirty-five miles. Crydebant is five miles north-west of Glasgow. > The canal was authorised in 1767, and opened • from sea to sea. in 1790.']
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 42, 18 August 1916, Page 7
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