THAMES OVERFLOWS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 9

THAMES OVERFLOWS

LONDON UNDER iWATER FOURTEEN DROWNED The combination of a high tide and flood water from the upper reaches resulted in the Thames overflowing ita banks on its course through London. Large riverside areas suffered, and fourteen people are reported to have been drown-, ed mostly in the basements of buildings near the river. (United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, 6th January. After a blizzard and floods British people were beginning to think this winter rather exceptional, when the country yesterday was swept by a great gale, and at least five people were killed any many injured. There was also widespread damage. The wind swept over Spurn Head at 85 miles an hour. It was much more moderate in London, but a gust of 53 miles an hour was recorded at Kew. A woman was killed by the collapse of a wall at Kilburn; a roof was blown off a house and killed a cyclist at Northampton; a little girl was struck on the head by a packingcase blown from a van, and died at Peterborough; and a motor-cyclist was blown from his machine and killed at Bromley. Telephone poles arid wires are down everywhere. The P. and O. steamer Bazmak, leaving Tilbury Dock for Bombay, was blown against the Mooltan. Skilful seamanship resulted in only a slight grazing of the Eazmak's bridge.