STORMS IN ENGLAND
WORST WITHIN MEMORY
LIGHTNING CAUSES HAVOC
MUCH FLOODING
United Press Association—liy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 16, 2 p.m.) LONDON, July 15. Violent thunderstorms, the worst in living memory, occurred throughout England today. Weymouth 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 sewer. In London lightning struck some houses. Lightning caused extraordinary havoc during the thunderstorm. At least twenty houses and many chimney stacks "were blasted, and there were numerous 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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