ENGLAND’S SOMMER.
FLOODS HOLD UP TRAINS. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 27. The. floods have severed railway communication with Norwich (where the rainfall yesterday was 6in). An express is held up at King’s Lynn, and others are at a standstill, the floods extinguishing the engine fires. The branch railways to Mendesley, Sherringham, and (Vomer are closed. The Nene valley is flooded. Thiopstet has been transformed into an island, and the Corby tunnel is inundated. Two eastern coast wheat exporters at Bristol motored through the district. Thev report that every field shows out badly, and many are irretrievably damaged. The conditions are equally bad at Vale and the fop of Cbtswold, due to several days’ rain and the high temperatures. NORWICH AN ISLAND. MANY HOUSES FLOODED. LONDON. August 27. (Received August 28. at 11.50 a.m.) Tie city of Norwich resembles an island. AH the city railways and telegraphs are interrupted. The pre'ent is the greatest flood for 25 years. Harvest fie'ds are sub merged, and many houses in Huntingdon are flooded, while the inhabitants in parts of Leicester are living in the upper stories, the lower being invaded by water. There are heavy stock in the Midlands.
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Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 6
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198ENGLAND’S SOMMER. Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 6
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