STORM IN BRITAIN
LIGHTNING AND HAIL DAMAGE AT WEMBLEY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 23. A destnidi m thunderstorm thioughont the night stretching from the pyrennes to the Scottish Highlands did widespread damage mving to the unusually large .hailstones. Floods occurred throughout the country, and 200 families in Birmingham, who were flooded out, escaped in their night clothes. Several houses collapsed.' Lightning destroyed the tower of the Canadian pavilion at Wembley, and the falling debris knocked out the side of the pavilion. Rain damaged the exhibits. Several persons wore killed by lightning.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable. -■
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Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 4
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94STORM IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 4
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