FLOODS IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 9

FLOODS IN ENGLAND

THAMES STILL RISING. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. (Received January 7, at noon,) The Thames continued to rise during yesterday, and in the afternoon its level at Shepperlon lock was the highest recorded there for thirty-three years. A further fall ol 800 tons of earth has delayed the reopening of the Southern Railway line between Merstham and Coulsdou. It is hoped that normal traffic will he resumed on Monday. TERRIFIC GALES FOLLOW STORW3

HAVOC REPORTED IN COUNTRYSIDE THREE DEATHS REPORTED. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. LONDON, January G. (Received January 7, at 1.5 p.m.) Britain’s experiences of unusual weather have now been increased by a daylong hurricane, the wind blowing at the rate of from 60 to 85 miles hourly, suspending the cross-Channel air services and turning the flooded districts of the Thames Valley into a stormtossed sea. It is difficult to manoeuvre the boats, which arc the only means of transport. Widespread damage has been (lone over the whole country. Hoardings, chimneys, and masonry were blown down, trees uprooted, windows blown in, and telephones disorganised. Thirteen persons were injured in London. Some people found a child crying beside the debris of a wall that was blown down at Kiibnrn. Search revealed the mother dead. At Belfast eight persons were seriously injured. Th gale fanned the flames of a farmhouse fire in Somerset. The parents were trapped and incinerated after lowering their children and the grandmother (who had her leg fractured) from a window.