FISH CAUGHT IN STREETS
LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BURSTS VILLAGE SUBMERGED. LONDON, February 19. (Received February 20, at 9.5 a.m.). When tho Leeds-Livcrpool Canal burst at Maghull, near Liverpool, a torrent 12011 deep swept flic fields, tore up trees and crops, and drowned tho stock, and submerged the v'llage to a depth of 6ft. Hundreds of fish were caught in the streets and many inside the houses, which were invaded by thousands of water rats, —A. and N'.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 5
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79FISH CAUGHT IN STREETS Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 5
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