HOMELAND FLOODS
WEEK’S HEAVY RAIN
YORKSHIRE SUFFERS MOST
[BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
■ (Recd. July 24, 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 23.
The outlook is very bad for the beginning of the fourth Test, as it has been raining continuously nearly all the week.
Yorkshire is,, almost under water. The Australians, from the train windows, saw miles of flooded country. There have been serious cloud bursts, causing loss of life in some places. Floods swept through Sleights and Ruswarp villages, where the inhabitants took refuge on the roofs, from which the coastguards rescued them.
A Whitby woman, employed at a riverside camp, was torn from her employer’s grasp and drowned.
The River Esk rose to an unprecedented height, and rail traffic has been suspended. Sleights is completely cut off.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1930, Page 5
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