FLOODS N ENGLAND.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 12

FLOODS N ENGLAND.

MANY FAMILIES MAROONED

EXCITING SCENES IN CORNWALL

A 10 hours’ downpour of rain,' culminating in a violent gale, led to exciting flGod scenes in Cornwall last month. Many people were marooned in their houses, with floods lour feet deep on the ground floors. In one villiage a torrent 3ft, deep rushed down the main street. Inhabitants of the villiage Portreath, near Redruth, were awakened early in the morning by the sound of rushing torrents in the main street. Flood waters from the surrounding districts poured into Portreath. Many houses were floqded 4ft. ' deep and the roads were impassable. No cars could , leave or enter the villiage. Th e Wesleyan chapel was inundated with 3ft. of water and silt. Other places badly flooded in the district were Lanner and Tuckingmill where the floor of the Wesleyan chapel was several feet under water. Torrential rain fell in St Ives. Houses in. the upper. Stenhack ‘were flooded, and a quantity of' furniture was destroyed. Several people were removed through the .windows to safety. Mud to a depth of several feet accumulated in the dwellings. Great damage- was done by flood at Truro. Torrential rain caused the ltiver Allen to overflow/ and about 50 houses were flooded. About 4 o'clock fu the morning occupiers of houses in the low-lying portions of the city discovered their, plight, and it was six hours later before they were able to come downstairs.

Scores of people were unable to go to work, and it was impossible for them to prepare food until midday. Hie front part of an hotel was washed out, and jars of spirit and bottles of ale were washed into the street. About a hundred fowls were drowned. It is more than thirty years since a similar Hood was experienced in Truro. „ r l'he severest storm Jersev has known for many years swept over the island, leaving a trail of destruction. -The wind blew at 70 miles an hour. A big chimney stack crashed-through the roof of a boarding- house at St. Tlelier and 1500 ieet of glass houses were blown down at St. Saviour’s Chateau ClaivA l a : r ge corrugated iron shed was liftbcl bodilv over a greenhouse on the read at -St. Quens, while a lad was blown into the harbour at St Helier.