BRITISH FLOOD HAVOC

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 23 May 1932, Page 7

BRITISH FLOOD HAVOC

WIDE TRAIL OF DAMAGE t CLOUDBURST CAUSES TERROR WRECKAGE AT LEICESTERSHIRE. WALLS AND WINDOWS CRASH. ! . United f’ivss Association —By Electric -Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m., to-day. LONDON, May 22. Widespread rains of tropical violence have caused floods throughout Britain. Over 300,000,000 tons of water fell on the Thames watershed during the week-end. The biggest cloudburst within memory brought a night of terror in the Leicestershire town of Ashby-de-la-Zoucli t where the water depopulation in their homes and caused shop windows, imprisoned half the population' in thei rhoriies and caused damage estimated at thousands of pound's. The inhabitants of Rugby were left in the plight of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” when the floods injured the waterworks, stopping the worst floods for half a century are reported from Oxfordshire Barrels of ale were washed into the streets at Stakesby. Telephonic and telegraphic communications were interrupted in many districts .and cattle, pigs and poultry were killed.