A NIGHT OF TERROR.
SEA INVADES HOLIDAY BUNGALOWS. BRITAIN SWEPT BY WEEK-END STORM. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4; Britain was swept by storms and gales during the past 24 hours. Two hundred people spent a night of terror at Winehelsea, when mountainous seas broke an embankment, flooded sixty holiday bungalows, and isolated 150 of them. The water was so rough that it was impossible for boats to reach the houses. Women and children screamed in terror. Some tried to wade to safety, risking injury by the submerged barb-ed-wire fences. Others climbed roofs, where they remained until the tide abated. Motorists focussed their headlights on the desolate scene, assisting the rescuers. The same area was flooded last November. The sea is encroaching fifty feet annually at this point.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1932, Page 5
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133A NIGHT OF TERROR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1932, Page 5
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