NO WARNING OF DISASTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 127, 1 June 1920, Page 5

NO WARNING OF DISASTER.

SOME PATHETIC INCIDENTS

&«s«*r»lian' and N.Z. Cah?.<? (Received May 31, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. Louth is a pleasant Lincolnshire town lying at the foot of the hills on the edge of a flat, marshy plain; The cloudburst occurred on the hills a few miles distant. '■■■- Most ,of the townspeople were driven indoors by the rain. Many were at tea. There was no warning of the disaster, as the rainfall locally was not excessive. The flood waters burst in at the doors and windows of the houses, and many victimes were trapped on the ground floors. One woman escaped by climbing the chimney. Three children were tea with , : their mother.,, They mounted higher'andhigter to avoid the rising water,*'un/til 'lv^/ t were compelled to cling to-.a curtain, pple. Then they either from '■, exhaustion or the pole''collapsed; ;knd all the children^',T?€)re, drowned.' The chief. policy, ,pificer attended at the telephone., continuously> for three hours, standing in four feet of water.