STORMS IN ENGLAND
1 WORST BLIZZARD IN LIVING ! MEMORY. " {PitMßt Association. —COPXKIOHT.) LONDON, March 28. Some towns describe the blizzard now raging as the- worst in living memory. There are snow drifts 20 fteet deep. 1 Trams ana trains are snowed up, and many places in the Midland's are isolat- i °d. ■ •- . : : NIN& DEATHS ON WELSH I / MOUNTAINS. " ; FIVE SAILERS BELIEVED TO BE j " LOST. MUCH DAMAGE IN LONDON. (Rec. March 30, 10.5-a.m.) LONDON, March "29. After redoubling- its intensity in the night the blizzard exhausted itself this morning, after doing "severe* damage in .all parts of Britain. : Nine .meii and hoys • were fopnd dead in the snow on mountains' in South Wales. _ There is widespread railway disorganisation in England, some parts of the north ibeing cut off from London, for 1 14' hours. The services are improving, but it is slow work, owing to. the widespread damage to signalling wires. " Ii is believed that five sailers were lost in Bristol Channel.- • ' Serious floods are threatened in the Thames Valley. There is much damage in London, ( where the storm wss the worst, since . • ißßi.' ' p ;' • - - " ■ "
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Nelson Evening Mail, 30 March 1916, Page 5
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