STORM IN ENGLAND
A TRAIL OF HAVOC. MANY HOUSES FLOODED. Frees ’Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 12. Daring the night London was swept by a phenomenal thunderstorm. The wind attained a velocity of 45 miles an hour. The rainfall is tine heaviest since June, 1917, 2in being recorded in some places. It is calculated that the fall over the metropolitan police district totalled 67,000,0CX) tons of water. The parks were strewn with branches of trees, and the roadway in Rotten Row was nearly carried away by the torrent. The storm was severe on the coast. Many houses were flooded and damaged, and orchards in Kent were stripped of fruit. The hurricane left a trail of havoc over a wide area.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18350, 14 September 1921, Page 5
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