LIGHTNING IN BRITAIN
HEAVY DAMAGE CAUSED WORST STORMS WITHIN MEMORY (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright) (Received July 16, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 15. Lightning caused extraordinary havoc during a thunderstorm, at least _2O houses and many chimney stacks being blasted. Numerous fires occurred in London and elsewhere. A Royal Air Force bomber was forced down during the thunderstorm at Melton Mowbray and the pilot and observer injured. A second bomber crashed in flames at Somerset, two passengers and the pilot having miraculous escapes. Weymouth experienced the worst floods for 40 years and children were taken from schools in boats in lowlying districts. Bristol was flooded to a depth of six feet. . At the Leicester County cricket ground, where a sports meeting was in progress, a raging torrent carried away chairs and forms through the bursting of a storm water sewer. The storms were the worst within living memory.
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Southland Times, Issue 23254, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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