FLOODS AND WRECKS CAUSED BY STORM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 10

FLOODS AND WRECKS CAUSED BY STORM.

WRECKAGE WASHING ASHORE IN ENGLAND. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, December 31. Extensive flooding is reported from the upper parts of the Thames Valley and in North Wales and the neighbourhood of York. The River Ouse, at York, yesterday, reached its highest point for the past twenty-five years. Thousands of acres of land are flooded by the overflowing of the Ouse, the Derwent and the Foss rivers. Cottage property, buildings, and other premises on the banks of the Ouse have had their basements and grounds flooded, and considerable alarm has been occasioned among the poorer classes at the rapid rate of the rise. As a result of the week-end storm, much wreckage has been washed up at various parts of the English coast. A large ship’s boat was washed ashore yesterday, equipped with provisions, lifebelts, and long ropes. It bore the name Tersonnef. There was nobody in the boat, the sails of which were torn. A derelict wooden vessel laden with timber and floating bottom up, drove ashore against the high cliffs at Scousburgh, in the Shetland Islands. It was impossible to reach the wreck to ascertain the name of the ship, or whether there were any bodies on board. A crippled three-masted motor schooner from Hamburg was seen struggling round the South Foreland, during the gale in the Channel yesterday morning. The vessel was much damaged, but declined assistance.