YORKSHIRE FLOODS
BAD OUTLOOK FOR TEST. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at noon.) LONDON, July ,23. The outlook is very bad for the begilining of the test, as it lias been raining continuously nearly all tjhe week. Yorkshire is almost under water. The Australians, from their train windows saw miles of flooded country. There have been serious cloud bursts, causing loss of life in some places. Floods swept through Sleights and Ruswarp villages, where the inhabitants took refuge on roofs, from which coastguards rescued them. A Whitby woman, employed at a riverside camp was torn from her employers grasp and drowned. The river Eslc rose to an unprecedented height and rail traffic has been suspended. Sleights is completely cut off.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 5
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