SERIOUS FLOODS
CONTINUED DESOLATION. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. Serious floods continue to spread their broad belt of desolation across England and North Wales where the homes are washed out. Families aro marooned and bridges destroyed, disorganising transport. Hundreds of workmen toiled desperately all night after the discovery of the grave danger of the dam at Penyca-1 reservoir collapsing, imperilling thirty thousand. The Derwent overflowed, drowning stock and bringing desolation to thousands of acres, causing the most serious floods in Derby for half a century. Horses drew a Whitby lifeboat three ipiles inland to rescue a women at Raswarp. Hundreds were rescued at Middlesborough by rafts from windows of the upper storeys. Many Leicestershire villages were isolated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 6
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126SERIOUS FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1931, Page 6
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