SWEPT BY FLOOD

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1933, Page 7

SWEPT BY FLOOD

GIRL’S DASH FOR LIFE

CLOUDBURST IN WALES

Furniture floating through doors, a car sailing into fields, potato crops

covering the railway—these were tiie amazing results of cloud-burst havoc at Dyffryn-on-Sea, near Barmouth, Wales, a few weeks ago. Floods swept through the waiting room of the Great Western Railway cation, and the riailway track was flooded to a depth or several feet. Potatoes and other crops from fields adjoining the station were swept on to the platform and track. The Barmouth and Dyffryn main road was flooded to a depth of 4ft and sft. A garage was completely wrecked by the force of the. water, and a car inside the garage floated into the fields. Bloulders weighing four and five hundredweigh were washed down from the mountain side.

] A mothe*r and daughter, Mrs Hum--1 plireys and Betty Humphreys, Coedcoch Farm, had (an alarming experience. They were awakened by the inrush of floods, which surrounded the bed. The daughter rushed in her nightI dress to the police station. A constable j called for volunteers and rushed to the scene.

j ‘‘We entered the house,” the policeman said, “through the window, and found the bed and bedroom contents floating around in about sft of water. The furniture in other rooms was floating around, and the contents of the j kitchen was ‘floating out through the ! door. The mother was removed to ■ safety, and with difficulty we managed to remove some old family possessions and clothing.”