BURSTING OF A WATERSPOUT IN WALES.

Kumara Times, Issue 3124, 6 November 1886, Page 3

BURSTING OF A WATERSPOUT IN WALES.

Extraordinary devastation was wrought by the bursting of a waterspout at Swansea, in Wales. It travelled from the bay, and when passing over Kilvey Hill, some height above the level of the sea, it suddenly burst. A scene of awful grandeur ensued. A torrent rushed down the hill with irresistible force, carrying everything before it. Huge boulders went crashing through the houses in Foxhole, a small village built at the base. Women and children were carried off their feet by the rush of water, and several had narrow escapes. Two children were almost buried by tbe debris and had to be dug out, A man named Stephens was washed along for 200 yards, when he managed to grasp a lamp post and save himself. A woman was carried by the avalanche into her house, where she was afterwards found up to the shoulders in debris, and shockingly injured. Many of the houses were entirely denuded of furniture. One old man lost a stocking containing £25. After the storm Foxhole and Kilvey roads were covered with earth ami stones to the depth of 6ft. Hundreds of men were engaged next day clearing the rubbish away. Many people are houseless.