ANGRY WATERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10605, 2 June 1920, Page 5

ANGRY WATERS

LINCOLNSHIRE FLOODS

SCENES OF DESOLATION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian ant! N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 1, 1Q.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 31. Horncastle; twelve- miles southwest of Louth, was isolated from Saturday until to-day, the roads being flooded to a depth of five feet and the railways aro impassible. Great damage was done 1 to property,, but no lives were lost. , Pedestrians -in the,.Manchester district only saved themselves 'on the' high roads by swimming' with the flood waters. " ""' _ ' ""' "

There, is terrible desolation in Louth. Tons of debris is lying everywhere amidst black mud, including motor-cars, rjianos and bedding. Several children were trapped on tho ground floor,, qf a. house. The mother vainly tried to save them bypiling up the furniture and putting them on top. In another case a mother made her children climb on a high dresser and hang on to hooks in tho ceiling. AVhen the dresser collapsed throe children-let go the hooks and were drowned. The mother'and one child, were saved. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £250,000. - • LONDON, May 31. The damage at Louth, where n. cloudburst caused great haypc, is estimated at £250,000. Oyer .seyen hundred people.are homeless._ Tho riter rose ten feet., in, forty minutes, and swept through"the'town at forty miles on hour. About a thousand houses were damaged. . '_. ,