REMARKABLE STORM EFFECT.
A CHANNEL PLOUGHED IN !A ■ LANCASHIRE MOOR. After a thunderstorm recently, a channel nearly 50 yards in length and from six to seven feet deep was found torn in the moorland between Bury and Haslingdcn. It is , said in the district that a thunderbolt fell and was followed by a cloudburst. Masses of .earth weighing in some cases two tons were washed many yards away. Meeting higher ground, .the water was divided into two or three channels, but it was still forcible enough to wash down a wall above Red Lees Farm, tenanted by Mr ,T. Kay. This fortunately diverted the water again, otherwise the farm must have been Hooded. For a considerable area, the ground is like a swamp, and among the debris are the roots of trees which must have been growing when the moorland was part pf the Forest of Holcombe. ' The trunk of an oak tree some 15ft long has been unearthed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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159REMARKABLE STORM EFFECT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 27, 25 September 1912, Page 7
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