TORRENT SWEEPS TOWN
igfcDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL BURSTS . --vi,, Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Sunday, yufe'd the Leads—Liverpool .nal burst at Maghull, near Liverpeol, a torrent 20ft deep swept ,1,, fields, tore up trees, washed „ crops, drowned stock, and Jubirergsd the village under 6ft Hundred* of fish were caught «he streets and many inside the Liisaa. which were invaded by thousands of water-rats.—A. and NX The Leeds and Liverpool canal was nrd In 1816. and is connected by ? n-ihes with the Mersey and with the b * Sea The length of the main cut N, \B7 miles, and with branches, 143 mile*. * «** largely used during the war for L fransport of foodstuffs, coal and muninj to relieve the congestion on the railway*-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 1
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