GALE-SWEPT ENGLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 9

GALE-SWEPT ENGLAND

BLIZZARD AND RAIN AFTER MILD WINTER PEOPLE RESCUED IN BOATS

LONDON, Monday. An unusually mild winter throughout Britain ended in a bout of wintry weather when spring ought to be coming.

The worst blizzard experienced in North Wales since 1917 resulted in the roads being blocked. Hundreds of motor-cars and omnibuses were embedded in snowdrifts

Thousands of sheep were buried in a snowstorm in the lake district of Northumberland which lasted 24 hours.

Damage estimated at £20,000 was done in the Midlauds, where snow and water caused a culvert to collapse. Many houses were flooded. Terrific rainstorms in the Dublin district flooded many of the coastal areas, necessitating the use of rowingboats to rescue the inhabitants. A heavy snowstorm at Birmingham caused the collapse of the roof of a circus tent on which a great mass of snow had collected. Seventy members of the staff worked feverishly to support the roof. They were forced to run for their lives, and several of them were injured.

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