SWEPT INTO FLOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1032, 24 July 1930, Page 11

SWEPT INTO FLOOD

VILLAGERS GET SAFETY ON ROOF-TOPS WEEK’S RAIN IN ENGLAND Reed. 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Wed. Serious floods are being experienced as it has been raining continuously nearly all the week. There have been serious cloud bursts, causing loss of life in some places. Floods swept through the villages of Sleights and Ruswarp, where the inhabitants took refuge on the roofs, from which coastguards rescued them. A woman employed at Riverside camp was torn from her employer's grasp and drowned. The river Eak rose to an unprecedented height and rail traffic has been suspended. Sleights is completely cut off.

TEST PROSPECTS POOR RECD. 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Wed. The outlook for the fourth cricket Test between England and Australia on account of the weather is gloomy. Yorkshire is almost under water. The Australians from the train windows saw miles of flooded country. At Chapman’s request, owing to the unfertainty of the weather, Goddard, of Gloucestershire, has been invited to be present at Manchester. The match between the Australian cricketers and Durham at Sunderland has been abandoned owing to rain. There was heavy rain again today and play was impossible, as was the case yesterday. Rain has also been falling at Manchester for four hours, and there are signs of continuance, but the weather experts predict a clearance before the Test match, which will be begun on Friday.