FLOODS IN ENGLAND

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10706, 29 August 1912, Page 5

FLOODS IN ENGLAND

CABLE NEWS

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WORST FOR TWENTY-HVE

YEAfcS

NORWICH RESEMBLES AN IS-

LAND CITY

(Received August 28, 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, August 27

Owing to the floods, Norwich resembles an island city. The railways and telegraphs are interrupted. The flood is the greatest 'for a quarter of a century. Harvest fields ar© submerged.

Many houses in Huntingdon are flooded, and the inhabitants of parts of Leicester are liviing in tho upper stories, the lower stories being invaded by water. ' Thjt-re have been heavy losses of stock in tho Midlands.

AN INCESSANT DOWNPOUR

NORWICH UNDER WATER

THE CITY IN DARKNESS

J (Received Last Night, 9.2-5 o'clock,) 1 LONDON, August 28. Telegrams dated from Norwich on Monday arrived last night, -stating that it bad rained incessantly for seventeen hours. There was several feet of water in many of the streets, and boats were plying. I Hundreds of residents had quitted ' their houses and taken refuge in the I schools on the higher levels, food being conveyed thither. . Business is at a standstill. j ' Tho rainfall for 12 hours was 6.32 inches.

It wag still raining,

The rising waters yesterday stopped tlie majority of tho dynamos, upon .which the electric lighting was dependent, and the city wag plunged in darkness.

Part of tho mound on which the Castle stands was washed away. King's Lynn and East Coast resorts are still isolated.

I Fiu'tliG" foods have occurred in Warwickshire. ' . '' ' ". | A goods train Tell through a col- •• lapsed viaduct at Tottenham. I Several country railway bridges in Norfolk were destroyed.

LATER ADVICES

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS.

WATER FAMINE FEARED

(Received Last Nicht, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, August 28.

Advices received from Norwich on Wednesday state that tho flood wat-ei-ci in the poorer quarters of tho city are thirteen feet deep. Seven thousand persons are home-

loss. 1 A water famine is threatened, the waterworks pumping station being flooded and the machinery useless. The, high reservoir contains a two-days' supply.