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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

DISASTROUS CLOUD-BURST. were lifted from their foundations and their contents deposited hundreds of yards away.

AN ENGLISH VILLAGE

OVERWHELMED,

RELIEF MEANTURES, Roads were blocked with de- The little town of Louth, in thebris, houses partially demolished, Lincolnshire Fen district, was bridges swept away, and one half of the town isolated from the other. The body of one woman

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U S. DEMOCRATS.

INTEMPERATE TEMPER-

ANCE

One of the features of the UV, A. Democratic Convention was the

inundated last month by

powerful address by Mr. William Jennings Bryan in support of his tremendous food, and 22 persons was washed up in the grounds of Bone Dry" amendment to the were drowned.

To all appearance the disaster the Mayor's residence, which

With the was caused be a cloudburst, the was in the path of the inundation,port of the Committes on Re

tion upside down." little river which flows through and many old and helpless people solutions. It turned the Coaren have bean rendered temporarily

force of his magnetism and the town being converted into a

homeless, In several devastanng Blood. houses the water rose practically to the ceiling, the people being A chance of tapped without saving their lives. Houses and bridges were swept away, and it is estimated that 1,000 people are homeless.

had been r

vention.

Relief measures were promptly rasary he started one of the greatest and noisiest demonstra- organised by the Town Council tion yet seen in the Convention and citizens. All through the night rescue work and the hall, a demonstration that lasted covery of the bodies proceeded, twenty-three cheering minutes &t and in Louth itself at ten o'clock the conclusion of his speech.

The band and the great audit- on Sunday morning no less than orium organ played while the da-

monstration lasted, the delegates: A phenomenal rain fall was also twenty bodies experienced in other parts of covered.

It was believed that this did resisting all efforts to get them England. Forty yards of the rail-

Mr. Bryan, standing way on the main London and not represent the whole of the back to the basins of the con lass of life, even in the town milling in the light on the right North Western line between self, and reports from the sur-edge of the speaker's platform. Preston and Lancashire were rounding districts rendered it with tears of emotion coursing swept away.

that fatalities had probable

down his cheeks, regarded the A SOLID WALL OF WATER. occurred in villages on the course It appears that the cloud-burst of the steam. Hundreds bave procession of prohibitionists, who tore up their Stato standards. which was responsible for the been rendered temporarily home-starting the moving delegates in flood took place some 15 miles less in the town, where the Cor-columa about the hall. There away from Louth, and the torrent poration and inhabitants general- gathering force along the valley, ly have provided food and shelter. were a number of fights over the standards, some of the delegates solid wall of water, estimated One fireman was drowned.

refusing to permit them to enter to have been from 12 to 15 feet

the parada and the standards of California and Alabama were

Among incidents of the floods is one of somewhat remarkable The Erst obstacles in the way character. A white pig was notic

in height struck the town.

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were two cottages in James'sed to be floating on a piece of tattered in the struggles which our office to No. 33 Queen's Road be celebrated on Sunday 15th Tuesday the 20th to Wednesday five roomed honse (furnished or Street These dwellings were cut timber, when a black pig fought centred around them. clean away as with a giant knife, fit for the place, and ultimately and no trace of them or of their beat its white rival. occupants remains to-day.

WHAT CAUSED IT?

Mr. Bryan, on the platform, lifted the standard of Nebraska above the others, while the crowd ROYAL SYMPATHY.

cheered and cheered for him. The following telegram bas Mr. Bryan concluded his great "No one has yet given a satis-been sent from Buckingham speech at a quarter past four Do factory explanation of the deluge. Palace to the Mayor of Louth: Friday, and following the demoD- The thunderstorm had subsided, The King and Queen are shock-stration, Mr. Colby replied to and there was no sound preceeded to hear of the terrible disaster bim on the League of Nations The Secretary of ing the sodden rising of the to your town, involving loss of question. stream. There was just a roaringhie and property. I am desired State said that this question had of the water as the river burst its to express Their Majesties passed to a higher tribunal thaa beartfelt sympathy with the iba Convention and that it is Many people lost all their families of those who have desirable now that the people He attacked possessions, and many are render-perished and with the sufferers should decide it. ed borseless, though temporary in this sad calamity.-(Signed) the reservations that had been sbelter has been provided for Stamfordbam. those in distress by the people of Louth whose homes escaped the full force of the flood. The damage, roughly estimated, is from a quarter to half a million Louth pounds.

banks.

THE PREMIER'S MESSAGE. The Premier sent the following

the Mayor telegram 10

sympathy

relation to the attempted in Peace Treaty, concluding bis! address with a tribute to Presi of dent Wilson, the crowd wasting another ten minutes in another

of "Profound

with demonstration, with criss yourself and your fellow-citizens "Stand by the platform!" A tremendous Crimsby culminated in Bloods in in great disaster which has be

rainfall

at

the lower parts of the town.

fallen your town.

Please let me know what

including the parks, the watersistance the Government cars Thorpe, and her daughter.

render."

being ten feet deep in places.

Most of the inhabitants, 8258

A DOCTOR'S GALLANTRY, the Press Association correspon-

The Rev. Henry Cox, of Louth, dent, were kep: indoors by a thunderstorm about five o'clock contributes the following descrip| when the calamity happened, and tion of the flood to the Daily it was some time before those no: Mail:- immediately affected

realised

was taking place. There lived an old woman, aged 72, named

A few doors up the street lived a young man named Cartwright. the girl's sweetheart.

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Mrs Cartwriget says that her son, having seen to his mother's safety. made his way through the "The disaster came on our town the water to the house of the with overwhelming suddenness. Thorpes. Here be found his what had occurred.

Bridges were demolished. The force of the water was sweetheart with her mother, who -houses ilooded, and buildings (trecaedous that a large number of is an invalid. He tried in vain wrecked: furniture. domestic those who lost their lives must to assist the girl and woman He could not animals and human beings were bare been killed outright in the away to safety. swept away by the sudden rush first few moments of the flood. move the mother, and the girl of water, which was two hundred Many were the gallant attempts said. "I cannot lease without

to rescue, but these were bindered mother." yards wide.

which "My son, said Mrs. Cartwright, Firemen in attendance at the by the general panic

made a final attempt to rescue CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER

WORKS LEVEL. fire station were carried away, prevailed.

Dr. Loughton Smith did them, bot the girl to the end res and three children were drowned

With a fused to more, and my son was in a house bard by, the water particularly fine work. rising practically to the reilings, rope round his waist he spent over carried away, but by a desperate re People who had taken refuge in two hours in the water wading struggle managed to save bimself. Tan the upper storeys of houses and and swimming to render aid to Both the mather and the girl in trees were trapped by the the injured. Altogether the flood perished.

This is the end of everything." water and drowned, and others only lasted two hours, by which were rescued only with difficulty time the waters began to subside added Mrs. artwright. pointing

to the wreck of ber home. and to give up the dead.

"It is not at present possible to SWIMMERS 13 RAGING WATERS. The food began to subside after

A Crutrul Ners Louth car complete death-roll tell the four hours, leaving a scene of in- Bodies are being discovered in odd respondent says:- describable borror. Dead bodies floated in the stream, great holes places, for those who were not in gaped in the walls of houses their houses at the time were where they had not collapsed,ept off their feet and carried and a thick mud deposit marked long distances.

A SCENE OF HORROR.

the track of the flood. The town

At the height of the calamity

CAUGHT IN CHILD-BIRTH.

where

The men and women

who formed themselves into search parties and beroically brought out some of the dead from the febris searched the countryside

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is overwhelmed at the terrible Emerging from the calamity are on Sunday in the track of the extent of the disaster. Accom-many moving incidents. modation is being found for the Captain Loseby. M.C. M.P. jover the low-lying part of the homeless, bumbering about one during the rescue work, got into town the strongest swimmers in Emel pai

23.. 29 5 'Cause the water bad the locality bravely volunteeredaran pe

per day thousand in bouses situated in house

Coustant pply in all dermiste dugank the higher districts which escap reached to the top of the door, and to attempt to rescue people im-)

prisoned in their homes with one be 1915 an-1 17:0 ed injury.

found a woman in child-birth

The doctor in attendance was ropes fastened to their bodies. the velocity of the water was interrupted by the distress of the They Awam through the raging: KOWLOOS WATERWORKS LETEL. terrific, rushing into James distracted husband. That un-waters and dragged out many Street, immediately ahead of a happy man sprang out of the persona to safety.

It was in this way that Mrs.

wbo sharp turn in the river where the window into the water. Spring-

Jost her flood burst its banks, at anjing after him, the doctor rescued Berry. estimated speed of forty miles the man, and, returning, proceed-children, was rescued,

ed with his professional duties. FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS. per hour.

Benefroly. Pathetic scenes were witnessed Later Captain Loseby, with James Street ran like a mill. race, houses being submerged to help, was able to get the woman at Louth when the funeral of 16s and decimals of gallons during the month in English, Mathematics, Trigonome-

the in-and her newly-born child out of victims took place simultaneous-f June. the roofs, on which

ly. The wide aisle of the Parish Canyon

Estimated pupu! 192.720 habitants took refuge. As a pro-house to bospital.

#150 When the child was born the Church was filed with coffins, the resident put it occupants were caught like rats water was within six inches of and three little white-draped Caption 15

Four hours bef re the either the bed on which the mother lay. sbelis. in a trap. They were

service hundreds of people drowned or knocked senseless as ▲ DAUGHTER'S DEVOTION. houses fell

them. In In James Street, a neighbour-tbronged the approaches to the Ramsgate Street three houses ing throughfare, another drama church where the bodies rested.

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