The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-10-26 00:00:00

DISASTROUS FLOODS AND GALES.

The rain on Wednesday appears to have extended to all
parts of England, and was accompanied on the northern
coasts by a severe gale. At Blackburn, Sheffield, Dew s-
bury. Birmingham, and in the low-lying districts of the
Mitlfauil counties, there have been serious floods. Several
the roadways around Oxford are under water. In
Devonshire the flood appears to have extended over • very
wile area, but it was especially destructive in the valley
of lite, covering a tract of country many miles long with
deep water. A large number sit cattle and sheep were
swept away from tueadows. Several bridges were carried
away or damaged, and there was considerable interrup-
tion to the railway traffic. At a hamlet near Eynes, the
seat of Sir Stafford Northcote, a public-house called the
Three Horseshoes was washed down, together with two
labourers' cottages. A shepherd on a farm not far from
this place was surrounded by water, owing to a bridge
having been swept away, and was obliged to paws the
night on a hayrick. Lawlists suffered greatly from the
ram.
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In the southern part of Nottingham the lower parts of
2,000 houses were flooded. On the Midland railway there
was three or four feet of water, and the passenger trains
took three hours to go seven miles. Water entered the
carriage doors, and in some Glees put out the engine fires.
The streets have been turned into rivers with three feet
of water rushing through theist, oarrying in its course
articles of furniture, stacks of hay, loads of Umber. A
cart drawn by two horses, itnd containing twelve persons,
lett passing the corner of • street, when • large culvert
burst open with such force that the cart was upset, and
the occupants thrown into the torrent. Three persons
were drowned.
A now named Asher was taking his horse out of his
stable in Wilford, when the horse stumbled and flung the
rider into the water. His brother hearing of the accident
plunged into the flood, notwithstanding the remonstrance
of the police, and was last seen swimming about fruitlessly
in search of the drowning man. Several horses and other
animals bays been drowned.
At Petersborough there has been a great loss of farming
stock, and a man was swept away by the current and
drowned.
A man tamed Garrett was drowned in the flood at
Turweston, near Buckinghaiu. The rivers Yeo, Parrett,
and Tune have overflowed their banks in many places,
and the little town of Langport buttered considerably.
The adjacent moors for utiles around are deluged, but the
stock was removed in safety.
In Iluatingdonshise the Ouse has overflowed its hanks
in all directions, and the meadows and lowlands ace sub-
merged for miles. The fanners have removed all their
stock from the fields. At Aloonbury and other places
near, the streets and houses are goaded.
In the Aylesbury district the waters are greatly swollen.
Near Leighton a horse and trap were washed away by the
stream. The horse was drowned, and the occupants of
the trap had • very narrow escape. Many of the roads in
the neighbourhood are quite impassable.
The Fees and low-lying districts to Cambridgeshire and
adjoining counties are under water.
At Burton-on-Trent the water in some places is four
feet deep. Brewing operations have been partly lUe• :
tended.
saThsapeiw railway traffic
stopped.
between Derby and Nottingham is I
At Nuneaton. hayricks hays been partly submerged,
and other agricultural property injured.
The Brightside, Denaby, mil other collieries are flooded,
no that hundreds of men are out of cork. Many boats
have been swamped at Bentley. All traffic on the West
Riding Branch of the Great Northern Railway has been
stopped the huge mass of water having burst through the
rough
(caving • gap two or three hundred yards
lung, over which the rani and sleepers hang likes suspens
sion bridge.
The timsls have done great damage to the liees south-
west of Bristol. ou the Bristol and Exeter Railway.
The state of the New Forest Shakers is inset pitiable ;
they coruparo their position to that of a ship at sea. Sleep
impuesible. Both day and night are taken up in clearing
the tents of water.
Many low lying tenements in Bath are flooded- The
wide expanse of moor between Ilighbridge and Glaston-
bury, was covered to a considerable depth. At Bailey
Gam, near Wiruborne, extensive tracts of land were
submerged.
The rails and a bridge below Averhain Weir are war
on the Newark line ass train WWI passing. The engine uaa
tender went over the embankment into the flood, the next
carriage was damaged, a third forced across the rails.
Fortunately. there were only a few pamengers, and their
injuries were but slight.
At Windsor and Eton the Thames current Is whirling
along all sorti of d. brie.
The ',argue, Young England, of Middlesborough, struck
on a sandbank near Yarmouth, and 11 of the crew were
drowned.
The Swedish brig Superior has been totally wrecked off
Aberdeen, and all hands lost. The Isabella Miller, of Col-
rheeter, went ashore, and the lifeboat rimmed her crew.
The barque Mirsch, of Langesunde, went ashore at Scots-
townhead, near Peterhead. no crow was rescued by
Manby'e apparatus.
The sclusmer Banenuister Kraef t, of Rang, went ashore
at the entrance to Peterhead Harbour. The crew were
eared, hut three men were drowned in endeavouring to
rescue them.
At West Weymis Castle a strong sea wall has been
swept away, and the pasture land inundated.
At Exeter the low-lying moo. of St. Thr.
was
flooded, and scores of iseople could not leave their houses
without wading knee-deep.
At Exwick houses were swamped and much damage
stone to furniture. A wall in Park-road gave way before
the press of water, which rushed upon the backs of some
houses situated on a lower level in Barrack-road, riddling
the walls and flooding the dwellings to the depth of tlf
or 7ft,, and carrying away the front doors. The inmates
were taken by surprise, but all of them contrived to escape.
a,me being taken from the upper windows by men who
went into the cater Up to their armpits. Tn., houses in
mdfered 113.. re severely. The water
entered at the front doors, and the whole of Use hack
from basement to roof, fell in. with a crash. Some of the
inmates narrowly escalcci intury, and one old holy wai
taken unt half •druwn • In union.ruad a horse and cab
were overturn,d hy the force of the stream, and the cab
now lies half buried iu mud and stones. The South-
Western Railway from Lion's Holt tunnel to Queen-street
station was flooded to the depth of 31t. for about an hour.
St. David's station of tim Bristol and Exeter Railway was
inundated, the water reaching nearly up to the level of the
platforms-
A heavy flood inundated the town of Teignmouth, in
Devonshire, and Loam rowed through the streeta saving
life. The shops were Ito, sled and roads destroyed. Some
tau hi of pounds worth of damage is said to have been
done.
poring the last 21days at Bristol .797 tons of rate have
fallen on every sere of lead!
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