New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-04
TUE FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
,vpopTs FROM ALL THE INUNDATED DIS
M TRICTS,

..nv, w.1FR-PAINfUL INCIDENTs-THk VAL
~ or THE THAMES PARTIALLY FLooplD-Ap-
VANCE IN GRAIN - -.,
..,.x occ ,sloNAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE Ihi"oShi
"Io,,nox Juy 24-Scarcely have we had time 10
- .he shock caused by the news OF the terrible
:aations in France before we are a'o"so" y! az
inu"u' Gam the interior of our own country which,
:, not quite so appalling, are al eas' VI 'o,'
- charactor Meteorological records VIII nave
archoa a very long way back before anything
III i'll our present wet Summer Will be disco'-
Poi, has fallen almost Increasingly now ioi
-, ,,.ols and as a consequence all the WAFER
So. ara cbokcd and the country IN the pii"-
- counties and all the low-lying lana Ill u'o
,o;ghborhood of rivers Is suDihei so"'
disaster at Cwm earn. IN Sou'h ""'
!. happily the cnly one 10y which any serious io's
Tfs has occurred but from all dis'Iic'S VIC "'"i -
A. ;mmep.e destruction of property ana CROWNS
-, H., foundations which even in winter are p'''
,are,v eoualed The country lying near .no o'u' "
o. nr,c;nal rivers and much OF the lo"-iy'ns i"''
n tbe Midland and Eastern counties we n"'"i"n!
.xnect 10 see flooded during the ia'er anu '"
.n,,b. If the wear and accordingly the inhabi'ah's
,ke urcparations to meet what they regard ho,e "s
;;.o th,p a foe Such weather as We have hau
,or.vor defes all calculation and PREPARATION lor
- ~, :,ngl.hn,au ia not accustomed to lear peihs
u,.heJ ont of his dwelling in July. INC couh
a.. an tbe banks of the Severn anu no
.,,,or;es seems t. have suffered mos''
The district of the Forest of Dean III oiouccS,
te,sbire and the country adjoining the "yo an"
Usk in MoslmOuthshire have received '"o "v''
terr;ble visitation, even leaving out Oh account '
disaster before alluded to, which is PERHAPS us u0h
owing To a mechanical cause.-the pursuing VI "
roscrvoir-as to the primary cause OF the EXCESSIVE
,sinf,u Tourists who know the beauthul coun'i!
1 H. a,, Ia aft m n.
rociallv nudcr their usual Summer aspect, would
almost fail to recognize the devastated region Dis II
!. now 70 La seen In the districts above Monmouth
d. river i. five times its usual width. Meadows
b;cb q week or two ago were covered with new
rown hay are now little better than one vast sea OF
water What are in ordinary times lofty trees'
.aord;nc pleasant and grateful shade, are almost
.,hmerOed leaving little else than their branches
ohove the water railway III course
of construction in this immediate us
trct is of course seriously INJURED anu "
bridge which had been commenced TO carry the
rood ocros, the WE has been completely washed
away In Monmouth itself the low-lying streets
have been submerged, and much suffering causeu W
tbe occupants of houses there-chefy OF the poorer
,I,sseshv the flooding of the lower rooms of their
dwellings and the destruction of the furniture ana
goods painful incident connected with the Hoods
i; this district is told from Newport. 1t s said that
the AGED mother of one of the sufferers, William
Eoyen. who had TO swim for his life, came many
miles TO congratulate him upon his escape, Du' Oh
seeing thc condition Of his cottage and his ruiheu
home she fell back dead with excitement in his arms
In tbe Trent Valley and the Midlands the floods
have been severe. Throughout Leicestershire ana
Nottinghamshre the low-lying fields have been
completely submerged, while in many cases 'he
roads have been almost impassable Nbat prom
ised TO be a very good hay crop has been completely
DESTROYED. AT Burton hundreds OF houses in the
lower parts of the town said to be unnhabitaoe
OH account of the lower rooms being flooded, IN some
coscs NEARLY 10 the ceiling Live stock and furniture
ere everywhere being removed, and 1t is feared ta
the brewing operations will be interrupted. In the
Trent both here and lower down. may be frequently
seen the carcasses of drowned cattle, BESIDES many
tons of new-mown hay. In the town OF Leicester
the sewers are found be quite inadequate to carry
away the water, and in consequence as much as
five or six feet of water is IN some OF the Ger
lars A fatal accident is reported from this
roehborhood. At place called Quomdon. near
Rarrow-ou- Soar, man was assisting the lahdiord"i
the village inn in getting furniture from the
lower TO the upper rooms of the house, when wall
suddenly gave way aud let in the water. which car
red him with great force into the back garden; but
Ia was drowned before he could be rescued. In
another part of the same county, at place called
Glenfcld, the streams were much swollen, ana IL
was no uncommon thing for the people for miles
around to find their furniture floating about In the
lower rooms In the lower levels tho inhabitants
became much alarmed, and men waded the water,
which was nearly breast high. and by means
of wagons rescued screaming women and
children in their night-clothes, and carried them
t. places of safety higher level. In the dis
trct of Loughborough people would not believe but
-. Al. s,.l,I had hnr
81 great was the quantity of water which broke
upon the little town, flooding even the market
place In Nottingham the condition of affairs has
even been worse than at Leicester. Here several
factories have stopped working perforce, on ac-
count of the water rising high as to put out the
furnace fires. The water has risen 80 high here IN
to render necessary for the inhabitants i'll several
districts OF the boats to get to and from
their dwellings. The floods have been as disastrous
as those occurring Fat Nottingham six Winters ago,
indeed have destroyed much more property, as no
one had suspected the likelihood of such an occur
renee in the summer At Nuneaton. in Warwickshrc,
factories have been obliged to stop work,
ss IN many cases not only was it impossible to keep
the fires aiiglt, but the machinery was absolutely
submerged. Great fears were entertained lest the
traffic on the Midland Railway should he stopped,
aud 80 create blockade on one of the chief of our
highways. AZ il was. i'll many places the rails had
q foot or / \ inches Of water above them. and the
trains had to slacken speed and plOw through great
quantities of water. At Birmingham the lower
stories Of several houses in lOw-lying districts
the Rea have been under water, and a canal at
Aston burst its banks, doing much damage to about
square mile of habitable houses.
Going further nOithward TO tho Valley Of the Ouse
aud its tributaries the accounts are less startling,
bat yet very serious. The Don at Doncaster has
been very Troublesome submerCiug a good many