New-York tribune., 1912-08-29
|ENCUSH FLOODS RAGING
Cities Are Still Cut Off and
Thousands Are Homeless.
CATHEDRAL IN DANGER
Norwich Edifice, 500 Years Old,
May Be Inundated-Hundreds
of Houses Deluged.
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! London. Aug. 29.-The floods which
| have been raging I'm England, after
| months downpour of rain. have made
/ OF Norwich city set In an inland sea
II is officially stated that the waters
are receding. Train service with Lon
| don wac established last night. and
| early this morning the telephone was
| In operation.
The floods are causing the greatest
suffering In Norwich. It is estimated
/ that ten thousand persons have been
forced 20 leave their homes, finding
! shelter in elementary schools and other
, public buildings. The City Council is
] taking steps 10 relieve the distress. So
! far three drowning cases have been
| reported the victims being two men
and child. Work at the electricity
power station was suspended IN the city
| last night and again darkness set in.
Almost all of East Anglia is a vass
scene Of desolation. The devastation
/ throughout Suffolk is appalling. Scores
| OF villages are cut off from the outside
| world. and the position OF the inhabi-
tants is terrible. The losses are enor-
! nous. Hundreds OF small farmers and
/ c"ttagers are ruined and hundreds Of
! holiday makers are penniless in Var
! mouth and other seaside resorts \
considerable par, of Norwich will have
! TO be rebuilt.
In Norfolk eighty bridges were
washed down and scores of villages arc
cut of from the outside world. Peters
borough became an island city. In,
Ipswich. Kings Lynn. Nottingham
Spaiding Leicester and Stamford dis
tricts all We're badly affected.
Last nights weather forecast ind
Gates a renewal of the rains and CON
sequently. the outlook IS stiIl serious.
( Norwich, Aug. g. - Rescue operations
. "'e proceeding IN this city. where hun
/ dreds os houses have been inundated to
/ the second floor. Women In some In
Stances refused TO leave their homes. and
mad 10 be removed forciOly. More than
seven thousand people are homeless. and
the suffering is acute.
Public buildings ale Inadequate to
shelter the homeless. Boats are taking
hundreds hourly from their houses. The
/ gas and electric lighting plants went out
OF commission to-day and the watervorks
! broke down.
| Great danger exists OF typhoid cpl
I denhc from tho use OF polluted food
Vate-.
| Inc Norwich Mercury building col
/ iapaed to-day and many other structures
arc In danger. Il is feared that tho flood
| Will undermine the foundations ~ tho
| Cathedral, one OF the finest IN England
and nearly so years old.
All the lower portions Of the city arc
| Inundated and the higher portions are
rising out OF the food. making the an
! pearance of an archipelago. The notice
! hremen and volunteers are going about
In boats day and night rcscuing tho nm
/ foTtunates. The rescued are take, 20
/ where the water is shallow enough and
there transferred 20 carts and transported
TO tho public buildings, where they arc
''u pi''4''u lot until they can
20 10 their homes again.
Because the food camo SO suddenly
many working people were cut off from,
th"lr homes. Tho mills and brev.riss
hav" stopped work. shops have beon
washed out and bridges carried awav
| Tho cities Of Lowcstoft and Yarnontb
arc still isolated. II IS feared that now
/ dam Acoutly erected AT Cost.csov ,,,..,.
give way and cause great destruction.