On Sunday, there was less Jbut on Monday there was another very severe gale, very nearly bad as that on Saturday. An exceptionally high Spring tide meeting, the flooded Thames caused remarkable scenes on the Embankment on Tuesday afternoon. When the tide was at its height, the water level at Charing Cross Bridge was nea ly six feet above the usual high-water mark. Water was forced upwards through the sewers and flowed over the Embankment side of the roadway both at Charing Cross and the Temple to a depth of eral inches. Tramway-cars were driven cautiously through a torrent of water that was sweeping into the conduits. At Millbank the water was 2h fect above the road level, and poured through gaps in the stonework of the retaining wall. This has been much weakened.
Many people stood on the bridg during the afternoon watching the turbulent river, which was reported at Westminister Pier to have reached the highest level for more than bury weir there is a normal drop of 12 ft, but on Tuesday the volume: of the stream was so great that the weir-pool waters were on a level with the river above, Near Hampton Court, a houseboat broke adrift in the early morning, collided with another and sank, Hundreds of riverside bungalows were cut off from the mainland. Builders at work on cottages bordering the main Sunbury-Shepperton road were working in waters, as the water was lapping around the bottom of the scaffold poles. Town Ferry Lane, Shepperton, ran a two-knot current, and the only way to distinguish the road boundaries was by the line of telegraph wires stretching across the water. Motor-cars, horse vehicles and cyclists had to splash their way through 18 inches of water. Housewives bent on shopping carried wading boots as well as shopping baskets. Occupants of the neighbouring cottages and bungalows had to walk to dry land along plank bridges while some families had constructed rafts on which they ferried their way across.
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Londoners in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe worked hard yesterday afternoon to make their houses watertight as possible in expectation of flooding at high tide. The water swept over Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe, and rushed down Cherry Garden. Street and West Lane. The drains were soon overflowing, and the ground floors and basements of several houses were undated.
At Teddington Lock on Tuesday water rushed past the weir at the rate of 6,300,000,000 gallons in 24 hours, the greatest flow for nearly six years. As the flood figure is 4,500.000,000 gallons, you will see [that the fixure reached on Tuesday is equal to a flood and a half.
Very much the same is happening all over the country.
Train's Thrilling Journey A thrilling experience marked the Journey from Euston to Aberdeen fof the night express due ut the latter terminus at 7.40 on Tuesday morning. A raging torrent submerged part of the railway be-
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