Enankment Swept from Westminster to Blackfriars by Thames in Spate London, Jan. 6.
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Having weathered a blizzard, a great thaw, and floods, the country has now been sivept by a terrific lo, which has already been responsible for a number of casualties and considerable damage, Tu North London " wall was blown down, burying and killing woman. In' West London a hoard-ug collapsed, two men and a woman being injured, Another hoarding in Northwest London crashed fon top of a man and a girl, Two P. & O liners, the Razmak and the Mooltan, collided at 'T-Dury. The former was blown from her course and had her bridge very much damaged. Her sailing to Bombay has been delayed.
Gusts of wind, sometimes blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour, Jashed the Thames along the Dankment into the semblance rough sea. Showers of spray deluged the barges, horse-van crossing the Tower Bridge was overturned and an avalanche of tea chests hurled into the river. The driver and the horse, however, were not hurt, Many pedestrians were blown from the pavements under the traffic, There were a number of The death-roll at 10 this morning a was 20—16 in the Westminster area, two at Putney, two at Hammersmith and one at Hurlingham.
Jan, 8.
Advantage has been taken the low tide to repair the abutments on the banks of the Thames through which breaches were made by the food. The entrances to all streets have been barricaded with clay and earth fortifications, con: solidated by piles of sand-bags.
Tag inmates of houses stuffed wp the cracks in the doors and windows of their homes and remained astir until the high tids receded. At three o'clock this morning, further danger temporarily had passed.
Scores of tenement houses have been rendered uninhabitable and their contents ruined by yesterday's inundation. Thames-side municipal tice and other organizations have constituted relief committees to provide food and shelter for flood sufferers.
Crowds of refugees are sleeping in the two halls at Westminster Cathedral, which is built on con: paratively high ground and is one of the few buildings in the dourtcod that has kept dry.
More Floods Threaten exciting rescue The alr services across the Chan-nid have been suspended, while many vessels in the Irish Soa raced to. shelter.
Bight men were seriously injured in Belfast when a section of scat folding was blown down, Thames Breaks Its Banks The Thames, which was in very heavy spate following the great thaw, overflowed its banks in London in the early hours this morning, Smundating the low-lying districts fof the city and bringing a night of terror and tragedy along the north Uank between Lambeth and Vauxhull Bridges. Numbers of people were trapped in the basements of houses and; up to the present, it is known that eleven persons were drowned, The Embankment was flooded from Blackfriars to Westminster.
On the first rush of the waters police hurried to warn the sleeping occupants of houses in Lambeth. Parents hastily grabbed their children and ran before the a vancing flood. The majority them "reached safety in streets away from the river. Others, how-fever, wore trapped by the vising 'The Pert of London Authority wed a warning that the danger of the flooding of the 'Thames Valley will exist until Tuesday, when the tiles will begin to fall.' A repetition of Friday night's flood therefore is possible. Last night's tide rove over 6 ft, above the predicted height.
Notable buildings flooded include the Houses of Parliament, the Tow-London, the Tate Gallery, the Waterloo Hospital, St. The Hospital, Blackwall Tunnel, the Chelsea Power House and Wool wich Arsenal, while thousands of pounds of damage was done in the Tate Gallery, where numerous Turner sketches were ruined.
Relief Fund Started for Sufferers Jan, 8.
Their Majestien have issued a message of sympathy with the victims of the floods in London.
The King has given £100 to the relict furd and the Quee Later.
Abnormal tides surpasain' any within living memory were ex: perienced along the East coast yesterday und whole colonics of each huts used in summer by hoti-day-makers at Frinton, Walton-on-Naze and other resorts were wash-
The waters of the Thames rose with appulting suddenness. Several yvlirenien, who were giving the alarm, were swept off their fect. ed out to sca.
Wharves "in Rochester and Chatham and the railway lines between Colchester and Clapton were damaged.
The river broke the parapet in several places and scattered the suing into the street.
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