Show li L i r i I 1 1 i from atom Neus wems newspaper palmr nov FEARFUL FLOODS AD AND GREAT LOSS OF OV LIFE As A RAILWAY VIADUCT IVASH WASHED gD AWAY f from the accounts which reach us of the e floods in yorkshire derby lancashire and the adjoining counties count ies iea they appear to have been hiom more atal fatal and destructive tive than any which have occurred for many years in england the flood at leeds on friday week vias mes was the highet highest ever known the tho valley of the aire to a very great width was wag inundated nearly dearly throughout the whole of its length from above skipton to keighley bradford appleby bridge kirkstall Kirk stall I 1 leeds leeds and on tn to tho the humber the river inundated house housed an ano ant warehouses at leeds it cestr destroyed 0 large amount of property ren ten rendering derin many dwellings uninhabitable in thel their basement storey storeys sto reys 4 and making maling mar mal ing several of the streets impassable by sers carts wagons and other vehicles were brought into requisition toie tole nabi them to go from one part of the town to another 1 several persons were driven from their dwelling sand sought succour at the central police office at the alii where temp temporary tte tLe accommodation nd refreshments were wed provided for foi hem ir 1 1 i tk t among the premie ea inundated in were those of the leeds ex ear cst ost ices noss newspaper the avat water r entered lie tie lower story of the building athe to the depth of about nive five fe fet qt nd ind did considerable mid sid id damage eades putting patting a stop io 10 the tho printing of the paper which NV rab ras 49 joing on at the time the flood ws was at its he height lit shortly afore before ef ore midnight and had hao diminished about aft at leeds bridge uridge at daylight on te tie tle it arday morning still the river wals wag was bey bev several r feet above its usual I 1 level evel and aud aai afi a ibi twi ilis lils s point we have to record tecora one agne very veradis distressing fatality about a quarter to th seven on the saturday morning from twenty to thirty persons were ot anding on a landing or jetty near leeds bridge at the bottom ot of Brig gate watching the flood in the river and tile the wreck on the surface when the foundation on which they were standing gave way and ani they fell fal into the torrent several were drowned Ace according to the investigations which have so far been made it appears that but ten out of the thirty people hoople who were precipitated from the jety jetty have 4 been saved and from the rapidity with which the water was flowing alov ing it is probable that some time must elapse before the whole of the missing bodies bodler will be recovered and even gheant then at a considerable distance down dowd the river the damage done to tb the earlous various earious craft moored in the river has been very serious at one in the morning the water stood about three feet above the landing wharfs and the man stones stone who bs has been employed on the river for forty years pronounces this to have been the highest flood within his recollect recollection an he was obliged to sit up the whole of the night to watch his vessel and he states that from seven on friday evening until about wree three on the following morning a very large number of oil casks were washed away which could not be estimated at a less number than A great deal of damage was done in in the outskirts of leeds the local merry eury rury says in kirkstall road the flood rose to a great height persons who travelled over it in cabs caba having to undergo ergo tho the unpleasant ordeal of riding in in some parts as high as the seats of their conveyances withams williams forge was completely flooded all work was suspended and the horses had to be removed from the stables at kirkstall Kirk stall a culvert burst at the top of the bank and the water rushed down the declivity inundating the lower parts of the houses in its course and necessitating the tenants seeking some securer abode the scene at the railway station at kirkstall Kirk stall baffles description tho tile river which flows by the side aide of it burst all ali 11 its boundaries and embracing the whole of the tramway in its folds flowed on free and unfettered leaving no other distinction between its natural and its adopted course than here an overturned porters box and there the remains of what had served to give the passengers accommodation while waiting for the t trains the water flowed along the line ina lila lna deep rapid lapid stream as far fai as the eye could reach while the fields in the we v vicinity were at one time fline flooded as five live or six feet foet tha ground on which the abbey bands shared the thy same samo fate bate as inq it neighbours but fortunately the flood did not reach the thel nide fide finhold old oid ruin itself of course it was absolutely impossible for trains I 1 in U the latter parlor the day to deac reach h time tire station they had bad abe to be stopped some distance froin it and the passengers were elent eleft left to mid find their way as beat they coid cold could to leeds thel bridge at KirKs tail tall forge hm has been completely t und undermined the bridge on tho the branch lin leading to the suffered such injuries as to render it entirely useless A huge boiler swep swept fro from inthe the chemical works of tunstall Tuh stall was hurled against it aitor altor r gether destroying its supports at tha forge itself immense damage has bee beau done the water vater having haying extinguish extinguished eq the furnaces and covered the entire works to the depth of several deveral feet tho th offices were flooded and nha one enid end of a small e was carried away by the I 1 ae accumulation mutation mu lation of material the water appears to have played the tile ms mosi most fant fantastic atio atlo tricks in the works onks orrs removing e heavy passes of iron to all imaginable s spots and nd floate floating I 1 ing ia in moir their place tar I 1 bp barrel barrei planks of wood and oth other ati ari xi I 1 cles from the adjoining premise re ek bave t q V kirkstall Kirk stall forge the fa valley vailey ley ios ws was coneie coverer verea co with water avater and nd but writhe devastation caused by sueh such an inundation the picturesque i moonlight at the chemical writs writa c coupled by mr nir tunstall the flood which had risen with great rapidity swept everything moveable moveably move able before it and the fail family aily ally had to make maue h hurried escape mr irr tunstall Tun toil toll who was su frering suffering illness being beang being taken out of the chamber window two or three large tubular boilers boller boiler Sj used for storing ahr cardd we were weno bw swept ent ept into tho the river and one was wn carried i wit it great force against the buttresses f t 11 b railway bridge leading to kir kirkstall Kirk stall estal I 1 forge the wooden railway b bridges I 1 across the tho river r at xe bewlay iak lay lak and Cal cai calverly calverley verle verie i remained emal emai ried tied so far as could b be d ascertained without material injury and te the sami same bame same remark n applies lies lles 0 t the line generally up to appleby beyond th this 8 point the destruction on was most ser sor serious gorlod lou lod the line on leaving appleby station passes through a cutting andrup and up to fri day afternoon after affer poon was carried earned thence byn byu by viaduct across the valley vailey which opens opens out dut here in a broad flat of land through which flows the aire before reaching appleby bridge this viaduct was substantial of ten or twelve arches and rising a considerable height above the tite rive river r it was built of stone and not only had fidd every mry appearance of strength but it has carried for malty maity many lrea liea years jears ot not fewer than 1200 1 trains a day including included heavy mineral minera 1 l and goods trains aa friday morning week it was observe observer 4 that the tho valley was flooded and as the day advanced the water increased a and na ultimately covered the valley from one side fo to the other still no anxiety was felt on the matter but the current swept on with great force and the tho soil being light and friable the current 1 1 rapidly undermined the foundations of the buttresses r and during tile the afternoon there were indications that the viaduct was livingway giving givin gway way about four one of of the buttresses sank and an arch fell this was followed in succession by the fall of the other arches and in a short time there were left standing only two buttresses the solitary remnant of the rula ruin ruin ruia which had taken place the result is most unfortunate not only as regards i the tile interests of the company but the trade of the district more especially as the restoration of such a structure must be a work of tinie time the engine belonging to the tile goods train which peu feu in n remained in the river but the guards van and trucks we were re washed down the stream the inundation has been attended by I 1 great loss of life along the valley of the calder at dewsbury eight or ten alivs s havlen have been lost by the floods i in the neighbourhood neighbour hood of thornhill 11 ll lees dewsbury mills theli theil the bod flood has made great havoc and several lives 1 have been sacrificed at a late hour on friday night a terrible accident occurred A cart belonging to mr chates worth and driven by a man named john thorpe was coming in the direction of dewsbury when the vehicle was swept into the river and several persons who were riding upon it perished the cart containing the driver mr thomas thornas wild of thornhill mr whittaker Whitt alier ailer tailor and draper northgate and his two sons matthew and william together with a young man mail a clerk in the saville aville SS estate office was passing along the road leading from arm cleaford road to fall falk laue lane the water bein gnp gup to the tho hones horses belly beliy at the time and rapidly rising wilen the surging waves beating against the wall on the west idest side burst it down and carried earned the carland car cart curt tand and its living freight through the bound boundary ary arv wall of the tho dewsbury mills yard sard and hurled the whole into dee deep deed P water aha add some efthem of them into the river below mr whittaker and his sons were drowned and so there is reason to fear was As mr wild the driver was drowned dionne 0 o the clerland clerk cler kand and a person named stead were saved dred by liy swimming on to the ahe roof root of a house A youth fligg was also drowned aboy A boy named hirst from thornhill lees haa baa been washed away the bood in tile the wakefield district has turned out to be the the heaviest arid arld mo most i disa disastrous ever known to have i visite visited ld the neighbourhood neighbour hood there was 4 ver very y grea great excitement and alarm aarm in the town t own all the friday night hight people who were desirous of leaving by way of A ri adge end or westgate common had pa mire wire hi re vehicles and even those parts of the fown town were dangerous to crom erom lih in many streets access to dael 1 lings vvhs as impossible on westgate carrimon cor eor nimon rimon any mode of conveyance convey ance anco was d by the tile I 1 p polices ice after eight M as the hud had fallen in tere tore several ral rai und and two or three garts carts carts and add abs cabs had geen veen been colitt consequence towards sven breight bolock a ofir got at abroad thau thai 1 of children childr a been drowned in A a low lying erato eramo all r er named brooksbank brooks bank 1 a locality al hl wholly by irish the chief constable and a number of younk young youn gentlemen nobly came forward to render re asa istance evading ap tok tOi their arm pit the children on their backs s alao on 04 the baak of the stream loud louo jy cheered the party as they 1 approached is near the prison and Cap captain tairA armytage armitage Army tage the gd ver nor placed we the industrial homert tho the disposal of the authorities and in it the he homeless people were fed and housed for the night numerous instances of the cop cou courage rage devotion and benevolence of the townspeople might wight easily be multiplied ti up the ther riven iyer riVer towards and above ajor norbury horbury ury and down towards stanley the floods course is marked with equally destructive effects it would be impo ablo to gle glo give gie any detailed detailer deta ilea liea account of the losses sustained but some dea adea may be formed of the extent of the devastation when it is stated that the damage done i ip meers keers wades wadea cloth mill dill mr arlees lees worsted manufactory Aless rs mackie aa simi fimi arr mr harts corn warehouses and ili lii Wil wll sons gons soap works will not in I 1 any liny sany instance fall short abort of 1000 and these are are only on a par with the injuries dane to bainses mill at horbury sanderson gregory and sand band banderson r bono sono born onn orn haigis mr nin cloys agricultural implement clement works Aless rs greens iron foundry mr withams forge and other immense establishments situated on the calders shore more the district which hs s puch uch an awful visitation is a thickly populated one colleges Col coi lenes have been beef flooded vessels stranded live stock carried off farms hedges walks and suchlike landmarks destroyed in fact all manner mahner of things all trades and innumerable individuals have fallen vic tims to the general ruin there is not one among the many factories stand standing ilig on the bank of the river in which serious and extensive damage has not been beell done to the machinery and in which at all events in every case work dla dia did alot riot cease 1 ib govI sevi eral cral tn instances stances not to be de resumed again for weeks at bradford the thib flood was very disastrous ast sst rohs for five fideor six bours nurs ours the streets were quite impassable and the cabmen cabeen and wherry men were busily engaged to convey people from one side of the town to the other through the deep streams the surrounding di districts shared in the calamity worth valley which communicates muni cates with airedale at keighley was filled with an immense flood and great destruction of or property was the result considerable damare damage is done to a hew dew line of railway which has lifts for some years ears been in course of construction under difficulties in that valley many mills and dwelling houses were flooded in several beveral parts of the valley and great damage to property was waa the consequence on the saturday morning some thousands of acres of land at doncaster were under water consequent upon thelver traver flow of the don within the memory of man there has been no such flood in fact the water came so speedily that many farmers were unable to remove their stock from the fields carcasses of beasts and sheep passed down the stream and the craft in tue the ri sus suA sustained tined considerable dam lii lik e IL ya seven sheep were W washed led bouc out of f a nield field near doncaster and perished and it ift is feared that many hundreds eds have havil been lost t on the friday a horse and cart eart p and aud the driver passing oyer over th bridge from near the assize courts Court 9 manchester eiter into sal sai salford ford were swept away by a strong deep current of water across duross the bridge and were lost A tetory building belonging to Aless rs eakett ia kett and co engravers eng ravers close by the all Ili irwell arwell well weli fell owing to the water wea weakening weak kenig euls cuiS g the foundations foundation si and one of the men in hi their employ was swept away by the flood his dead body was found i nead near nean tho victoria bridge A man in in lower broughton was wading through the water |