The Late Floods In Wales,

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Date: Jan. 9, 1846
From: The Times(Issue 19129)
Publisher: NI Syndication Limited
Document Type: Article
Length: 67,439 words
Source Library: Times Newspapers Limited

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Vltg 2.BA FOODS 1. IVAL),S, 7

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T*,;I!he re Vreientia tb e 60untjd ent totheriy x

lut Wre Wu such z.s not been vW% teI~d: for 1* yrns ;. iudecd,rthe extriordin good k*

to one that 'Occurrod ha;lf iceatuy;go

theyealT9, thente bYidg3esat tbe flaywjere c;e dowun tthe diniction of Troprty W

Incited. Qssr:tb: wIde~fxtent of.the Lug inedo* arin thbL city was spread. Jlat Sheet .Qf wMr prcntitg te appearance of gret sea, ad tho ri2c r sb eIp beoith u iS werc, loetin the elpyand of Monday. Notring couldM I=o dreary than toe opect; whilst nothe al hea of the. ae ulufty depwisnorit gn se ch nttubens in that well trrihatt

jloealitywlM anywerhe to be seen. We hare not heabrd t aDy lo in the qarter, but do tha bned of the .Wo it-s

bcen very srloi ta a iU be observed frore the oliowiug reord:-

Xr. Ititmi, of PnrnyhW, ofd 24 iheer (worth 26s. eascb at HolLanton; they were in a nUedow ncar Horn hurI cl,orc to the WYy., and on Alonday morning Mlr. Itn directed a an to fetob them from the place. Trhis how.

rt ast3 not done, and tbe consequence was, thst tbe MSr. Richard Prince, of Lower Bttulingharn, had aslo S~ t3rzfin~e ssedrowrned.

aweU, of. Pen and Clyro, lost 40 fine etes, aa two of hie men sorusnts had a very narrow escape fhoe drowning. The sheep ware in a field near tho sheep.'howc tm gto thei~ at 9 o'lonk o 8unday norna' and contutucsfor Iome titaokekcpi:gthesheop (hbout 100) 0

the safest spots but as the rirer ror so rapidly there was rot the Icust prospect for thelr taespo. Abonrt 1 'clock tbe

irnetuus orrntcas {h .x^^.-. -A. 41- ..

mne iwro bliged to remaianup-t4o their ne in miter unta 4o'clock in the. aftrnoon, Wben they were providetitlaII

sexed by MIr. Powell, wvo went out to them -in n, a= ; tricile. Mr. I robtrt 'of Glabury, lost about 20 sheep. Mrs. M1organ of Pistil], lost about 15 shep. and we -AM sorry to say tat a' Xreatnumber of ;oriou es ioesa be.'e eo curred between Olasbury3 nd Biilth. Tho water rose

lhigh at the latter :place, that it iliniuatcd th k gasot, and tho placo was cfnseqjentJy in totol darkness, Tbb Grove-house inn, a smnall publiouiouso en the Itadnoslii,o Eide of tbc rier, ,as completely surrounded by tbe flood; ana in conscquence of the zudfeuners of the rise of tbe rirer, and"its coining dowrn in the ni&ht time, gred damnage was done in the house and outbuilding. The water was at one time nearly three feet deep in thee -premises. At Churchhouso, a farni Abo}t- a rbl T

a baif below Builth, and occupied by Mr. Sheen, 35 sheep were sweph away by tho tlood. Mr. Sheen's serrant man, in attompting to roscuo some of the sheep, ws

nearly drowned he having crossed to a smnal piece of land not oovered wviU tho flood, And...

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