Leeds Times – Saturday 01 February 1890

The Great Gale.

Disaster Follows In The Storm King’s Track.

Steamers Sunk, Crews Blown Overboard, Buildings Wrecked.

Houses Flooded, People Drowned, and Cattle Washed Away.

In the Mexborough district, both the rivers Don and Dearne overflowed their banks, and many hundreds of acres of land were submerged. Near the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolsnhire Railway the water lay to a considerable depth, and near Denaby it united with the canal, there being an inundation to a large extent ranging from Bolton-on-Dearne to Conisborough.

There was a wide tract of land covered at Warmsworth and Spotborough, in the direction of Doncaster.