Sheffield Independent – Friday 14 March 1919

Yorkshire Floods
Dwellings Isolated and Park Inundated.

Thurnscoe and Wath-upon-Dearne districts have had unenviable experience result of the heavy rains. At the former place the roads in parts were flooded, children could not get to school, and the newly-equipped village park was inundated, the park keeper’s dwelling and other houses in the vicinity being isolated.

Yesterday morning the water had found its way on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and had risen such height that train passengers had to alight about 100 yards from Wath Station, as there was danger of the floods putting the engine firesout.

The river in that locality overflowed to such an extent that fieds were deep in water, and stables, hen-roosts, pig styes and the like were isolated.