INDIAN FLOODS.
DEATH ROZT, OF 50,000. DAMAGE THIRTEEN MILLIONS. LONDON, October 3. A special correspondent describes Hyderabad, in India, where the floods occurred last week, as '"a black grave." Six hundred corpses were, he states, removed from the slush on Thursday at one spot, and one hundred on Friday. He computes the death roll at 50,000, and the damage at £13,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 238, 5 October 1908, Page 5
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61INDIAN FLOODS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 238, 5 October 1908, Page 5
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