SUDDEN FLOODS.
RESCUE FROM CHURCH
Worshippers Nearly Drowned
While Praying.
DRAGGED THROUGH ROOF.
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
BERLIN, May 17.
While praying in a church at Guel, near Cobknz, 25 people were trapped by flood waters following a cloudburst, which extensively damaged the Rhineland. The water had almost reached their necks when the police rescued them through the church roof. Five people were drowned in the same village.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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