RUSSIA SWEPT.
WATERSPOUT CAUSES FLOODS
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. ST. PETERSBURG, March 16. A fierce gaJo swept over the Kuban district (near tho Black Sea) for ten hours on Friday night. A waterspout devastated six villages from Esir to Kertch Strait.
One hundred and 6eventy-six navvies •on the Kuban railway, sleeping in huts, fled before the and took refuge in carriages, which the flood swept away. When the flood subsided, terrible scenes wore witnessed, carriages and wrecked huts being piled high, and corpses strewn on top. There were only forty-eight survivors, who wore miraculously saved on the highest heap. One township, consisting of workmen's dwellings, was overwhelmed, and out of a thousand inhabitants it is feared that only eight wore saved. Many perished at Temrjuk.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14919, 18 March 1914, Page 9
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