TRAINS BURIED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 5

TRAINS BURIED.

TWENTY FEET OF SNOW IN SPAIN GREAT HAVOC AT THE PORTS. By Tclcerapli-Press Association-Copyrii'nt. Madrid, January 15. Tho Governor of Leon, in tho northwest, reports that an avalanche at l'uebla do Gordon swept into a river tho locomotive and eight wagons of a train, which had been held up by snov,'. The snow is twenty feet in depth in many places. The tunnels on the Aralar lino aro blocked, and soveral trains have been buried. It is not known whether the relief that has been sent can reach the held-up trains. " The wires are down. There has been great havoc wrought at Cadiz, Cijon, and Vigo, where eighty vessols were destroyed or damaged. Assistance has been sent to Ottcro, near Segovia, where a train is snowed , up. Tho passengers aro without food. . ara many other' trains snowed up in North Spain. AUSTRALIAN STORMS, MOUNTAINOUS SEAS RUNNING. Sydney, January IG. Shipping arriving hero reports mountainous seas. In several instances slight damage was done to vessels. Heavy rains and floods' are reported from many . districts'. The floods are how subsiding on the south coast. Several washaways occurred on the railways. RECORD FLOOD IN THE HAWKESBURY. '!■ (Roc. January 17, 0.50 a.m.) Sydney, January 16. the goods in tho Hawkesbury district ara .the heaviest on record. Many thousands of pounds worth of damage have been done to crops, fences, and buildings. ' HEAVY' FLOODS. IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, Jailuary 16. The storms 1 are' abating, but as the result of the rain exceptionally heavy floods are expected. Nino inches has boen recorded since' tho rain started.