HEAVY LOSSES
PETROGRAD DISASTER TYPHOID FOLLOWS FLOOD GREAT DAMAGE IN THE CITY, (onrrto press asbocutios.—copistonT.j UDSTRAUAN-NBYT ZB.ILAJiD CABLi ASSOCIATION:) LONDON, 26th' September. The Moscow correspondent of x the "Daily Express" says there are dreadful scenes of suffering as the result of the floods in Leningrad (Petrograd). Twenty persons were killed, and many more severely injured. ". ' ■ Normal life resumed after three-quar-ters of tiie city had been submerged for 06 hours. - c Tlie damage is estimated at £1,000,000, and the losses to industry at a similar amount. . J...A typhoid epideniic followed, the tidal wave. There are a hundred 'cases every day. . ■ . ■ ■ . ... J The floods swept through the cenietenes and carried off scores of coffins The museums suffered heavy losses of tapestries and antiques. The Academy ot bcience lost its natural history ethnographical, and zoological collections.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7
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133HEAVY LOSSES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1924, Page 7
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