WALL OF WATER
DOWNRUSH FROM HILLS
BUILDINGS OVERWHELMED
United Press . .Association—By Electric Tele
graph—Copyright. (Eeceivcd May 16, 10 a.m.)
JERUSALEM, May 15. Tho deathroU at Tiberias is twentyfour, excluding those- believed to have been swept out into the Sea of Galilee. It is also possible that there arecasualties from a second cloudburst following today's funerals. The victims wcro mostly infants and aged persons who were surprised in the wrecked houses in the crowded lakeside quarter where an eight-foot wall of water, laden with stones and sludge from tho hillsides overwhelmed tho buildings. The sceno is chaotic, but order is slowly being restored.
. Eye-witnesses of tho first disaster stato that the sky turned' to an inky blackness and then came a l unprecedented rainfall. Within a few minutes the narrow streets became raging watercourses. Old houses cracked and collapsed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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138WALL OF WATER Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 114, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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