THE KOREAN FLOODS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 6

THE KOREAN FLOODS

MUCH MATERIAL DA3IAGE (By Electric OrW*^Copyright.) Auat. and N. 16. Gable Association. Tokio, July 20. Details of the Korean floods indicate vast property damage, but a comparatively small loss ot life, which .is estimated at below one thousand. The river at Seoul rose forty feet, wipng out the t.own s of Ayuson, Nirindo, Malto. At Ryusan, the stations alone is standing, the water being . ten. led over the, floor. The roof was janthed with reaigecs and three, hundred, and. freight cars were' submerged in’ the yard. On Sunday morning, tlie water was receding ’at ait inch an hour. Six thousand residents of .Totv were rescued by rails. At Eitoho..thice tlious-jinl were cut- off on a hill top amp two liundrcd were setred perched. l 'in trees.

Seoul is without light, phones and rinking water. .Nine thousand houses have been destroyed. amL forty thousand are sheltering in schools and temples. The troops effected thousands of rescues. 310 RE FLOODS Calcutta, July 20. Tho provinee ol Orissa has received, most abnormal rains. The river 3Ldianadi rose, and devasLed tho villages. Thousands are homc!e.,s and it is feared many lives were lost.