FEARFUL FLOODS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10192, 2 January 1926, Page 5

FEARFUL FLOODS

STRANGE MISHAP AT HEIDEL- • / ; : BURG. DOCTOR AND WIFE. DROWNED IN- STREET. MANY HOMELESS’ IN EASTERN HUNGARY. United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Dee. 31, 11 p.m.) BERLIN, Dec. 31. The floods are extending. The Rhine is 26ft above normal. large areas of Mulheim are submei’ged. The British troops in Cologne were compelled to use rafts to reach their canteens.

A motor car at Heidelberg suddenly entered a flooded street and the occupants, a doctor and his wife were drowned. Hundreds are homeless in Eastern Hungary. The river Meiss is swollen. Soldiers, using field guns, unsue cessfully attempted to break up the masses of ice the floods brought from the mountains.

Troops diminished the loss of life by bursting a dam.—Sun.

SHEETS OF WATER IN BRITAIN

MOUNTAINOUS SEAS IN ATLANTIC.

NUMEROUS S.O.S. CALLS

(Received Dee. 31, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dee. 30

Meadows, fields and valleys during the past few days have been transferred into sheets of water. Ten million tans of rain fell in Londan during an hour, accompanied by a wild gale loosening chimneys and causing havoc to wireless aerials. The weather forecasts predict a continuance of biizzards which are producing mountainous seas in the Atlantic and numerous S.O.S. calls and thrilling tales of plucky lifeboat and coastguard rescues.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

LONDON Dec. 30

The gale in Zeeland blew a crowded motor bus off a ferry And six were drowned.—Sun.

FATAL FALL OF CHIMNEY

ONE KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED

(Received Dee. 31, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 31. _ A hurricane, with a velocity of So miles per hour, and intense thunderstorms over London and elsewhere did much minor damage. Telegraphs and telephones were interrupted. At an East End Poor Law institution, one man was killed and seven injured by the fail of a chimney upon a ward occupied by forty inmates, some of whom were partly buried in the debris. The Thames and Seine rivers continue to rise. Parts of the quays in Paris are submerged and cellars in the suburbs flooded. The smaller wireloss aerial at the Eiffel Tower was carried away.—Reuter.

BURSTING DYKES INUNDATE BELGIAN COALFIELDS.

DANUBE AND RHINE VALLEYS

INUNDATED

(Received Jan. 1, 10.50 p.m.) BRUSSELS, Dec. 31

Bursting Meuse dykes owing to floods swamped Belgian coalfields and inundated 25,000 houses. - Hundreds of cattle were drowned. BERLIN, Dec. 31. The Danube, Rhine and Elbe Valleys were inundated and towns and villages isolated by floods. Only the hill on which the Cathedral stands is not submerged. Thousands are homeless. BUDAPEST, Dec. 31. Aeroplanes throughout the day fruitlessly bombed an ice pack 150 feet high blocking the river Meiss. Five army engineers were drowned endeavoring to rescue families taking refuge on the roofs of houses for the past four days. There have been many deaths and great damage from flood's throughout Hungary. Thirtysix miners were entrapped in the Marsujvor mine and drowned. —Sun.