RUSSIA IN THE THROES.
BANDITS, FLOODS AND FPIDEMIC.
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LONDON, Sept. 26. 1 The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express states that bandits tore up the rails and wrecked an Odessa express train at Altouklovo. Fifteen persons were killed outright and 25 mortally and 50 slightly injured. Most of the victims were buried in the wreckage. There were dreadful scenes of suffering. As a result of the floods in Petrograd twenty persons were killed and many more severely injured. Normsd life has been resumed after three-quarters of the city had been submerged for 31 hoars. The damage is estimated at £1,000,000. The Moscow, correspondent of the Daily Express reports that a typhoid epidemic has followed the tidal wave in Petrograd, and there are a hundred cases daily. The floods swept through cemeteries and carried off scores of coffins. Museums suffered heavy losses in tapestries and antiques. The Academy of Science lest-its natural history, ethnographical and zoological collections. The losses to industry are estimated at' £1,000,000.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 September 1924, Page 5
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