A HOLY COLONY
. FLOODED OUT. OVER 100 DROWNED. TREES BROKEN DOWN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 14, noon.) DELHI, Oct. 13. A most remarkable story regarding the. floods which devastated a portion of Southern and Northern India during the present monsoon comes from Hardwar, in the United Provinces, which is an. age-old holy retreat, with thousands of Hindu priests and tlieir disciples. Without warning the holy colony found their huts inundated by the floods, which were ever rising, and compelled them to take refuge in trees. The floods broke down the trees, drowning over a hundred priests and their disciples, and causing heavy damage, to residences and the college of the priesthood.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 October 1924, Page 5
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