STORMS IN EUROPE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15333, 16 June 1910, Page 7

STORMS IN EUROPE.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED. IN AUSTRIA. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 14. A torrential storm in Vienna caused great loss, and the trains had to suspend running. Some 1400 cases of damage have been reported. FLOODS IN GERMANY. BURSTING DAMS. 325 LIVES LOST. United Prers Association—By Electrio 'lologxapli—Copyright. LONDON, June 14. A Berlin message says that floods which caused dams to burst drowned 150 people in the Alir Valley nnd 175 in other districts of Germany. THE VICTIMS. LONDON, Juno 14. Tho victims of the floods included 100 at Blankonstein, 50 at Adcnau and 25 at Hoennigen. 'Tlio majority were labourers, who wero sleeping in huts. The telegraphs aro down and tho railways interrupted. The Ahr is subsiding. WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION. COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE. i HUNDRED AND FIFTY PERSONS DROWNED. TOWNS INUNDATED. (Received Juno 16, 12-30 a.m.) BERLIN, June 15. Twenty bridges were destroyed in the, Ahr Valley. Engineers and infantry are constructing temporary substitutes. Several villages wero wrecked. The Oberammergau River rose rapidly and flooded tho roads and railway, isolating the town and threatening the Passion Play theatre. A bridge over tho Ahr at Schulda, crowded with peoplo watching tho flooded river, collapsed. It is reported that there were ono hundred and fifty deaths. Forty-nine bodies have already been washed ashore. The valley of the Meuse is devastated. Smaller rivers rose fifteen fee-t in an hour. Many bridges were destroyed, and towns and the countrysido flooded, drowning cattle and sheep.