TRAPPED IN CHURCH
GERMAN PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCE
FLOOD FOLLOWS CLOUDBURST.
DAMAGE IN RHINELAND
(United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 18, 10.0 a.m. ’ BERLIN, May 17.
While praying in a church at Guel, near Coblenz (capital of Rhenish Prussia), twenty-five people were trapped by flood waters following a cloudburst. The waters had almost reached to their necks when police rescued them through the roof of the building. Five people were drowned in the same village. Tho cloudburst caused extensive damage to tho Rhineland.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 142, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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