GRAVE SITUATION IN SPAIN.
MADRID, Dec. 17
The Guadalquivir river is 28 feet above the normal. The plain at Seville is a vast lake. A bridge of boats at Alcala del Rio broke its moorings, and three people were drowned. The flood is within 6 inches of the top of the embankment erected for the protection of Seville. The safety of the city is due to the efforts of Signor Moline, port engineer, since the floods oU fifteen years ago.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1910, Page 5
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