GALES AND FLOODS.
AMERICAN TOWN UNDER
WATER.
MANY VESSELS LOST.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, January 3. Heavy gales and floods are sweeping the eastern coast of the United States. The town of Newport News, Virginia, is inundated. Many schooners have been lost. Communication is paralysed over the area from Richmond, Virginia, to Atlanta, Georgia.
Considerable loss of life is reported.
FLOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA
HEAVY LOSSES OF STOCK. ( Capetown, January 4. Torrential rains have fallen in Natal _ and in the Transkei district i in the south-east of Cape Colony. | A number of dams have burst, and I the losses of stock are heavy, many sheep being washed away . and j drowned. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15193, 6 January 1913, Page 5
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