DISASTER IN YUGOSLAVIA
FLOOD AND CYCLONE.
PANIC-STRICKEN VICTIMS.
TERROR OF THE DELUGE.
MANY PEOPLE DROWNED.
COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS
Australian nnd N.Z. Press Association. (Received August 25. G. 35 p.m.) VIENNA. Aug. 24. At least 50 people were drowned as the result of a sudden flood at Skoplje, in Yugoslavia. A cyclone whirled through the town at midnight, uprooting trees and throwing them across roads. Then followed a cloudburst, which swept over the mountains surrounding tho town A deluge poured down each valley toward the town. Panic-stricken people assembled in the streets and dashed hither and thither in frantic attempts to escape.
The 'Maliomniedan quarter was demol ished in a few moments.
Cafes and houses collapsed and the electric power failed. The darkness increased the horror.
Eight hundred buildings were do stroyed and 700 families are now home less.
Tho torrent remorselessly rushed on and destroyed other villages, 'lhe total number of the casualties will not bo known for some days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20343, 26 August 1929, Page 11
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