HOLY COLONY FLOODED
PRIESTS CLIMB INTO TREES. DISASTER IN INDIA. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) DELHI, October 19. The most Temarkable story in regard to the floods which devastated Southern and Northern India during the present monsoon comes from Hardwar, in the United Provisoes, which is an ancient holy retreat for thousands of Hindu priests and their disciples. Without warning, the holy colony found their huts inundated by the floods, which, steadily rising, compelled them to take refuge in trees. The floods broke down the trees, and drowned over a hundred priests and disciples. Heavy damage was caused to residences, and to the colleges or the priesthood.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 8
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