FLOODS IN EUROPE

Otago Witness, Issue 3774, 13 July 1926, Page 30

FLOODS IN EUROPE

ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. VIENNA, July 4 The downpour between the Alps and the Black Sea was the heaviest experienced for half a century. Enormous damage was done, with heavy loss of life and live stock. Railways were inundated, bridges were destroyed, scores of villages and towns were flooded, thousands of acres were submerged, and hundreds of people were drowned. Fifty persons were struck by lightning in Serbia, and 200 were drowned in Rumania. BERLIN, July 4. Remarkable cloudbursts followed a fort, night’s unseasonable rains. Unprecedented floods around Hirschberg carried away houses and concrete bridges. Five tourists at Hermsdorf were watching a torrent from a bridge, which was swept away, drowning them all. A mother, who saved her seven children at. Agnetendorf, went back to save a goat, but was drowned in the attempt. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. BERLIN, July 4. Thirteen persons were killed and 50 were injured in the village Woltersdorf, near Berlin, through the collapse of a roof under which a crowd was sheltering from a thunderstorm. The roof was struck by lightning and the crowd became panic-stricken.