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DELHI FLOOD HORRORS. LADIES’ AWFUL EXPERIENCE. (Sun Special). CALCUTTA, October 18. That they had no comb or soap is the only complaint of two European ladies who had a brain-torturing experience in the fiods in the Delhi district. Returning home from Delhi, along the railway line, they were overtaken by roaring floods and compelled to take refuge in a tiny wayside station within sight of their home. For three days and nights they were marooned, in company with Indian peasants, and almost foodless. They watched their home and another station being carried away, and observed signals made by the husband of one of them, who was stranded on a mound which was half a mile away from the station, and which was slowly crumbling away, when he was rescued by two European engineers, at the peril of their lives. During the three days numbers of people and cattle were drowned before their
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Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 5
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153MAROONED Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 5
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