FLOODS IN SPAIN.
RIVERSI DE DWELLERS’ PITIABLE PLIGHT. MANY BULLS DROWNED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. (Received 15, 8.5 a.m.) Madrid, February 14. Twelve riverside villages on the banks of the Gaudalquiver, with a population of thirty-four thousand, have not a house above flood level. The first boats with broad from Seville reached the villages after the inhalrtauts had starved for six days. There were many deaths from drowning and exposure. llulls at Villa Franca, near Lisbon, which were in training for Spanish bull fights, stampeded owing to a gale destroying their sheds, and plunged into the Tagus. Over a thousand were drowned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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