FLOODS IN GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 2

FLOODS IN GERMANY.

WIDESPREAD JDE VAST ATIQN; FLIGHT TQiTIJE HIGH IjANDB. [Peess Association. — Copyright. J Received Feb. 7, 4.25, -p.in.":: ■ ' .'•••■■ Berlin, Wo.jp? ':. There have .been extraordinary floods in Saxony, Tburniay •Bavaria and the Tyrol, owing to the BiiddiSn melting of tbe anows. Whole tpWns are under water, and tbe railways in many parts of Saxony are injtorruptecl. Many bridges weie wrecked t ' and the Lahn Valley is a vast lake. , The Rhine is expected to '"reacb the danger point daily. At...Muremberg and Jb'egnitz it rose twelvjß. feet in : a ni^ht, and' ran through/ ;the> streets like a mill stream, the'popiJlation of Frankfurt and , Ban t>erg fleeing to high ground. ' '.''•■ . "- Kissicgen^ an old town, is under water. Three of ttia famous saline Bpiings are £ooded, and the Casino is inundated. ' ':';*■ Thp Danube at Kegensfciurg rose ten feet in a night, tne stream being full of household utensils, bathing boxes and agricultural machinery. ;■ ' ■' ' •