FLOODS IN RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 5

FLOODS IN RUSSIA.

VILLAGES DEVASTATED BY

WATERSPOUT.

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.

St. Petersburg, March 16,

A fierce gale swept over the Kaban district for ten hours on Friday night. A waterspout devastated six villages from Esir to Kertop Strait.

Navvies to the number of 176 on the Kaban railway, who were sleeping in huts, fled before the flood, and took refuge in carriages, which the flood swept away. When the flood subsided terrible scenes were witnessed. Carriages and wrecked huts were piled high, and corpses were strewn on top. There were only 48 survivors, who were miraculously saved on the highestheap. One township consisting of- workmen's dwellings was overwhelmed, and out of a thousand inhabitants it is feared that only eight were saved.

Many perished at Tomsjuk.