FLED BEFORE FLOOD.
WATERSPOUT AFTERMATH. RUSSIAN NIGHT OF HORROR. WRECKAGE STREWN WITH DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received March 17, 10.50 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, March 16. A fierce gale swept over the Kuban district for ten hours on Friday night, and a waterspout devested six villages from Esir to Kertoh Strait..-
A party of 176 navvies on the Kuban railway, sleeping in huts, fled before the flood and took refuge in carriages, which the flood swept away. When the flood subsided terribls scenes were witnessed. Carriages and wrecked huts were piled high, with corpses st+ewn on t-op. 1 here were only 48 survivors, who were miraculously saved on the highest heap. One township, consisting oi workmen's dwellings, was overwhelmed, and out of a thousand it ig. feared only eight were saved. Many perished at Temrjuk. (Tho district of Kuban is in Ciscaucasia bounded on tho weist by tho bea of Azov, and bordering to some extent on the Black Sea. its people are largely Cossacks.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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164FLED BEFORE FLOOD. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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