600 DROWNED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 23 July 1934, Page 1

600 DROWNED.

£50,000,000 DAMAGE BY FLOOD. Huge Area Inundated. PARTS OF WARSAW BEING EVACUATED. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Julv 23, 10.55 a.m.) WARSAW, July 22. The Vistula is nineteen feet above normal and is still rising. No ment is expected until July 24. lne earthworks have been reinforced and the evacuation of the low-lying N\ arsaw slums is beginning, with the aid of police salvage crews. An area exceeding that of Wales has been inundated and the death roll ■ is 600. Whole families perished when i their homes were wrecked. Thirteen of j the fifteen inmates of a house at Klenezan were drowned and there were 50 deaths at Nowy Sacz. j A typhus epidemic is feared. The damage is estimated at £50,000,000, including the destruction of 150 villages and hundreds of miles of roads and railways. Thirty-five thousand acres of crops have disappeared in the Sandomierz and Kielce regions. Thousands of farmers are ruined. The trans-Atlantic flyer, Stanislas Skarzynski, is taking supplies to isolated regions. Disaster threatens the area bounded by Cracow, Debica, Bzeszow and Sandomierz. Conditions have improved at Zakopane, enabling the escape of the marooned British tourists.