ALGERIAN FLOODS

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 9

ALGERIAN FLOODS

SIXTY EUROPEANS PERISH. BUILDINGS WIPED OUT. (BT CABLE—PECS 3 ASSOCUTIOK—COPYSIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 29th, 9.20 p.m.) ALGIERS, November 28. Graphic details are to hand of the flood in which 60 Europeans and hundreds of Algerians perished. Two-storey houses in the path of the torrent disappeared, and whole families were lost along with the houses. Within half an hour the law Courts and 60 large buildings had been obliterated, and the place where they stood is now a ravine 60 feet deep. The lightly-constructed Algerian quarters were swept away like chaff, and sleepers were drowned in hundreds. It is estimated that the torrent travelled at a rate of 100 miles" an hour. RESCUE WORK BY SOLDIERS. (Sydney "Sun" Seevice.) (Received November 29th, 9.20 p.m.) ALGIERS, November 28. A sergeant of the Chasseurs D'Afrique, learning that many babies were isolated in a flood-bound train, swam his horse for a distance of a mile carrying milk. A soldier swam out and brought back a baby whose cradle was balanced on the edge of a ravine near the house where the family had perished.