FLOODS IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 426, 8 February 1909, Page 5

FLOODS IN GERMANY.

'TOWNS UNDER WATER.

RHINE AND DANUB| RUNNING, HIGH. • : -V-vv -PEOPLE FLEEING. ,^ (DT TELEGIIArH—rttISSS ASSOCIATION—COPIBtaHT.! .: (Reo. February 7, 4.25 p.m.) '"■'< Berlin, February 6/ Extraordinary floods occurred in Saxony 1 , Thuringia/ Bavaria, and the Tyrol,'owing to the sudde\. melting of snows. - 1 ;; .'. '\. '■;. ;Wholo tovMisarq under water, and railways iii .many.; parts of Saxony \ are interrupted. Many'bridges have been wrecked. ;' ' ; :■'.. ..-■ .' Tho.valley of the Lahn'.(a tributary of tho Rhine) is a vast'lake Thevßhine is expected' to reach the danger-point daily.,) / ' ,•■ -. : ; At, Nuremborg'(the' commercial .capital; of ; Bavari"a) the;river Pegnitz. (a tributary of ..the Regnitz) rose twelve feet in a:night, and ran, through the streets like a mill-stream. -. At Bamberg' (a town;of some; '35,000 inhabitants on the Regnitz, three miles' above;- its confluence .with : the' Main) arid at. Frankfurt '(a city of some' 200,000 inhabitants' on: the v , Main,.:nineteen miles above, its' .fluencp with •the Rhine)' the population is fleeing for safety .'to; high'ground; ~ : ■'.':, ", At the Bavarian, watering-place, Kissingen', (noted ifor its three springs, large quantities of tho -water of,.which are exported iri-bottle) the old town:'is .under' water.;. The.three famous saline springs ar<i \flbpded> : 9The 'casino is,inundated^', '■'; [<■■.'...!■:.■: ,'■, The''l)anube : ; at ■; Regerisbiirg; rose ■ ten-- feet i in a night. .:Th'e, stream is: full of household ■utensils,'.:- bathing;:' boxes,;; and''agricultural mabhinery.;■.:; fe ' ; : ; : -. : '^/"\