HUNDREDS DROWSED

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 5

HUNDREDS DROWSED

« TERRIBLE FLOODS. IN GERMANY, SERYIA, AND TURKEY IN ASIA. FATAL DRINKING BOUT: PEOPLE IN TREES PERISH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. June 10, 10.40 p.m.) Berlin, June 16. Further reports of the floods detail horrible scenes in the valley of the Ahr (a small noil-navigable tributary of the Rhino, in the Eliine province, Prussia, between Cologne and Coblenz). The can teen-keepers tied at the approach of the waters, and urged a number of Italian and Croatian railway labourers to do likewise. Tho labourers refused to listen to these warnings, and, taking advantage of the absence of the canteenkeepers, seized the wine and spirits. Free drinking resulted in 70 becoming intoxicated. The river rose and drowned them. A-number of villagers failed to reach the hills and took refuge in trees, which later were torn up by the torrent, drowning tho people who . had sought sanctuary in them. It is estimatod that at least .100 persons wore drowned in the Ahr Valley. At Obcraimnergau, wliero tho Aminer .rose and isolated t'l\o town, 100 visitors arc cut off. Many thoroughfares in the south-west of Berlin (on the Spree) are flooded three to six- feet deep. HALF A TOWN SWEPT AWAY. DISASTER ON THE ARAXES. (Rec. June 16, 10.40 p.m.) Constantinople, June IG. ' A disaster has been caused by \ floods at ITassan-kaleh, on the head waters of the Arus (Arases), situated in tho Turkish vilayet of Erzerum, Turkey in Asia. A wall of water swept away half the town. Hundreds were drowned. IN SERVIA. THIRTY-FIVE LIVES LQST. Belgrade, June 15. Torrential rains in Servia devastated tho valley of the Morava, a large river entering the Danube thirty miles southeast of Belgrade. The villages of Jagodin'n, Svilainatz, and Tchoupria (? Chupria) were submerged. Thirty-five persons wero drowned.