THOUSAND DROWNED

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 847, 20 June 1910, Page 5

THOUSAND DROWNED

$ APPALLING FLOODS. HUNGARIAN TOWN LEVELLED. - DANUBE FILLED WITH CORPSES. 150 SCHOOL-CHILDREN DROWNED. By TeleKrann-Press Assomtion-aoDjrieln (Roc. June 19, 5 p.m.) London, Juno 18. The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" • states that over a thousand have been killed by the floods in Hungary. The floods were particularly disastrous in tho Banat district, which includes a largo tract of ■ marshy country between the Danube and Maros Rivers, in Southern Hungary, and is an important graingrowing district. Houses, farm-buildings, and cattle were swept away in the flood-waters in tbis district. ' Five hundred houses were levelled at Mehadia, a market-town and fashionable watering place in Croatia, with a population of 3000. Sevoral hundred bodies have been recovered there. At Moluavs 150 6chool-children were drowned. Their bodies were carried into tho Danubo, in whoso flooded waters can be seen corpses, the bodies of cattle, and quantities of house wreckage. WATERS RISING IN BAVARIA, MUCH DAMAGE DONE. Berlin, June 17, Four hundred American and British visitors were in Ober-Ammergau, attending the Passion Play, when the floods came. Many moved on to higher ground and assisted the cottagers in saving their furniture., The Passion Play is to be resumed on June 19. A further rise of tho rivers in Upper Bavaria is reported. A rapid rise 'of the Danubo is also expected. All the bridges over the Loisach River at Garaisch, Upper Bavaria (population 2000) have been destroyed. Many houses in Weilheim (population 4000), and Landsberg (population 5000), on the Amper and Lech, have been submerged. The situation in Augusturn is serious. Trains between Munich (tho Bavarian capital), and Frankfort (Prussia), are interrupted. The River Ahr (Prussia) has carried many corpses into the Rhine. i LUCERNE AND ZURICH INUNDATED. ' TWENTY-SIX LIVES LOST. Berne, June 17.-. Tho streets and quays of Lucerne aro flooded, and the electric light has failed. Serious damago is reported to have been done by the floods at the towns of Brunnen, Weggis, Vitznau, and Fluelen, popular tourist resorts on the shores of the Lake of- Lucernß. ' At Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, with a population of about 200,000, the gasworks aro flooded, and the electric light has been extinguished. One of the most magnificent of tho newer buildings in Zurich, the Swiss National Museum, is inundated. ' This museum, which was opened in 1898, contains a wonderful collection of Swiss antiques, and art treasures of all kinds, some of them being placed in rooms of tho actual date, removed from various ancient buildings.

The floods are now abating. Twentysix fatalities have go far been reported in Switzerland,