THE GREAT FLOODS IN HOLLAND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2672, 19 January 1916, Page 5

THE GREAT FLOODS IN HOLLAND

QDEEN !, WIffiEIiaM VISITS IHE I DISTRESSED mRIBEEDEVASTATION | By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Amsterdam, January 17. ■ Ho Dn±«h floods aro increasing. The dead at Marten total twenty-two. Qucea Wilhelmina visiicd tho Znyder ; Zee districts and superintended the al- : leviation of the distressed. RUJN AMD DESOLATION. j FINANCIAL LOSS ENORMOUS. I (Reo. January 18, 11.5 p.m.) i Amsterdam) January 18. ' The greater part of the fishing fleet' has been destroyed by the floods; Only ; four houses are undamaged. Two ships lycro lifted on to the roofs ■; of a group of houses, wrecking the dwellings and drowning tie inmates, In another house ffie Sight inmate! clambered from beam to beam as the house settled down, aad when tho waters rose they fell exhausted anti were drowned. ' Tho financial loss is enormous. On the mainland, when the flooio came, tho soldiers heroically dashed ■ into the breaches in the dykes, and ! vainly endeavoured to stem tho tide. i Scores of rich farmers have been made penniless, and it will be years before ; the land recovers its fertility.