DISASTROUS FLOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 131, 20 February 1918, Page 7

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED, Durban, Fobruary 17.

Torrential rains in tho Transvaal, Natal, and Mozambique^.Resulted ill many wnsha-ways , and" bridge collapses. The Railway Department is advised that three hundred wcro drowned- at Mnzutie, in Zululand. A later message states that the Umfolosi sugar district, in Zululand, was tho scono of a disaster, following a great storm. The river swept ovor the village, inundated a largo sugar area, and wrecked a splendid railway bridge. Sisty-tlirep of thrco liundrorl Europeans in the vallny aro missing, while others aro, seeking rofuge in the roof of the sugar null. It is feared that the loss of Indian native lives will he heavy. Railway and telegraphic communication arc interrupted.—Renter. Durban, February 13. The flood in TJnsfolosi swept away the railway station, an hotel, mid a hundred Indian native cottages. —Renter. RAILWAY SMASH IN SPAIN TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED. Madrid, Fobruary 17. As tho result of a railway collision between Barcelona and Menida twelve people were killed and thirty-two were injured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMAN CONCENTRATION NEAR THE TRENTINO Rome, Fobruary 17. Correspondents report n large concentration of Germans in Southern Bavaria and the Tyrol with the object nf preventing a move against the Trcn-tino.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.