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DELHI FLOOD HORRORS. LA I) IKS ’ A V/FUL EX PER IE X€E. CALCUTTA, Oct. IS. That they had no comb or soap is the only complaint of two European ladies, who had a brain-torturing experience in Hie floods in the Delhi district.. Returning home'from Delhi, along tlio railway line, they were overtaken bv roaring floods and compelled to tr.Kc refuge in a tiny wayside station, within sight of their home. For three days and nights they were marooned in company with Indian peasants, and almost toodlAs. They watched their home and another station being carried away, and observed signals made by the husband of one of them, who was stranded on a mound which was half a mite away from the station, and which was slowly crumbling away, when Ire was rescued by two European engineer# at the. peril of their lives. During the three days, numbers m neoole and cattle were drowned before their eyes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 4 November 1924, Page 3
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