FLOODS IN PRUSSIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2056, 25 September 1880, Page 3

FLOODS IN PRUSSIA.

A Berlin telegram, dated August 17th, says:—The reports from the provinces in regard to the floods are worse daily. Not only has Silesia suffered terribly, but also East and West Prussia. The harvest is almost totally destroyed. Things arc so serious that the divisional manojuvres will be put off for the year. It has rained incessantly for three weeks in same parts. A correspondent who penetrated the furthermost parts of Silesia estimates that in one postal district alone the damage done amounts to 130,000 marks, while 200,000 acres of arable Und and pasture ground were inundated by the overflow of the Oder. In the neighborhood of Oppelen 3000 acres of potato fields are covered with water, while clumps of villages are isolated. The rain was eo violent that in a few hours the river Neiese rose six feet. In Posen an immense expanse of meadow is inundated. Not only is erain destroyed, but straw also. It is feared that in some places tbo wetness of the ground may disastrously delay or altogether prevent its preparation for next year’s seed. In the district of Kulm, We.-t Prussia, twenty-four hours of rain completely ruined the harvest, especially wheat. In some parts of East and West Prussia the fields are so impassable that it is impossible to garner what remains of the grain. Potatoes are beginning to rot. It will thus appear that tbo official estimate of the Gorman harvest prospects, recently published, will have to be greatly lowered. Ryo is wholly destroyed. Wheat and barley have little surviving value in the market. For the laboring portion of the community the loss of the potato crop is the moat serious, and tho aid of the Government is already being earnestly invoked.