TERRIBLE STORMS.
IX IC If ROPE. RRrOGICS WASIUCD AWAY. WI.DICSPREAD DEVASTATION. [by klkothio tei>kguapu--coi'yiuoht.l I PER rUKSS AHSOrivriON.'i RERTdX, Juno 10. Twenty bridges have been destroyed in the Alir Valley. Engineers and infantry corps are constructing temporary substitutes. Several villages have been wrecked. At Obeiramniergau the river Ammor rose rapidly, and flooided the roads and railway, isolating the town and threatening the Passion Play theatre. A bridge over the Ahr .alt Seliulda, crowded with people wa.t.ehin.g the flooded river, collapsed. Tt is repiM'ted that lot) deaths occivrred. Already -I:) bodies lvave lcen washed ashore. The Valley of the M'euse 'lia.s been devastated. The smaller rivers rose lo feet 'ill an hour. bridges have been destroyed, and towns and the cot ml! rysido are flooded. A large lium-bar of cattle and sheet]) have- been drowned.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 June 1910, Page 3
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134TERRIBLE STORMS. Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 June 1910, Page 3
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