FLOODS IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1928, Page 5

FLOODS IN INDIA

RAILWAYS DESTROYED

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

DELHI, October 26

It is officially stated that twelve railway bridges were washed away in the Madras floods. The floods are now subsiding. Mail train passengeis at Tuni were conveyed by boat to Coconada. The town is isolated. Rain fell at Karachi to-day, for the first time for fourteen months, thus averting a serious water famine. I his is the longest drought there for twenty years.

A TALE OF GREAT HAVOC

DELHI, October 27

The havoc' caused by the floods in the East Gudaveri district on the Madras Coast was related by villagers, who were rescued after having been marooned for nearly a week. There were terrible privations. Many were drowned as well as hundreds of cattle and goats. Five hundred houses were, washed away. The inhabitants of Eamalkoi lived since Monday last on the roofs of their houses and trees. Ihe house and trees were surrounded by water, and it was impossible to supply food or to effect any rescue, owing to there being a powerful current. From Tuni Toi to AValtair, the main Madras-Caleutta railway for a distance of eighty miles has been obliterated. It will take months to reconstruct. Immense damage has been caused to roads, buildings, and railway bridges.