JUGO-SLAV DISASTER
TOWN PARTLY DESTROYED
BY FLOOD AND CYCLONE.
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VIENNA, August 24,
At .least fifty people have been ' drowned as the result of a sudden flood at Skopje, in Jugc-Slavia.
! A cyclone whirled through the town at midnight, uprooting the trees and throwing them across the roads.
Then there followed a cloudburst, sweeping over the mountains. that surrounded the town. A deluge poured down through every valley towards the town. The panic-stricken people dashed hither and thither in their frantic attempts to escape.
The Mohammedan quarter of the town was wiped out in a few moments. '
The cafes and houses collapsed and the electricity gave out. The resultant darkness increased the horror of the visitation.
j Eight hundred buildings were destroyed, and there are seven hundred families left homeless. ;
The torrent remorselessly rushed on, and-destroyed villages in the same valley. N v.
The total of the .casualties''-■ndll not; be known for some'days. 537^
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1929, Page 6
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