FLOOD TRAGEDY
‘;‘ ?i '■ 100 PEOPLE TRAPPED. •MANY LIVES LOST.' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright.) A. • : / PARIS, July 141 ■ Torrential rains in the mountains at •'Nice caused a wall, of water to sud-' ■ denly descend in the river Prillon, '.trapping mor.ei than oma' hundred destitute people sleeping .under the bridges and in riverside vaults from which dame agonising screams. Firemen ■ low"ered ropes in the gjlare of motor lieod--'lights, but many wiere too frenzied to grasp the dines. It is feared there will be a heavy death roll. - , , w .l * Vt - tV
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1932, Page 5
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90FLOOD TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1932, Page 5
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