FLOODS IN GERMANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9366, 8 February 1909, Page 5

FLOODS IN GERMANY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Berlin, February 6. Extraordinary floods in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, ami the Tyrol, owing to sudden melting of the snows. Whole towos are under water, and the railways in many parts of Saxony use interrupted. Many bridges have been v?recked and the Lahn Valley is a vast lake. The Rhine is expected to reach danger point daily. At Nuremberg I’tgaitz the water rose 12 feet in the night and ran through the streets like a mill stream. The population of Frankfurt and Bamberg are fleeing to the high ground. At Kissingen the whole town is under water. Three famous springs have been flooded and the Casino inundated. The Danube at Regensburg rose ten feet in the night. The stream is full of household utensils, bathing boxes, and agricultural machinery. St. Petersburg, February 7.

Eighteen death sentences J were announced at St. Petersburg yesterday, including fifteen at Irkutsk in connection With the escape of prisoners from Alexandrovsky Prison. SCENES IN DRESDEN. Received February 8, 8.10 a.m. Berlin, February 7, The rivers Rhine, Elbe, Main, Danube and Oder are rising steadily. Many lives have been lost [and already the situation at Dresden is most precarious. The “ice on the Elbe has broken into huge floes 30 centimetres—l3 inches—thick. Enormous crowds from the country side are assembling in the city to watch the ice crashing into the bridges. I has already destroyed the scaffolding of the newly-completed Augustus bridge.