Wild Weather.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 5

Wild Weather.

ON LAND AND AT SEA.

FLOODS AND INTERRUPTION. [By Eleotbio Telegraph—Copyright; [United Press Association.] (Received 11.0 a.in.) London, March 16. Violent gales continue along the British coasts. The Belgian steamer Bucarest is flying signals of distress at Peterhead. Lifeboats have been launched and rockets got ready. The obsolete battleship Revenge is adrift at Ryde, endangering ship-

ping. The wildest weather is raging :n the Channel. The Newhaven-Dieppe service is suspended. Heavy rains flooded the Thames Valley. Many districts elsewhere are submerged. Stormy conditions also prevail on the Continent. The Rhine Valley is flooded. The Seine is rising, and Paris is alarmed. Many sea and land telegraphs are interrupted. SECURED THEIR REVENGE. (Received 11.20 a.m.) London, March 16. Tugs secured the Revenge, which was undamaged. HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS. NATIVE HOUSES DESTROYED. COCOANUT CROP DAMAGED.

(Received 11.0 a.m.) Suva, March 17

Wireless from the Lau Group indicates that there was only slight ' damage from Friday’s hurricane, except at Lomaloma, where twentyseven native houses were destroyed, and at Bavulu. where the cocoanuts were badly damaged. The Government is sending relief to the natives. A RUSSIAN WATERSPOUT. \ HUTS AND CORPSES PILED HIGH A TOWNSHIP OVERWHELMED. OUT OF 1000 INHABITANTS ONLY EIGHT SAVED. St. Petersburg, March 16. » A fierce gale swept over the Kuoan district for ten hours on Friday night. A waterspout devastated six villages from Esir to Kertch Strait. A gang of 167 navvies on the Kuban railway, sleeping in huts, fled before the flood, and took refuge in carriages, which the flood swept away. When the flood subsided terrible scenes were witnessed. Carriages and wrecked huts were piled high, and corpses were strewn on top. There are only forty-eight survivors, who were miraculously saved on the highest heap. \

One township consisting of workmen’s dwellings was overwhelmed, and out of a thousand it is feared that only eight were saved. Many perished at Temrjuk.

Kuban is a Russian province, part of Caucasia, east of the Sea of Azov. It is an important base for military operations, and has two trunk railways, one running to the Black Sea and the other to the Caspian Sea.

Kertch is a town on the narrow strait leading into the Black Sea. Available authorities do not mention Esir.

Temrjuk is a little eastward of Kertch, on the opposite side of the Strait.

The Kuban, a considerable river, has two mouths—one in tho Sea of Azov and another in tho Black Sea.