HEAVY FLOODS IN EUROPE.
< WHOLE TOWNS UNDER WATER. •THE RHINE AND DANUBE RISINU PEOPLE FLEEING TO HICIi GROUND. i Received 7, 4.25 p.m. « Berlin, February ti. * Extraordinary floods have occurred in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Tyrol, owing to the sudden melting »f snow. "Whole towns are under water, while the railways in many parts of Saxony are interrupted. Many bridges are (wrecked. The Lahn Valley is a vast lake. The river Rhine is expected to reach the danger point daily. At Nuremberg and Peynitz the river rose twelve feet in the night and ran through the streets like <a mill stream. The population of Frankfurt and Banberg are fleeing to high ground. Kissingen, an old town, is under water. Three famous saline springs are Hooded and the Casino is inundated. The Danube at Regensburg rose ten feet in the night. The stream is full of household utensils, bathing boxes and agricultural machinery.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 12, 8 February 1909, Page 3
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153HEAVY FLOODS IN EUROPE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 12, 8 February 1909, Page 3
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