THE FLOODS IN EUROPE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 60, 20 June 1910, Page 5

THE FLOODS IN EUROPE

SEVERAL TOWNS INUNDATED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Berne, June 17. The streets and quays at Lucerne are flooded by the rising waters of the lake, and the electric light has failed. Serious damage has been caused at Brunnen, Weggis, Vitznau and Fluelen. The gasworks at Zurich are nooaed, the electric light extinguished, and the National Museum inundated. The floods are now abating. ■Twenty-six fatalities are reported in Switzerland. Many soldiers, firemen and engineers are engaged at Basle preventing inundations. CUT OFF AT OBERAMMERGAU. A SERIOUS" POSITION. Received June 19, 5.15 p.m. Vienna, June 17. Seventeen of the 400 visitors cut off at Oberammergau are British and American. Many moved to higher ground, and assisted the, cottagers in saving their furniture. The "Passion Play" will be resumed on Sunday. A' further rise occurred in the rivers of Upper Bavaria, and a rapid rise is expected in the Danube. All bridges on the Loisach river, at Ga'rmisch, ihave been destroyed, and many houses at Weilhelm and Landsberg, on the Ahhea and Lee, are submerged. The situation at Augusturn in serious. Trains from Munich to Frankfort are interrupted. The A'hr carried down many corpses into the Rhine. POSITION IN HUNGARY. OVER 1000 DROWNED. 150 CHILDREN SWEPT AWAY. London, June 18. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that over one thousand were killed by the floods in Hungary, particularly at Banat, where houses, farms, and cattle were swept away. Five hundred houses were levelled at Mehadia, where several hundred bodies were recovered. One hundred school children were drowned at Moluavs, their bodies being carried down the flooded Danube, wherein are many corpses, drowned cattle, and house wreckage.