Terrible floods

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 221, 18 March 1914, Page 5

Terrible floods

A DEVASTATING WATERSPOUT., (iREAT LOSS OF LIFE. "* I3y Cable—Press Association—Copyright St. Petersburg, March 18. . A fierce gale swept over the Kubtn district for ten hours on Friday night A waterspout devastated six Village! from Esir to the Strait of Ketch, be. ween the. Sea of Azoff and the Black -'ea. One hundred and sixty-seven navvlef «n the Kuban railway, who were sleep* "« in huts, fled before the flood and took refuge in railway carriages, whidt the flood swept' away. , When the flood subsided terrible) scenes were witnessed. Railway carriages and wrecked huts were piled high, with corpses strewn on top. There were only forty-eight survivors, who were miraculously saved on the highest heap. One townsaip, consisting of work* men's dwellings, was overwhelmed, and, out of a thousand men, it is feared thai only eight have been saved. Many per* lished nt Temrjnk. the suva hurricane. plantatninlFoamaged. Suva, March 17. A wireless from the' U«t Group indicates that only sliphi danage wm doi.-,. by Friday's hujricano, .except iit Lomaloma,, wh'.-rc twentyseven native houses were destroyed, and at Bavulu, where the cocoanute wcra badly damaged. The Governnjent it sending relief to the natives. 1