TORRENTIAL RAINS.
IN SOI'TH APIUOA'. :! CAUSE GREAT LOSS OF LIFE ]AJkT> ■] DAMAGE. f 1 :.fi C»b)c A-speiatioa ? Received Feb, 18, !>-1 o tun. jj » Durban, Feb. }7. ■ Torrential ruins have occurred ill tile ' Transvaal, Nutal and Mozambique ,TJitn ,*~ t > were many wash-aways ami bridge col- *4l lapses. , The Railway Department is advised • j that three hundred were drowned at Un- J mt\, Zuiui«iid. , j A later message state* that the {!«• | foiosi #igar district in gjjluland was tho scene of a disaster. Following a great .• J ptorm the river swept oyer the vjHag*, \-<i inundated a large sitgar area, and wfleak- . cd the splendid railway bridge. Sfjjjty- ! .'i three ;of three hundred Europeans in tijp V j valley! are missing. Others are refuging '-', i on the roof of the sugar mill. It is feared .»! the loss of Indian and native lives la ,-s heavy. Railway and telegraphic com* v 'j munication is interrupted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 5
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152TORRENTIAL RAINS. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 5
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