FLOODS IN SPAIN.
CARTAGENA INUNDATED. CORPSES FLOAT IN STREETS. London, October 3. Renter's correspondent at Madrid telegraphing yesterday, reports that continuous rainstorms have caused Berious floods, especially in the provinces of Valencie and Marcia. Railway traffic has been interrupted, rice, maize, and spice crops have been destroyed, and the town of Cartagena has been inundated, the gas and electricity being cut off. The windows and balconies last night were crowded with people clamoring for help. Mounted police, swimming their horses through the flood in the darkness, were obliged to anandon their attemnts to relieve these people, but manv were rescued with ropes. The cemeteries in the suburbs disgorged their dead, and corpses were conspicuous among the flotsam tossing in the torrents in the streets.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1919, Page 3
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124FLOODS IN SPAIN. Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1919, Page 3
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