THE FLOODS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10073, 20 June 1910, Page 5

THE FLOODS.

dV&S, 1,000 LIVES LOST.

United Press Association—uy Eleotrio Telograph Received June 19, 6.14 p.m. LONDON, Jane 19. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that'a thousand persons have been killed as the result of the fiords in Hungary,' particularly at houses, farms, and cattle were swept away. Five hundred houses v. ere levelled to the ground at ■ Mehadia, where several hundred tiudies have been re|covered. One hundred and fifty schoolchildren were drowned at Moluavs and their bodies carried into the flooded Danube, wherein arc piles of house wreckage, and the corpses of cattle. IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND. HOUSES SUBMERGED. MANY BRIDGES DXSTRGYE'J. , Received June 18, 9.40 a.m. . BERLIN, Jm* 18; Cf 400 Americans and British visitors in ; Oceraonmcrgau many moved to higher ground, and assisted the cottagers in 'saving .their firm'-, tnre. . The Passion Play will be resulted on the 19th inst. " A further rise of the rivcis in Upper Bavaria ia reporte-.). A rapid rise of the Danube is also expected. All the bridges over tho Loisach river at Garmisch. Upper Bavaria, have been destroyed. Many houses in ;■ Weilhgim and Landsberg, on the Araper and Lech, have been submerged. The situation in Auguajurn in serious. \ Trains between Munich, the Bavarian capital, and Frankfort (Prussia) are interrupted. v The River Ahr (Prussia) has.carrie many corpses into, the Rhine.