Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-03-29
.EUROPE,S DELUGE.


LONDON, March 1S.-The present
week has been the stormicst which
has ever been experienced i'm En-
gland during the past hundred years.
There have been terrible gales.
storms and floods in England, France.
Germany. and Belgium.
In London many barges were sunk
in the Thames. On Sunday last a
number OF houses were unrOofed and
many persons injured by falling ma
terial. A large portion of the coun-
try districts is under water. A re-
markable accident occurred OH Sun
day. A telegraph wire was broken
by the force of the wind, and i'm its
reaction almost severed the head OF
an omnibus-driver from his body.
A fearful accident occurred at
Caub, a small town i'm Northern Ger
many, on the Rhine. A mountain
which overhangs the town threaten
ed a landslide some weeks ago. A
wall thirty feet high had been built
for the protection of the town. Last
Sunday an earth-fall from the noun
tain occurred, breaking down the
wall and burying portion of the
town under the earth. Twenty -nine
of the inhabitants of Caub and many
cattle We're killed. Troops were dis
patched to the scene of disaster to
help to extricate the sufferers and as
sist miners i'm searching for the dead.
Six mangled bodies have been recov-
cred so far, and $50 persons have been
temporarily accommodated with
shelter and food. The German Gov
eminent is greatly blamed, as the in
habitants of Caub years ago petition
ed the authorities for the removal of
the threatening rocks.
Your Berlin correspondent tele-
graphs that the gale extended over
the whole of the West of Europe. 1t
blew i'm circular form from the North
of France, and from the South of Bel
GUM. In Germany the storm caused
terrible foundations; houses were UNI
rooted, the steeples Of churches blown
down, telegraphs Frustrated, and the
railroad tracks washed away. In sew
eral places earthquake shocks were
felt during the prevalence of the
storm. There have been several
shipwrecks, The loss of life by the
visitation is comparatively small.
The foundations consequent upon
the storm have injured the young
crops, and new sowing will be nee
essary in many places. Many persons
in Berlin have been rendered home
less.
Your Vienna correspondent tele-
graphs that in Bohemia and Hunga-
ry enormous tracts of country and
above 100 townships have been flood
ed during the past twenty days. In
the neighborhood of Vienna the loss
es i'm house property, railways and
agriculture amount to $l,250,OO0. In
Hungary, the total loss as foreseen
will amount Sic, 100000, of which one
half falls on the agricultural inter-
ests. Sixteen hundred thousand
acres of arabic land i'm Hungary are
still inundated. The loss of house
property is invaluable. Whole VIII
lagos have almost disappeared 9TH
crs arc in ruins. At Buda-Pestll 100
houses have already collapsed, and it
is feared that whole blocks will fall.
Within tw cnty -four days the Danube.
which rose twenty-four feet above
low water level. has only fallen eigh-
teen inches. The action of the au-
thorities is praiseworthy. The ac-
tual loss of life in Hungary and Aus
tria is below forty, but many have
died from exposure and illness. Fe-
yer is spreading and great distress
prevails among the people along the
river from Cornorn to Sclavonia.