The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-23
TIE GREAT STORM In EUROPE.
PARTICULARS OF IT'S RAvA
Especial dispatch to the New York, Herald by.
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Especial dispatch to the New York, Herald BY !.
LONDON, March IS. 1876
The present week has been the stormiest
which has been experienced In England
during the past hundred years. There have
been terrible gales, storms and floods in Eng
land, France, Germany and Belgium.
In London many barges were sunk in The
Thames. On Sunday last number Of houses
were unroofed and many persons injured By
the falling material
A large portion Of the country districts Il
under water.
A remarkable accident occurred on Sunday.
telegraph wire was broken by the force Il
the wind. and in its retraction almost severed
the head of an omnibus driver from his body.
A fearful accident occurred at Caub, small
town of Northern Germany, on the Rhine. A.
mountain which overhanes the town threat-
ened land slip some weeks ago. A wall,
thirty feet high, had been built for the pro-
lection Of the town. Last Sunday an earth
fail from the mountain occurred, breaking
down the wall and buryiug portion Of the
town under the earth. Twenty-nine Of the
killed.
Troops we're dispatched to the scene ss0f
disaster to exsricats The sufferers and assist
the miners in searching for the dead. SiE
mangled bodies have been recovered 80 fay,
and $50 persons have been temporarily 90
oommodated with shelter and food.
The German government is greatly blamed.
as the inhabitants of Caub years ago peti-
toned the authorities for the removal Of the
threatening rocks
Your Berlin correspondent telegraphs that
the gale extended over the whole of the west
of Europe. It blew in circular form, from tha
north in France and from the south in Bel
GUM.
In Germany the storm caused terrible inun-
dations; houses were unroofed, the steeples Of
churches blown down, telegraphs prostratsd
and railroad tr scks washed away.
In several PLACES earthquake shocks wore
felt during the prevalence of the storm.
There have been several shipwrecks.
The loss OF life by the visitation is COM
paratively small.
have injured the young crops, and . nov
sowing will be necessary in many places.
Many persons in Berlin have been rendered
homeless.
Your Vienna correspondent teleRraphs that
in Bohemia and Hungary enormous tracts Of
country and above q hundred townships have
been flooded during the past twenty dayl
In the neghborhood' of Vienna the losses in
house property, railways and agriculture
amount to 81, 25O. 600.
In Hungary the total loss as foreseen, will
amount to $40, 000. 600, of which one. half falls
ON the agricultural interests. x.een hun
bred thousand acres of arabic land in Hum
gary ore i'll inundated.
The loss of house property is inealculabls.
Whole villages have almost disappeared;
others are in ruins At Buda-Pesth 100
houses have already collapsed, and 1t is feared
whole blocks will fall.
Within twenty -four days the Danube, which
rose twenty-four feet above the low water
level, has only fallen eighteen inches.
The action Of the authorities il praise
worthy. The actual loss of life in Hungary
and Austria is below forty, but many persons
have died from exposure and illness.
Fever is spreading and great distress pre-
wallis among the people along the river from
Comorueto Sclavonis.