The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-11-29
Floods.

is floods are now in order our readers
vii! not regard rs irksome some reference
10 foods in time past.
Ia the annals OF great floods in this coun-
try noted one occurred in the Mississippi
river in 1929. New Orleans was almost
completely submerged. On May j.. 1929,
100 squares and 1000 houses were flooded.
The loss was immense.
The annals of this kind III Great Britain
show that that country has suffered greatly.
The record there began at an early day. A
food in Lincolnshire rs early rs 4. D. 245
inundated vast surfaces. and another in
Cheshire in 353 drowned 5000 inhabitants.
One in Glasgow in 75S drowned 400 fami-
lies. The Severn overlooked in 1883 and
carried off people in their beds, and again in
1907 en- overflow rose to the tops OF houses
and drowned 100 persons i'll Somersetshire
and Worcestershire. The Moray floods in
Scotland on August ., 1929. destroyed much
life and property. The spey and Findhorn
rose fifty feet and swept of many people
and houses. .-.. ..'
Holland has been the victim OF calamities
bv floods, but they were from the breaking
OF dykes that let in the sea. The sea thus
broke in at bort April II, 1446, and
drowned seventy-two villages and one hun
dred thousand people. There was a gen.
eral inundation upon the failure OF dykes
in Holland in 1880, by which four hundred
thousand people lost their lives.
France has had her share Of disasters by
water. In Navarro 1000 people lost their
lives by the torrents from the mountains Ill
1857. In 1881, from October 31st to No
yenber 4th, there was dreadful lnunda-
tion in France. The Saone poured its flood
into the Rhone, and covered G0,00O acres.
LYONS was inundated. In Aryigron 100
houses were swept away; in La Gu!llo-
there 21S houses in Nai>e, Marseilles, and
vismes upward OF 800. The Saone had not
reached such height before for 2Ss years
Another inundation in France occurred in
1886. when the Loire rose twenty feet IN
one nirht. Bridges and houses were swept
away. The Orleans viadnct was carried of
Property to the value of $2o,00o,000 was
destroyed.
Spain has her story. In Catalonia tlooc
in 1911 drowned $4,000 people. In 172s
there was another in which there was grea
loss OF life, including several of the Span
ish nobility of Madrid. In 1902, by tht
bursting OF reservoir at the town O.
Lorca, 1000 people persisted.
AT Pesth, near Presburg, in Hungary, BY
the overflow Of the Danube in April, 1911
tyenty-four villages and their inhabtant
were swept away. A dreadful inundatiol
of the Danube occurred i'll the summer o.
1913. in which there was great loss IN Po
land and Austria and Hungary. ATurkisl
corps Of 1000 men were surprised by tn
flood at Widden and drowned. In Silesia
Austria, the same year, 5000 inhabitant
were drowned, and the ruin Of the Frencl
army under MACDONALD was accelerated b.
the floods. The estimated loss OF life tn
same year in Poland was 1000.
at Vienna, in 1890, the houses OF 5000
Inhabitants were submerged.
The accounts OF losses in the Pacif
islands and China are innumerable. AUS
trala has been terribly afflicted by the de
structiye floods that are caused By the de
luging rains that sometimes follow the loni
dry seasons. In lands where rainy season
succeed prolonged dryneSs there is gene
rally greater injury from floods than Their
is in our part OF the United States, wber
the rains are distributed at short interval
over the seasons. We should except Cali
fornia from this remark; for that Paciti
land seems TO be reigned over by natura
order that makes its rains gentle, and save
ittrom violent weather manifestations. It
rainy season is more peaceful than sue
season is In almost any other land. No
are we in danger OF such floods ms some
times spread disaster and ruin in man
parts Of Europe. We have no fear OF inun
dattons from the sea, and we have not sue
elevations as the Alpine and other mour
tain heights to send down their dissolyin
SHOWS TO reinforce the rains and bear dow
everything with their flood.
Certainly there Is much satisfaction 10
our people in remembering that il we hay
not the tallest mountains ge have not til
troubles that they give to the lands whic
poast them aud that Ii we have not som
o. Tue advantages OF culture where, til
Iains come not for months, we are not al