Daily Republican., 1879-03-13
FROM AUSTRIA.

!, A Town wholly bubmers ed
| DreaAfel Scene-Terribie Loss
. Lifo-The Survivors Fleeing 1
. safety-The city . Mass OF Ruiz
For well-nigh week Szegedin, t
, e1sscond cenmeroisl town In Hunear
has been in imminent danger of inu
dation from the River Thesis, viii,
flows through the town. Notwit
standing that every effort was made
save the city, the last dam was swel
away at 3 o'clock Wednesday morninl
Dispatches give the following:
LONDON, March ia dispatch I
the "Daily News" from szegsdin thi
"Wednesday )morning at s o'clock says
AFTER fearful night of anxiety al
efforts are useless. The water brok
through with immense force at 3 o 'cloc
carrying away part Of the railroad sta
tlon embankment and rolling stock
Within three hours the town was man
feet deep in water. Terrible sutferin'
is beginning. Shrieks and cries fror
many thousands are heard. House
are crashing by the score, and in man,
cases carrying their inmates witl
them. God knows what we shall d
tonight. There is no gas, the work
being fifteen feet in the water. l fea
we shall run short of food. One / "a
was just going to save large houseful
of people, when q fearful crash carried
with it the whole living freight. The
scsne is simply heartrending. Nor,
than eighty thousand people are out o
house and home. Hundreds are drown
ing, and the water is still rising rapid
ly."
PEsTH, March 12-Evening.-Th.
lates kilograms announce that the flood,
with terrific roar, is rushing from two
sides over Szegsdin. The horrors Of the
battle all description. TIE
town is, in fact, destroyed. Two-third. .
of it are now submerged, including the
citadel and the post and telegraph Off
ass. Whole rows of houses are falling.
All the inmates of the former were
buried in the ruins. Two mannfactor-
les are on fire. The inhabitant. are
lying to New Szegedin and the more
elevated parts of the town.
The municipality Of Pesth is making
'very effort to send assistance to Siege
lin. Two relief trains have already
tarted. Accommodations for the fugitives
lave been provided in the barracks and
public buildings Of Pesth.
LONDON, March l2.-An official tele-
,ram, dated Pesth, GO P. M, just re-
eived, confirms the reports of the ter
ible aspect of the town, and the de-
truclion of hundreds of houses. 1t
tates, that the removal Of the inhabi-
ants is proceeding without disorder.
o far only four corpses have been
'und. The dams are being cut in
everal places to allow the water to be
un off. No excesses are reported, but
recautions have been taken for the
rejection Of property.
LONDON, March l3.-Ths "Stand-
rd's" despatch from Pesth says: A
undred square miles of the neighbor-
ood of Szegedin are flooded. The crops
n this district are lost. The Govern
tent has sent 10000 forms for the
,lief of the inhabitants. The Radicals
the Diet to-day violently attacked
10 Government for neglecting to take
recautions to prevent the calamity.
LONDON, March 13.-The "Daily
ews" has the following despatch from ;
5 special correspondent:
Szegedin, Wednesday, 7 P. NJ
nee my last telegram the water has
sen in the town five feet. Our situa- -,
Oh is becoming worse and worss. Six
thousand persons are at present
ithout roof to cover them. 1t is O
ared the loss of life has been very
eat, and that it will Increase during !
lis terrible night. !
The foregoing despatch coming di- Q
city from the spot is probably more
1st worthy than official accounts pre- I
Dusly received from Pesth. The vol. a
At attacks in the Hungarian Diet
ssibly cause the Government to make a
report of the disaster as favorable o
possible.
Accounts of the disaster received d
m Vienna, say the upper floors of all
yh houses ale crammed with people Il
momentary fear of death. 1t is L
ought some few houses, which are b
ill of stone, may stand. q
The "Times'" correspondent at Pesth
the calamity at Szegedin, CT
IS there was at first false alarm, at ii
'clock on Tuesday evening, raised by ,
pc workmen on the enbankment, n. =.
o wished to desert. Towards mid 70
hit, the workmen, in consequence of al
increase of the gale, were contin- +,
ly overtaken by the waves. They III
re only kept to their posts by cor. tn
of soldiers. The water repeatedly
reed the enbankment at single points. l,
,ut 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday IN
Mug the embankment at single Iho
nts vie ed simultaneously. The in
eral in command then ordered the
ndonment of the works.
dispatch to the "Times' from
III states that the latest report this
ming from a special Government
at Szegedin says besides the
corpses which have been brought VI,
thirty more are reported from other ",
rters. Several fires have occurred, va on
there are strong suspicious Of in 3,
liarism. The water is still rising, III,
communication towards Temes war ca
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