The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-06

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A TERRIBLE DEYASTATION.,
The Recent Floods In whole
Towns swept Away, and Thousands
of People Swallowed up I'm Watery
Graves Thrilling Incidents.
A London special Of the 24th to the
New York Herald gives the following
graphic account of the terrible effects
Of the recent heavy rains and floods in
Spain:.o 5l'i .rs-
Full news has been brought to the papers
this morning of the terrible floods that devas-
tated the valleys of the MundO and Seguera.
Murcia is little known to travellers in Spain,
for the Mediterranean steamers touch Mt Ali
cante. to the north of 1t, and at Cartagena, to
"reminiscences, the architectural designs of its
Cathedral, the bas reliefs and heavy stone
statues in its passages, Its horseshoe-formed
when the was Of csef 5s
possessions in SPAIN. The present summer
has been unusually hot. Even this tOrrid re-
gion had known no such heat for genera
ton. For months not a cloud had been seen,
not a drop of rain had fallen, the dust had not
had the power to raise itself from the road.
The river had been, as the Spaniarts say, bled,
npvd 20 Sntp <tn.pA e.
seemed extinct. Carriages would drive
along its empty bed through banks Of
tall bamboo. On Tuesday last few people ven
tured into the streets during the daytime, but
in the evening there was general movement
of carriages and fOOt.passengers toward the
Alameda. which stands high, and from which
the view extends over the river and the cam.
O'Clock when the approach of a cold and biting
wind was felt from the direction of Cartagena.
The sky clouded over. In an instant there was
gathering of fans and mantillas, and the
crowd turned hastily homeward. Soon the
storm was bowling over the town and amid
the streets, and tore through the houses. 1t
seemed to be falling in broad sheets of water.
No such tempest had been seen within the
memory of the inhabitants.
Shortly after midnight the serOnO watch
man was going his rounds when, as he passed
over the bridge that leads to the plaza and
divides the town into two portions, he saw a
black stream of water rushing between the
arches. He found that the river was rising
rapidly. 1t had already OverflOwed the banks,
and was stealthily climbing over the stone
parapet which protects the frontage. The
He hurried to a clOck-tOwer which gives sig
nails of fire and of other catastrOphies to
dweilers by the water>side and set the bell in
the Few Of fem ad TIME to dc
than snatch up little clothing. Down the
main street, the Gale del Caballeros, rushed
afrighted women. Bands of swarthy gitana
49,
in their blue velvet jackets stood helplessly
in the principal promenade. The authorities
Mt once proceeded to organize assistance for
beneath the level Of the Hood. sAswe walked
about" says one of the sufferers, I'VE could
hear the distant roar of the water tearing past
in the Seguera until low rumbling crashes told
or the 1nundatiOn breaking into the streets.
Suddenly all the gas-lights went out. Then
everybody knew that the flood was advancing.
From street, from square, from balcony and
The confusion was Unparalleled. Through
gardens, vineyards, mulberry groves, the
Murcians were pouring in confused, strug-
Cling mass, all with the one idea Of quitting
the town and Outstripping the flood"
In the suburbs of San BenitO and San LO-
reno, before half the people could get out of
their beds, they had the water over the lower
soon forced open by the flood, which went on
its way laden with broken stools and altar Or
naments, with yestments of priests and the
neries and hermitages, the oratories and con-
vents, sweeping from their inches the carved
images Of saints. It poured into the cavalry
barracks where the soldiers could be seen
running up and down stairs with their regi-
mentals under their arms. It skirted the
great Episcopal Palace and the Colleges of St.
fulgentius and st. isidore: Many of the pub
swept on to the railway station. There it ex-
tinguished the lights and lamps then burning
in the grounds outside, and carried aYeH ~
S smal, 9Rep;air .anffets where fruit, danis
sheds and embaSkmekts, destroy nstsl eRrspS abb
poets and tearing mp rails.s 'A i4'f -
!, . Durins this terrible night said towns
our admirable civil elssd. worked with a will
to rescue women and chfldren. They had to,
work ,bysuch glimmeriDg light as their torches
more often they were up to their waists, in
water. The gallant fellows waded iptoithe,
submerged streets, set4lpg such fugitives as
%fs hcd Sere 9s e
ing ut the windows, AMI Encouraging those
who rushed about Wildly ON the house-tops,
Se o use a s sUS
ed with.ruin: Severf times during the night
was heard the crash q falling houses and
the waiting sIrieks Of Unfortunate beings, that
could not escape. and were soon smothefed iYf
the ruins or in the torreuts
formed by TIE auth rities. the board and tie
civil gonfil6s Zone auaE01ve times braved the
torrent. with the watsr TO his chest. Each
lie p Ssek on ss IN @ AZ
1t her breast. He fought y his. swsy
t asS;nss the wsteT rather wm%ins than
saw It totter. Before tr he, could 80 make
and babe were swept S sSR Elm a on the q