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flow Of the Danube and persisted. ID
Slesia 5000 inhabitants, and in Po-

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land 1000 lives lost.
Vistula overlooked. Many
villages submerged and great loss Of
life. Strabane, Eeland-Melting OF
snow occasioned destructive foods.
1S19-England-Five thousand acres deluged
In the Fem counties.
9.-Dantzic-Vistula broke its bikes.
Many lives lost. Four months later
the Spey and Findhorn rose 50 feet
above ordinary level Many lives
were lost. Called ''the Moray floods
$780, Vienna-Dwellings containing $1,000
people submerged.
1S33-Canton. China-Incessant rains pro
duced foods; 10000 houses swept
away; 1000 lives lost Same cause
produced worse results elsewhere in
China.
1s40.-Lyons, Marseilles and Nismes-The
Soane rose to greater height than in
23S years Lyons inundated and from
other cities many houses carried away.
1S4L-Brentford-Pr destroyed and
several lives lost.
JS46.-France, center, west and southwest
Many bridges broken away. The Lore
rose 90 feet in one night.
1s49-New Orleans, 600 houses flooded by
the Mississippi.
1852. -Inundations of the valleys of the Sew
ern, the Rhone and the Rhine. Ham
burg flooded by the Elbe. Holmfrth-
Catastrophe from floods.
1s56-France, southern part-Immense DAM
age from food.
1s61.-Holland-40,0 900 acres submerged
1S62-St Germain's-Great inundation from
bursting of the outfau sluice. An
other marshland sluice burst later.
1S64-Bradfield reservoir burst; $50 liyes
lost
1S66-North Of England-Great food; some
people drowned. Also in France.
1S69-Cork, Dublin and other places inun-
dated; much suffering.
1S70.-Rome, Italy, inundated with loss of
life.
S72.-Italy-Mantua, Ferrera and other
places inundated. Many people left
homeless.
1S74-England-High tides. Banks of the
Thames swept and number Of lives
lost. Pennsylvania-Mi River valley
flooded by bursting of reservoir, IA
lives lost Eureka, Nev.-Waterspout
and protracted rain; some 20 people
persisted. Pittsburg and Allegheny
Heavy rains, 300 people drowned
1S75.-Toulouse, France - River Garonne
swollen; 1000 lives lost. In England
and Wales - Heavy rains brought
foods and great loss of life. In India,
Ahmedabad inundated; 10000 people
left homeless.
lS76.-Holland and France-Severe inunda-
tons, also in England.
~ No. I;1-l
water OVERLOOKED piers, doing great
damage. Banks Of the Thames over
flowed and surrounding country dam
aged.
-London-Sufered from severe inunda-
TONS Mexico-Leon, a city of Mexi-
CO, containing 100, 900 people, half sub
merged; 1000 buildings ruined; several
thousand people lost. Flood on the
Mississippi river: 800 houses submerged
at St Paul and great damage on the
river below.
1S7s.-Hungary-Town Of Szegedin nearly
all swept away by the destruction Of
dams in the river Thesis from storms
of rain and wind; more than 5000
houses demolished; nearly 100 lives lost
Five months later, in Spain, 1000
houses destroyed and 600 lives lost by
food. Hungary again visited by inun-
dations in December.
1S79.-The rivers Pc and Mincio overfowed
and did much damage in north Of
Italy Spain-In Murcia and in the
the provinces Of Andalusia, Alicante,
Almeria and Malaga 1000 houses swept
eway by floods; 1000 lives lost
ISSO.-England-Mid counties suffered
by flood
1882. Mississippi and Ohio valleys flooded
and many lives lost, with great dam
age.
1Ss4-Great floods on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi rivers. Much loss of property
and some loss of life. Portsmouth, O.
A town 1900 people-an under
water.
1SS7.-Grcat Yellow river foods in China.
About five hundred thousand persisted
and 20, 900 600 were made homeless.
1SSS.-Mississippi river-Great rise and large
tracts flooded, with much loss Of life.