The age-herald., 1897-08-08
SWEPT BY FLOODS WAS FAIR GERMANY Hundreds of People Caught By the Tor
 rents and Drowned. PROMPT RElEF EXTENDED Libsrality Of sle Crowned Heads and
 Shi'i Cities WILL FSsvENr MUCH HARDSHIP Gen. Miles Arrives at the German Capital and Is Warmly Welcomed White VIII Not
 Get Folio-Fatal Turf Accidents.
PROMPT RESlEF EXTENDED
WILL Fs.vENT MUCH HARDSHIP

HCCue0ISt Berlin, Aug. 7.-(Special Cable Latter)
 The cloud bursts and inundations which
 have devastated the eastern parts of | Germany were the worst which have oc-
 curred since 1870. According to the local
 statistics 1O5 persons were killed in
 Silesia alone and i'm Saxony the number
 of killed will not fall short of 1SO. The | financial losses foot up over 15O 100000
 marks. At Pilnits, the country residence
 of the queen of saxony, the river Elba
 rose so fast that it flooded the lower
 floor of the royal castle, forcing the king and queen to furriedly flee from the pla-e
 and seek refuge at Dresden. Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chan cellor, who was then on his way from his estate at Aussig to Berlin, had to leave the train at Aussig and was conveyed ten mis.s in Sedan chair to another railway
 station.
 Through landslide from the highest
 summit of the Silesian mountains the
 Hotel schomekf was carried down ard buried with all its occupants. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has granted so.0oO florifs from h.s private purse for the relief of the sufferers, and
 the queen of Saxony has granted 10000 marks and the regent of Bavaria 15,0oo marks for the same purpose.
 Emperor William, of Germany, has not yet made donation to the people who | have suffered from the floods, etc., in the
 eastern parts of the country, although ha
 has given 5000 marks to the flood suffer- CTS in Alsace.
 The newspapers are ealing for special that these bodis S may make extraordinary that these bodies may mak extraordinary
 grants of money for the relief of the suf-
 fering families, but as the suggestion was first made by the Vorawerts and other so- cialist newspapers it is being discouraged
 by the government
 The municipality of Berlin has granted
 ZOO 900 marks for the relief of the thous- | ands of homeless and pennilsss and the | city of Dresden has voted 3OO,0O0 marks for the same good work. The German newspapers continue to | discuss the new United StatA tariff and | to call for reprsals, but the correspond- l ent of the Associated Press learns from the foreign office that the government has no intention, of beginning a tariff
 war A high official of the foreign office said to the correspondent Say there will be no tariff war; Ger
 many Is too weak to carry it out and the
 larger part of American imports of food
 
 materials are indispensable to our indus try. The formation of large continent 1 al tariff union with It's ram pointed at the United States would miscaiwy, be- cause of England's opposition. As a ma tier of fact our hands are tied and
 even Baron von Thielmann, present Ger
 man ambassador to the Untea States.
 who will be named as the successor of Count Poswadowski- -Weimer, as imperial secretary of state of the treasury. who through his advice and intimate knowl- edge of American financial affairs would i be of great use to us during the coming crisis, cannot change the fact in the
 case"
 | Palapable effects of the new tariff are
 already noticeable. The manufacturers
 of Solingen are complaining of lack of l orders and many of the factories have
 been compelled to reduce the number of
 hands employed. In the Cuban and | Chemnitz districts there is already much
 industrial distress Similar complaints
 are made elsewhere.
 1 The Florists asso4,is tion has sent me-
 morial to the imperial chancellor, pro- l testing against the tariff as seriously in- | turing the export trade of Seeds and
 pIans during the past few weeks. | Before staring for Russia Emperor i william received number of threatcn- ] ing letters from nihilists and Pan-Sfav- fconfinucd on Seventh Page) r