Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
Floods on the Danube.
Many villages are Inundated and Hum
dreds of People Have PerIshed.

Dispatches from Vienna state that the Danube
has overlooked its banks along nearly its whole
course The damage will amount to millions of
dollars and hundreds of people have persisted.
The town of Ems at the junction of the river
Ems ard the Danube, is practically submerged,
over 200 houses being covered by water. The
bodies of 20 people were recovered at Trautenau,
Bohemia. where the river Aupa overlooked its
banks and inundated large part Of the town.
The rising of the Lake Of Traun. or G,nunden
lake threatens the town of Gmunden, and many
other places are menaced by the still increasing
volume Of water in the rivers and smaller streams
The Danube at this point is over 50 metres above
its normal height, higher than ii was ever known
to be before. 1t IL difficult to understand, con
siderng the enormous breadth of the Hood, how
the water continues to rise. The gates closing
the entrance to the Donau Canal, which traverses
the city and which is really a branch of the Dan.
ube are submerged, a thing that has never oc-
Cured before. There are several feet Of water
in the lower parts OF the city.
The great hoodgates which held back Lake
Grundlsee gave way and an enormous volume Of
water rushed into the gorge below, flooding the
town OF Aussee. The break occurred at a late
hour, and most of . inhabitants OF the town
were asleep Many of tn I'm had narrow escapes
from drowning. Hastadt lake, in Upper Au-
stria, hae overlooked, carrying flood to lschl,
fashionable watering place
The town of PresSburg, on the Danube in Hun
gary, surrounded by water and the place threat.
ened with great damage. house IN Marschen-
burg whose foundations had been undermined,
collapsed and 20 persons were drowned. At
Freiheit house was carried away bodily by the
tlcod and Il persons persisted.
The streets Of Trautenau present a frghtful
spectacle Many corpses can be seen floating
about the town. cradle containing a cry ing in
FAINT discovered as it was being carried away,
and the child was rescued. Many Of the inhab-
itants of Reichenberg have lost their lives. The
splendid public grounds at Gmunden have been
entirely dt stroyed.
The destruction Of railroad entertainments and
bridges has been enormous and unprecedented.
The Western railway is the worst sufferer A
large number Of trains, including the Orient
press. are ! 10 ,ked. and II is Impossible to say
when traffic can be resumed. The loss caused by
the destruction of mills and houses and the car
rying away of cattle and crops will be immense
The total damage done Will amount to many mil
lions of forms.
A Berlin despatch says. The reports of the dis
astrUus floods in PrusSian Slesa and Saxony
ceved here have caused great CONSERVATION in
Berlin and show that the people in large sections
Of those territories are panic stricken at the APP
pAliing magt itude of the danger which threat
them. The latest adviceS report that l6S per-
sons have been drowned IN Sesa and SaXOny,
and that the damage TO property exceeds 1000.
900 marks
The coal mines at Bockau, Saxony, are flooded
with II metres OF water. The survivors of the
floods in the devastated villages Of Sllesia and
SaXony are entirely destitute Of food and shell
ter. Reports from many parts of the country
give the details Of the great damage done by the
floods The valleys Of the Elbe and oder rivers
have suffered terribly.