The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-10-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN SARDINIA.  TERRIBLE L 034 OF LIFE.  • calamity, which is without parallel in the annals of Santinis, has occurred there. A stem. accompanied by torrential rains, has devastated the tuit timid. I and populous plain in Sardinia. It is feared that several hundreds of lives nave been lost, while the loss of live-stick and the destruction of all kinds of agricultural property has likewise been very emit. Communication by telegraph. by road, or by rail was for a time entirely suspended, an.i is still so seriously inti:•rtupted that lull particulars of the disaster are not yet obtainable, but enough is known to shew that. the visitation was of an appaliing description. The region affected, telegraphs the Times correspondent at Cagliari. is the plain of Campedano. whish is well known as an important wine-growing centre. On 'lntraday there stern ninnerous warnings of the coming stem. The illf•abitants hurried home fron: the vineyard and pasturag ~driving their sheep ant cattle into any shelter that was available. Soddenly, toearls nightfall, the storm broke. It raged with unstilted violence all night long. According to en- ascount, subterranean rusublit,s were heard during the height of the storm. Tll, inhabitants had no moans of escape. The deluge became no gte d t:..: .•, e d ice was 5011 in as had a plight as another, and ii z d was rendered impos• slide. The river Manna I a number of °Viet streams be which the dis 7..: t is water, d overflowesi their banks and inuudated in surrounding country. When morning broke, a pitiful sin etacle presented itself. Six is, I,:rwe villages, with a total pepula• tiou of sonic 6.000 souls, had been first devastatee by the cyclone and then submerged by the flood An area of about 15 square kilonnitres lay undo, water, the vildiges overtaken by this calamity MU' united in their desolation under ore vast lake being Dechno. Assemini, Elmo, Samatzai, Sal Spend.% and Usssali How many of the people con toyed to en i a e nesimu, um by climbing to the roof: of their barns and dweilings, or by ine king refu.iz. upon the neatest piece of rising ground, is aril unknown, but it is certain that a very large proper that have pet ished, sin •i• in one place alone—Sat Sperate—close u on 100 bodies have already ben recovered. The great majority of the houses. twins built of clay or of mud I Hoke dried in the sun, fell an easy Ivey to the waters. The more soli. dwellings, built of stone and properly tired bricks, where not 4 'slit. l eutou rged, :itfoided shelter ti many who were more dead tan alive from exposort when rescued after the waters began to subside Even those stew and brick buildings whict remained siatullng have in nearly every case beer seriously damaged. There are great cracks in th. walls; doors adid winddws have been torn off; an, all the furniture has been either washed away utterly ruined. The troops, who were called ou to aid ie tie work of re .cue, as well as the Into Rend:inn-Ide rendered in ed valuable services an, were the means of sayine many lives. The senr, for the dead is hcieg cow limed under great dial cult ice. aed the total death-mil will not be tamed until the water under which the district le. is carried off. The Railway ws also swept bs the storm and greatly damaged.  Fifty-three bodes have been recovered front cite wrecked P. and 0. haer Bakhara.  A serious earth piake has occurred near Kuika, in Trans-Caucasia,deAroying Ave villages. Twenty seven persons are known to have been killed. A telegram has bem received at Ilrw:0l. froni the Congo &Ate announcing that Sub-Lieutenant Lieguis was murdered by natives on August 15th. opposite the French village of Timasu. on Onelle.  Laura :"N .w. ,In you appose this novelist ine.tris by saying that his heroine seemed to be • treading on air' ?" Flora: " Maybe she wore mew inatic soles."  _ Reset down in the old armchair, She sat down in his tap: But what of that ? She was but The family's Maltose cat. In flArlin recently a workman was boring a b.n.• in a wooden wall, when he received a stro.,z; shock, and, ignorant of the cause, he left the gimlet in the hole and Bed. At the same time ah. electric clock opposite the house suddenly stopp •.i The workman had pierced the thin wooden wall and the lead covering of the electric cable which regulated the clock, and was thus painfully reminded of the hidden power of electricity.