Show fatherland rATHE BLAHD FLOODED tile aldno and oilier other hirers with a rubb bv ua V U to the lle rahl 11 viessa jan 81 by new i years Years the danube had overflowed its right bank flooding the railway station and driving dm ing officials ioto into the upper and offices the danube navigation co had boats and sailors ready awl detachments on oil duty la in the prater water flooded tho the engine which supplied the electric light at karl theater and the audience had to leave in ili some towns deer took among the houses and quantities of bame me partridges tol drifted down hie the river there la is scarcely any abatement aa as yet the water standing five hundred centimeters higher than its normal level in nr vienna ienna WS in in besth and M i in b L linz and besth suffered most among the larger ton tons seventy five thousand acres of cultivated land lying belne entirely submerged country folks caved saved their I herds erds with difficulty but left their I houses lous to the mercy of tho the waters the damage to property is serious everywhere losa loss of life not as largo large aa as largo large as might ba be expected owing owin t to the tile precautions I ons taken in good t time ime jan in germany ea es poci socially ally the rhino provinces the inundations are ae more destructive than for many years tho the city of may anco lain r a critical position tiro tire plain between mannheim and worms la Is it great lake 10 feet deep rivo five villages aro are destroyed and houses lave have fallen in reed distri district ct near worms 12 villages arc are nearly uearl y de 11 stroked troyed GOO houses collapsed and people are completely destitute it at mannheim nothing is eibl blo ble broin the observatory but a sea of water witha with a few trees and roofed tho the burgomasters burg of worms and mannheim left in boatri boats a number of ware ls t at II eidelberg both lines of railway are destroyed tho water has risen to the lie ceiling in tho tile i lower part of town everywhere churches and public buildings are opened to shelter the sufferers the authorities aro are supplying food from worms to badenheim badesheim Baden heim and lamport lampert heim at Lerp strasse the athine burst through iho me dams and swept away houses and herds berds afaf A all I the streets of cologne adjacent to the wharves are under water the suburbs form an in extensive e lake five hundred people are homeless ho meles from the warehouses goods goo are being moved awa away The police and firo brigade ri gade are trestle works to fa fau liale ciliate the escape of residents while boats laden with household id effects assist in the work of conveying corn cin in merchants to their t brough air offices into which they creep t through the tile windows below cologne the little towns of mu mulheim weiden welden and Wor ringen are entirely underwater under water in friesen liyim houses hao have fallen and the furniture is lloa about the inhabitants in many cases are prisoner in their half submerged dwellings and threatened with famine collections will shortly by started throughout bout tho the umpire empire iu in aid bf the sufferers antho in tho flooded districts the Pruss itin government art eminent has alread already granted for their relief am and government go eminent of hesse has given the same sama arno amount subscriptions from prussia rea reached elied lareo large sums are arri arriving vinz from front england and anti Am america irlea glie Frankfort gazette acknowledging inythe the receipt of marks re ceilea in frankfort from om N nw new Y york ork for the benefit of the rhineland Khin cland sufferers bytho ir the flood says aas these gifts L fresh resh and hippy proof that the tile germans who R ho found new homes in in america are not lost to tho the old od fatherland L ut are ever ev er warm warin a and d ac five and ind sympathizer in girin Germ germanas germanys anys anys fortunes and her mishap mi shape a |