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Show THE SZl.DKGIN FLOOD. tie J tin;; Down in JFttcib about itio Affair. A Tale ot SuUerioj- ttutl Hoe Festb, 13, evening. The danger in Szeged in ia incrta-iu. Rescuing boats continually etnke ruins bo tt ai in many cetes (be rescue ut aurleren-is aurleren-is impossible. One boat capsized by which Beven women were drowned. A violent storn is raging. Tee tleod is continually ritirg, and is new two (eet above the level of the TbeiM. The unsubmerged area bas been reduced re-duced to GOO equare metres which continually decreases. At the first irruption of water thirty five soldiers were drowned. Tbe state railway carried gratuitously 10,000 fugitives yesterday. Summarizing official and private accouuts from Szegedin, the dead must amount to many hundreds. It is impossible to make a close estimate, as the number buried under ruins cannot yet be ascertained. Tbe houses built of sundried bricks, continued to collapse long after the firbt inrush of tuo flood. The work of feeding feed-ing and removing the Bufjerers is now proceeding with great ardor, benaa tional stories ol Hundreds buried in the synagogue and military hospital are witho'H foundation. Peeth, 14. A large portion of tho suburbs of Szegedin being below the ordinary level ol the river Theiss, the water which rushed in from the higher ground behind the town being several teet above the present level of the river, bore Oown on it! way the high road embankment, rushing in cascades into tbe lower ground, and inundating it with tearful rapidity; instead ot five or six hours which it was calculated tbe flocd would take to spread through tbe town, scarcely an hour and a halt had passed before Szegedin lay submerged up lo its present level. However bume hope is entertained that on account ac-count of the alarm which for a day before the occurrence of the calamity roused tbe population to a eeuBe ol their daoger, and gave them an opportunity op-portunity to fly. for refuge, tbe loss of lite has not been very great; but the victims must, at any rate, be numbered num-bered by many hundreds, if not by thouaandp; nor ia the havoc yet complete. com-plete. Besides those swept away during that terrible night, all through Wednesday dull, fatal Bounds were heard in all directions, indicating indi-cating successive falls ot buildings. The special government commis Biontr Bays the poorer classes were extremely unwilling to abandon their housea. In many cases force had Lo be used to pluck people from houses that were in a dangerous condition. All communities in tbe neighborhood vie with each other in relieving the distreea. They are sending provisions by land and water and opening their bouses to euccor the refugees. Comparatively Com-paratively few, however, aeem to avail themselves of the latter ofler. The working classes, especially, preler abiding by the nearest safe spot iu the town or close to it. Tbua thousands are encamped on the high embankment embank-ment running along tbe river, which elands firm, to that the opening open-ing of this embankment to let the water from above and behind tbo town run into the river in front, could only ba imperfectly carried on. Emperor Em-peror Francis Joseph will forego his visit to Pesth, to receive congratulation congratula-tion on the occasion of bis silver wedding. wed-ding. He deeires that the money intended for the festivities Bhall bo distributed among theeuflerera by the flood. The emperor arid empress also give 40.000 fljrius from their private party. Vicuna, 13 Six steamers and twenty tups have left Pesth (or Szegedin. Szege-din. S:x ihnustnd persons are still surrounded by wntcr. tZfgtdin, 13. Government authui-ities authui-ities report 300 pertotis have been drowued. At noon on Thursday there were etill people on the roofs of bouses mid in trees. Some persons died from oxpoeuro to the cold. A number of incendiariea have been arrested. ar-rested. The towns of Crongrad, at the confluence of the rivers T'heifS and Kuros, thirty-two milea north of Szegedin, and Szentoa, two miles ue.-uer cizegedm, aro aluo threatened. |