Show terrible floods ud and unit great loss lou of r ufa LIA ii fit spain sept 16 the loea lose at con on gra a b dy by the he floods flood sia is estimated at tv two and a half million the misery existing ia is intense the inhabitants are e compelled to sleep in the open air ir and the food supply ia in of the moat most meagre description sixteen robbers have been caught rifling the clothing of corpses so far bodies have been een recovered and the search still continues the relief fond fund baa bag reached are collect ita eg money for or the suffering in the streets of madrid the town of Tem peque has been converted info into an island by the flood and communication with it I 1 ia a almost tin possible os sible T the b e storm wrought immense dam da iz aee size in Mar earn and i d malaga gaea Ther the railway allway works at honda ronda are greatly damaged three persons were M ere damaged and many cattle perched I 1 A gen d arme at consuegra who was an eye witness ol 01 the disaster saya bays the storm was accompanied by t terrific rifle thunder end and lightning lie and a companion on an order of the mayor ran to the river to assist be the unfortunates whose honses houses wore were being flooded with much difficulty dI thirty persona persons were the mayor arrived antho on the scene and s appealed r aled to all possessing carts to a assist e elp at in n transporting trane the unfortunates to the upper put part of the lowro town bat but the people were eo so terror stricken that they could hardly move ti to thai thet assistance of their drowning comrades those these in danger seemed incapable inca pAlle a of realizing that danger 11 oared col lapsed one after another and were swallowed in the seething tur rent daybreak saw hundreds of men me a and beasts straggling struggling in the water whirling along so rapid rapidly y to destruction that they could not be paved and were BOOB soon lost loot to eight it was a a sight ight never to be forgotten |