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Show THE FLOODS IN FRANCE. Many Buildings are Falling and Great Eoss of Lite the Kesult. Pari?, Oct. 2o. The climax of the gale, which has been raging for three days, was reached yesterday "when the wind blew with terrible violence over the Gulf of Lyons and the Island of Corsica. An immense number of vessels have taken refuse at Marseilles, many of them in a damaged condition. Towns in the valley of the A tide have been greatly damaged by the floods in that stream. The troops were called out to assist in the saving of property and two of them were drowned while at work. There are grave fears of a disaster alons the river valleys in France, Spain and Italy, which are greatly flooded. At Lime the floods undermined several buildings, which subsequently collapsed. col-lapsed. Twenty inmates were killed and nine other per.-ons are still buried in the debris. The railways have been washed out, and much other damage done. |