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Show ROMAN FLOODS ARE SL0WLYRECB1NG Rainfall Decreases and Tiber Is Lower; Rescue Work Continues. EOME, Feb. 16. VTith a decrease in the rainfall the flood conditions resulting result-ing from the Tiber overrloTving its hanks were somewhat better today than vesterdav, although the river is tiil booming 'along out of its course and inundating various sections of the i-itv and country. l"hc rescue work is still proceeding bv means of boats, in which persons in inundated houses are beinjz removed, and food is being taken to those whose situation is not regarded as alarming. The morgue boat, while transporting bodies to a point from which they could . be conveyed to the. cemetery, capsized todav and the caskets containing contain-ing the bodies rioated away. AH the men on the boat escaped. Under Ihe direction of military en-' giueers a large number of workmen are engaged in freeing the embankment below the castle Saint Angelo from the collapse. From the heights around Komo the country about as far as ihe sea looks like a MHvet-fdon of lakes, in the. midst of which trees are growing. Keports received today "from the village vil-lage of FiumieiuOj fifteen miles southwest south-west of Home, said that about one thousand of its inhabitants were in distress. The entire village is isolated -by the. flood. Three boats sent there with supplies have not yet arrived and their fate is not known. The minister of the navy has ordered torpedo boats to Fiumieino, but is is doubtful, owing to the heavy rush of the waters, whether they will be able to enter the canal leading to the village. At the mouth of the Tiber several houses have been rudered uninhabitable by the flood. Their occupants took refuge on board the old ship Stella Polare. which the Duko of the Abruii used in his polar expedition. |