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Show MM LIS LOST 1 C1ESE FLOOD PBKIN Sept 10 Loss of 1 f e and great destnict on of property are at tend ng the flooa spieadmg over the Shantung penusula A correspondent at Welhs en telegraphs as follows The "Weihsien river ordinarily a small Btream flow ng placidly f iteen feet below the level of the town is now a ilood cans ng eno mous damage It poured through the c ty gates, reach ing its crest apparently on Tuesday night On that n ght the mer can and Br t sh teachers at the 'tt e hs en mis sionary college were aroused by the .rash of fall nj, walls and heartrending cr es of des r ng Ch nese Leaving the r homes the teachers plunged into the waters an 1 resc ed many from drown ng The Amer can phys cians by the use of canoes n h ch they skill fully managed n the dangerous cur tients at the hesp tals The a thot I es closed t e c ty gates m an attempt to stay the waters and forty n arket n en caught outside the walls were swept away to the r deaths Many persons were drowned and the homeless and destitute number thousands in "We hs en alone We h e en s experience is typ cal of that of scores and perhaps hundreds of other towns and villages n bhantun,, The wr ter on Sundaj . after drift mg all n ght m a sampan entered the village of Matou and found it the cen ter of a r ver ten miles wide Bed ( oss eno neers completed a stir vey of the Hwai river and a e now n Pek n d scuhs ng the poss b 1 ty of a re lan at on plan with the government |