Show MA MANY TOWNS IN One Death Beath Rep Reported rt d Torrential l Rains Over Vast Area Swell Rivers ROME ROUE May 17 AP Vast AP-Vast Vast sect sec- sec t tons ons of ot northern Italy are flooded n in consequence of ot torrential rains rain which fell tell last night in the wake of ot a period of ot unusually heavy downpours Part of ot the city of ot forty miles west of ot Venice and scores of ot towns are under water many houses being carried away as the ge Adige I and other othe rivers ers overflowed their banks bank ONE DEATH Only one death had been reported report report- ed this forenoon that of ot a fascist who was drown trying to t protect the electrical plant at Bergamo Telephone and telegraph communIcations communications with many places have been cut off ott notably between Wilinore Wll- Wll Inore and Bergamo At Brescia the electrical service has been stopped due to the flooding of of the power houses The rivers were ere already high last night right when two storms r cl cloudbursts swept wept the country cO The greatest neatest damage waa done In the tho north although Rome was visited b by ba a heavy y rainfall and Palermo icily leny reports a storm attaining cyclonic proportions and causing enormous damage ROSE QUICKLY Vicenza dispatches say the Po Porose Porose Porose rose rose within twenty four hours 4 21 to 6 meters At Montagnana the Frassine river swept the countryside coun- coun and at Piazzola the Brenta river rI flooded the and Tremignon Tremignon Tre- Tre mignon mignon re regions Ions Two militiamen were ere carried away but wera were res- res cued The Adige river Is nearly three nearly three met meters rs above the high water mark he rhe houses are flooded to to the second second sec- sec Fond ond floor at Campagnola Basso and Brescia advices say that the rivers rivers riv- riv ers and Gleno overflowed at Darto Darfo and that the Inhabitants are fleeing |