Show AlPINE flOODS T INUNDATE UPPER i V Sc Scores Scores' res' res of Lives Reported Lost in Heavy Rains I If r f rt 0 Dam D nt Breaks tf v 9 t LONDO o o sePt Sept 27 21 AP Sc a of Ives ato ate bc believed to haVo be been 1 I it a in Alpine floods which nuna nun nun- P dated ted the principality of the ea eastern tern s section cUon ot of I i ze and 1 and ld too tho upper Tr n o ln I ff a y after ft r tremendous tremendous rams rains over overt 1 t ie e we week k end Especially affected arC arc those val val- ley whose hose waters vaters Join the Rhine 1 a al Q o vo Lal Lake o Constance while the thc J u u Rhine itself Is amazingly t B w 1 and tho thor lake Is fifteen feet ove dD ove 11 he Actual total fatalities are wn anti anU cannot be reliably com computed ted until the communication lines t. b by the fl d IMPROVING I Lates I reports ei i say the situation 1 ng the down down- p urs beginning t to subside A sud- sud Q n. n drop In temperature I tho w mountain regions has checked the melting ot of the snow which largely c contributed to the floods Liechtenstein which with an anarea area of sixty eight square miles Is the principality In the world was almost overwhelmed by i. i o inundation The worst feature ture ot of the flood In that region was the of a foot c dam damo damon o on the Ll Swiss Liechtenstein border allowing the waters of the Rhine to toS toI S I s veep over the tiny principality VILLAGES INUNDATED 1 villages are under severa feet of water and ami some Of bf the inhabitants In in- I habitants caught by the rushing torrent before they could ec esca pe peto o to the mountainsides mountainside are arc belIeved to have perished The Lle government gO has appealed to Its neigh neighbors bOts bOt's for quick action Tho rho property damage there will run tun Into the tho millions and tens ot of thousands of cattle were drowned Many plaCes known the tho over as tourist resorts have shared In the tho suffering notably In the upp upper up- up per p r I Engadine region of Switzerland There has been much damage at St. St Pontresina and Innsbruck Innsbruck Inns Inns- bruck where the gas gas- and electric lighting systems are paralyzed an and d bridges washed away Tr Train ln sec I I Ivice vice on some railroads ads has stopped and on others Is Ia being diverted d around the flood region The authorities everywhere ar are e taking energetic relief m measures mobilizing troops and boatmen t to o carry help to the distressed P lations |