Show LOSE LIVES IN FLOOD APPALLING LOSS OP OF LIFE FOL LOWS HEAVY RAINS IN AHR VALLEY IN GERMANY cloudburst cloudburst adds to fo horror in water P choked valley it being conserva h lively estimated that two hundred were drowned cologne germany it Is conserva lively estimated that persons lost their lives in the lie flood that swept tho the i valley of the river alir ahr in the eifel j region eighty seven bodies had been recovered tuesday these were found along the river banks A report received hero says that fifty lives were lost at the village of sault when a arld bridge c crowded with persons watching the turbulent waters vaters was as carried away throughout the alir ahr valley not one bridge is left standing the floods were caused by a heavy rain that had continued for several days causing 4 in the river ahr to break its ita banks sunday night there was a cloudburst W and the water choked the valley drowning every living creature in i their path and causing immense monetary damage two barracks in which italian and croatian laborers were housed were swept away and their occupants who wha were in their beds were drowned T the railway was washed out and sev eral villages vere were destroyed lightning which accompanied the rains did much damage there la is much distress among the surviving peasants of the valley as most ol of them have lost their possessions |