| Show FLOODS AND eadi bake the record of disaster by disturbance of the elements continues to grow apace news newa now comes 41 I 1 t a fright ul bati catastrophe strophe lo in siberia anu and in japar japan the telegraph made brief mention of floods 16 siberia iberia in august and of storms and another earthquake in japan on the last day of that month now some ome details are arrivi arriving arri nw which hive a faint picture of the calamitous visitations in IB siberia the plains bor bordering derin 06 the were the scene of to terrible rt ble devastation the rivers Bip Sip boon moy mo r banta cabasa and iman were all out and the plain for hundreds of ellef was turned into a iske in some places twenty six feet deep the siberian Siber lao railway was fl floder oded for from imen iman the last station on the road and in many places washed away and for some days telegraphic communication with was cut off the grain crops were being gathered and were stacked in sheaves antho in the field sod the winter stock of hay bay was being housed in stack all these were carried away as were the stocks of the farmers armer eart a well oil as their houses house and many lives were lost rescue parties were out in all direct directions lans taking the be farmers and their families to alices ol of safety in the few boats to be found in IDI the district and the governor govern orgen or gen gee era oral at vladivostok dispatched a party of soldiers boldien sol dien with two light draught steam launches and four lifeboats to saint assist in ID the work As the settlers have lost their all even their stock of foods buffs for the winter there will almost as be great distress and famine in III the region during the coming winter and further the vast piles of firewood so 80 absolutely necessary during the long terrible tei winter have been washed away by the raging waters and to the pangs of hunger buuger will be added the terrors of bf the proverbially bialiy severe siberian wi ter tar with no pro vision for keeping warm in japan some towns were destroyed and many severely damaged and there was great loss lose of life the widespread terror which prevailed after the earthquake was heightened by a typhoon which loot its aid to the work of devastation this was followed by disastrous floods official reports ay that houses have been floo loci led above the floor door and below the floor washed away totally wrecked and partially numbers of people were drowned be ades des great loss lose ot of property by the bursting of f embankments etc landslides nave have taken place in 1083 places PISCOs T these bese disasters are becoming so 00 common that interest therein to la comparatively ively dull in some quarters but in others where events of modern times are being closely watched for the trend rend of their bearing these occurrences are noted with a consciousness of the influence they will have bare upon the nations bud peoples whose destiny la Is involved in latter times |
