| Show d ditl th Thou ad do 1 chi chink great flood floods called by the overflow ing ingot of the I 1 anntee have caused ahk death of many thousands thou cod of persons in china I 1 river has risen forty feel feet and for hundreds of milt miles the country ie is a great lie like with only the lope tape oi c tree trees kod and an 0 o occasional roof showing 1 at anding ankle the towa town Is I 1 flooded soma of the bouic houses to their roofs at klu klave the matt dettro to town in flooded aul two feet of water wand nd in the ati foreign settlement att lement lowr down the river toward oha the be detraction destruction was w greater 9 rester and 4 boatmen esti onate that were drowned lo 10 that district choda teh waa was wiped agaj by doo and lo 10 drowned there and 1 nian 0 other point points have been inundated lu in awful los kossof of lit life tail grehl destruction to property it was feared embankments built bi b ch chomg 9 cheh tung oear near iti chang w would break and if it did flood drown hundred hundreds of thousand thousands |
