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Show SPANISH VILLAGE WASHED AWAY B'l A CLOUDBURST Unprecedented Storms In Southern Europe Causing Death and Desolation Deso-lation Cliff Threatens to Topple Top-ple Over on Town. Paris. Southern Kurope Is In tho grasp of a tremendous storm, accompanied accom-panied by torrential rains. This, com lng on tho heels ot unprecedented rainfalls nnd floods of the past thrco weeks, Is causing very great distress. Tho storm area extends from Morocco northward, over Portugal, Spain and southern France. Warships oft tho African coast and tho Spanish peninsula penin-sula have, sought shelter. Tho village of Olot, near Barcelona, Spnln, was literally washed away by a cloudbur8t,and tho river Llobregat, Just south ox Barcelona, Is described as being a raging torrent, constantly claiming new victims. The city of St. Sebastian, In tho north of Spain, has been ravnged by a hurricane. Tho lxjccntly flooded rivers In tho south of Franco nro again rising. In tho department of Snvole, a great overhanging cliff of 800 cubic meters, Is reported to bo moving nnd In Imminent Immi-nent dnngor of toppling over and crushing tho vlllago of Tormcry, 1,000 feet below, A dispatch from Ilrcst says several smacks have capsized and their crows have been drowned. |