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Show LOSE LI VESlHFLO OD APPALLING LOSS Of- LIFE FOL LOWS HEAVY RAINS IN AHR VALLEY IN GERMANY. Cloudburst Adds to Horror In Water Choked Valley, It Being Conservatively Conserva-tively Estimated That Two Hundred Were Drowned. Cologne. Germany. It is conservatively conserva-tively estimated that 200 persons lost their lives In tho flood that swept tho valley of the River Ahr in tho Elfel region. Eighty-seven bodies had been p- ' - recovered Tuesday. Theso wero found along the river banks. 1 A report received here says that fifty lives were lost at the village of Sault when a bridge crowded with persons watching the turbulent waters wat-ers was carried away. Throughout the Ahr valley not ono J bridge is left standing. Tho floods i were caused by a heavy rain that hnd continued for several days, causing caus-ing the River Ahr to break Its banks. Sunday night there was a cloudburst and tho water choked tho valley,' ' drowning every living croaturo in i their pnth and causing Immenso monetary mon-etary damage. Two barracks In which Italian and I Croatian laborers were housed wero swept away and their occupants,, who wore In their beds, wore drowned. , The railway was washed out and sov-oral sov-oral villages were destroyed. Lightning which accompanied the rains did much damage.' Thero Is much distress among tho surviving peasants of the valley, as most ol them have lost their possessions. |