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Show Over a Score Drowned. About a score of lives have been lost in Austria as the result of floods caused by the breaking up of the ice in the rivers. At Szolnok floating ice capsized a boat and eight persons were drowned. A washout wrecked a train at Paussa, with the result that two persons were killed and seven injured. in-jured. Nine boys, while skating at Jarkasi, were drowned through the ice breaking. The rise in the Danube has beed rapid. At Ybdes the river rose five feet in one day. The rivers in south Bohemia have overflowed. |