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Show FLOODS IN SILESIA. Crops Ruined and Heavy Loss of Life Reported. Tho highest floods known In to region for many years aro reported from Silesia. Nearly the whole town of Troppeau was undor water. The crops of tho entire district wero destroyed de-stroyed nnd trninc at several points interrupted, in-terrupted, owing to tho destruction of bridges nnd embankments. In tho Sudeten Su-deten vnlley all the villages were flooded flood-ed so rapidly that thirty of tho inhabitants inhab-itants were drowned. Fifty houses wero destroyed. Even tho town of Breslau is reported to be in danger and tho firemen havo been called out to repair tho dykes protecting the city from the overflowing river Oder. Ter-rlblo Ter-rlblo hailstorms havo devastated the country along tho lowor Rhino. The damage to tho wlno crop la Incalculable. Incalcula-ble. Several persons were killed by lightning. |