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Show FLOODS IN SILESIA. Crops Ruined and Heavy Loss of Life Reported. Tho highest floods known In tflo region for many years aro roported from Silesia. Nearly the whole town of Troppoau was undor water. The crops of tho ontlro district wero destroyed de-stroyed nnd traffic at several points Interrupted, In-terrupted, owing to tho destruction of bridges nnd embankments. In tho Sudeten Su-deten vnlloy all tho villages wero flooded flood-ed so rapidly that thirty of the Inhabitants Inhab-itants wero drowned. Fifty houses wero destroyed. Even tho town of Breslau is reported to be In danger and tho firemen have been called out to repair tho dykes protecting the city from tho overflowing river Oder. Ter-rlblo Ter-rlblo hailstorms have devastated the country along tho lower Rhine. The damage to the wlno crop is Incalculable. Incalcula-ble. Soveral persons were killed by lightning. |