Show CHINESE CITIES HIT 01 FLOODS devastation WROUGHT HUN OF VILLAGES IN PATH OF TERRIFIC RAINS property loss will reach millions of dollars pekin Is isolated save for single line of railroad pekin thousands of lives are reported lost and hundreds of villages destroyed in the honan hunan an hui and provinces of china devastated by floods and landslides brought on by prolonged rains tremendous Themen dous financial losses have been incurred throughout the western part of the country pekin itself is practically isolated except for the tien tsin railway line which is threatened with inundation the entire business district of ala gan the westernmost rail head ol of china was destroyed and the railroad at this point buried under landslides and debris some lives have been lost there and the property loss runs into millions of dollars all foreigners are reported lafe pekin is threatened by breaking dykes along the mountain river to the eastward where soldiers are toiling day and night at constant repairs engineers propose drastic measures to save the city suggesting cutting some of the dykes and permitting the water to overflow into the low rice lands between ti tien en tsin and pekin the railroad lines between pekin and bankow and between pekin and sui yan are both without traffic the floods were worst vorst in the four provinces honan hunan andul and kiang each of which reported the wiping out of hundreds of villages and terrific loss of life |