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Show SPANISH EL09B SITUATION SERIOUS MADRID. Feb. S Tho flood situation situa-tion tonight is rapidly becoming worse and the minister of works left for Seville, where tho situation is critical. The people of Seville are frantically throwing barricades In an almost hopeless attempt to stem tho torrent. been undermined, causing its collapse The occupants wero rescued with difficulty dif-ficulty and one of the rescuers was drowned Conditions are so aJarmlny In that city that the king and premier pre-mier have decided to proceed there. Tonight the olectrlc light station was flooded, plunging tho city into darkness. Fifteen thousand "workmen "work-men temporarily are thrown out of employment The tributaries of the Guadalquivir river arc over their banka, carrvlng ovorythlng before iu , A boat on Its way to La Algaba, thrdo miles from Seville, was cap. idzed today, throe persona being drowned. There Is no news of two trains on tho Cadiz lino and It 16 fcarod they have been caught In the flood. At Madrid the Mauazuros river has overflowed. over-flowed. Inundating the houoos along its banks eo |