Show CHINESE COMMERCE CENTER DESTROYED PEKING July 15 1 UPI Q W Inco of ChihIl tho tha ho largest com corn commercial mercial center north ot of o Poking Peking has been destroyed lit In part by IL a flood along the time ho ac- ac according according ac cording to word r received c hero here to- to tonIght tonight to nIght Tho The damage to the tho city Is unofficIally estimated at 1000 lOCO Hundreds of ot houses homes collapsed un- un under un under der the pressure or the Hood flood w-i-ter w 1 advice stated Ono no Portion ot of the tho city to tho the south of the regular river bed I Is under ruder the feet teet of ot water The Th railway along the river aio ato submerged and it Jt I is I believed that debris Ins hs been swept over oser thOrn them to a probe probable able depth of ot several toot fort Part of the budge acro across the tho 1 user h hp p v 88 a S Sept ept away Buildings still till standing In the flood area It was added house homo IL a floor covering of from three thre to tour four feet tet ot of o sand and water ter Kalean Kalgan is I a 11 city of about 72 73 and Just jut inside InIde the great croat all walls It I Is the point or departure for tor two caravan routes route a ni ross the Mongolian steppes Comparatively few tew foreigners are ar located there n- n |