THE FLOODS IN GERMANY.
RIVERS STILL RISING. MANY LIVES LOST. United Press Association, Copyright BERLIN, Feb. 7. The rivers Rhine, Elbe, Main, Danube, and Odor arc rising steadily. Many lives have already been lost. • The situation at Dresden is most precarious. The ice on the Elbe lias broken into huge floes 30 centimetres thick. Enormous crowds from the countryside are assembling an tlie city to watch the ice crashing into the bridges. It lias already destroyed the scaffolding of the nearly-completed Augustus bridge.
ICE FLOES MELTING
SOME RIVERS ABATING
(Received Feb. 8, 11.30 p.m.)
BERLIN, Feb. 8
The ice floes of Dresden are melting and the danger is past. Some of the western streams are .abating.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2421, 9 February 1909, Page 5
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116THE FLOODS IN GERMANY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2421, 9 February 1909, Page 5
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