p. 16 | The Storms in Europe

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1872

The Storms in Europe

London, Dec. 20.—Large portions of country in Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham, are submerged by the late floods. In some sections of these counties, tops of trees and hedges only are visible. A heavy landslide has occurred near Dover, and communication with that town is interrupted. The town of Peterborough in Northampton County, is flooded, and many of the inhabitants have been compelled to take refuge in the upper stories of their dwellings.

The River Cam is overflowed in the vicinity of Cambridge, and for miles the country is like a swamp, and the streets of the city are flooded. Brookside and Eynesbury are deluged. The recent rainfall is estimated at 50,000,000 tons of water.

Paris, Dec. 20.—It is probable that some of the bridges crossing the Seine in this city will be swept away by the flood.

Naples, Dec. 20—A gale of unprecedented violence swept over Naples yesterday, and much damage was done to property and shipping.

While England has escaped the horse disease, a new malady has broken out there which is much more revolting. It is reported from various sections that it is impossible to preserve game any longer, the hares, deer, pheasants, and other game, dying by hundreds, of a strange sickness, their livers and other internal organs being filled with worms. In a country where so much use is made of game as in England, the affliction is a very serious one.