Foreign

A dispatch from Szegedin Wedneaday moruingsays: After the fearf ui night of anxicty ali efforta proved useleíis. The water broke through with immense forcé at 3, carryiug away a part of the railway station, the oinbankment and rolling stock. Within three hours the town was mauy feet deep in water Terrible suffering íh commencing. Shrieks and cries frora thousands are heard. Houses are crashing by the score, and in many cases carrying their inmates with them. Thcre is no gas, the works being 15 feet in water. One boat was just going to save a large house f uil of people when a fearf ui crash carried with it the whole living freight. The scène is simply heartrending. Over 80,000 people are out of house and home. Hundreds are drowning and the water is still rising rapidly. A correspondent at Pesth, summarizing the official and private accounts from Szegedin sayB that the dead must amount to many hundreds. It is impossible to make a close estimate, as the number buried under the ruins cannot y et be ascertained. The houses built of sun-dried bricks, continue to collapse long after fhe first inrush of the flood. The work of feeding and removing sufferers is now proceeding with the greatest order. The first sensatienal stories of hundreds buried in the Rvnagogue and military hospital are without foundation. A dispatch from Szegedin, on Friday, says that the river Naros is rising rapidly, aud threatens New Szegedin. Numerous villages in the vicinity are crowded with refugecs. Anarchy and confusión reign here and in the nurrounding country because of an insufficient number of troops. Several iucendiaries have been suinmarily executed, A dispatch from Pesth, dated Friday night, says that a northeasterly storm drove the waves across the dykes protecting Czangard, which contains 16,000 inhabitants, and the town was partially inundated. The people are actively repairing the damage and inay, perhaps, escape, as the storm has ceased. Szentes, a town of 26,000 inhabitants, is engaged in a similar struggle with the water.