A City Submerged

One ■! the i niliaiilimciitsof thelrrawady river buret in Slandalay on the 34th oí August. The break was ÍWO yards in length. and so rapid was Hm flow of water that in a few moutents the whole district wasflooded Erom fpur to twenty feetdeep. Engineerts at once cut the dam í-otitli oí the city to a'low Ihu waters to sulo-ide. But the result of tiiis maneuver is aL yet unkttown. l'ifty tbousand nersons ara today homeless In the city, the honses and possessions having been submerged or destroyed. Over l,0Cfl persons were drowned by the Budden rush of waters. The flooded district had witin its terrltory uiany of the food Kupply stores, and all of these were swepi away. The result will be au npproach to fnmine among the homeles9 people. The river will not fall sufticiently to permit any attempt at reconstruction of the broken embankment until November. Tlie lirifish military operations are seriously interfered with by the overflow. The daniae done ly the flood already amonnts to t5,000,000i Many dead bodies aro beiníí constantly waalled ahore. ilanilalay is tlie capital of Burmah, and is gitnated about two miles from the left bank of tho Irrawaddy Tho seat of government was transferred thithorfrom Amarapura in 1S60. The city proper is laid out in a, square, each sido a little overa milo in length, and surrounded by a crenellated brick wajl, twenty-six feet hiyh, three f eet thick ; in ilie wall are twefve gates, three in each side. The cityissurrounded by a deep, wet moat, 100 feet broad, with its e c;i- Mxty feet from the . It is thought tliis moat and the wu!ls if they remain firin. tnay resist the inundation. Thgre is, however, an extra moral ity con tairilnga considerable number of houses. The, e honres are mostly of bamboos and bainboo matting, slightiy il from t.)n ground on jiosts. lt l.s among these that tho destrnction is the gTeatest. Tho inhabit'ints are put at ,0,000 aud the nnmber of iionses at 12,000. ÍSijk weaving i the principal industry.