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Horrors In China

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
February
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Denver, Col., Feb. 7. - A San Francisco special to the Rocky Mountain News says: A letter from Shanghai gives the details of terrible floods and familie in Northern China. The ttovemor-Qeneral of Li Hing Chaog report- that the people of Schuan suffared terribly by a flood whicli destroyed temp] - and and city walls, in no lesa tluin ten districts. In Wen Chitan the loss of life will reach fully 1,000. iiately followingi al Pei Changaflre broke out and destroyed thirty-five houses. In three other places houses were bnrned to the nmnber of iOO. The sufferin'i amoüg the poor is aomething terrible. The roads everywhere are difíicult of passage and crowds of star ving areontheir way to Shanghai, and ho.v to deal with them will be an nn ., . ' ;i diflicult problem for those n power to solve. Corn and millet are selling at tbe fairs along the great road to Pao 'iin and San Si at exactly doubie the price of one year ago.

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