Three days have passed since then, with rain accumulating in alarming volume in the low-lying sections of Peking and the southern environs of the city. At Nanyuan, which is growing into a residential district for foreigners, the race course is entirely under water, and all communication with Peking interrupted owing to the washing: away of a considerable part of the road. In Peking itself, hundreds of Chinese hooses in the Chinese city have collapsed, while inches and sometimes feet of water have gathered in the hutungs and in the courtyards of houses on the highest levels of Peking.
Tt is said that the rainfall for Peking is but in the eight days ending ye terday we have had no less than 15 inches; and with the torrential rains last night and this morning, the record for the last nine days should approximate what one would expect for a whole year.
Tientsin Now Saved.
Tientsin has been worse off thea Peking, and throughout yesterday foreigners in. the capital were anxiously awaiting news from that city. Apparently, the threat Wholesale floods has been averted. he trouble in Tientsin has ulway's jen that it has to channel too much water to the sea, and enginers and others are again raising Creditable Emergency Measures at Kalgan.
Peking, July 18.
A member of the staff of the British n, who was at Kalgan when the flood occurred, speaks in high terms of the measures taken by the Chinese there to cope with the emergency. suddenly after daylight soldiers and_ polis armed with rifles and bayonets we posted at intervals throughout the stricken area, with orders to prevent looting by shooting if heceasary, People whose homes had been destroyed and who were' unable to find a shelter and food elsewhere were quickly rounded up and placed in enclosures near the railway station, men on one side of the line and women and children on the other. These refugees passed through the railway gates in entering the enclosures and each person received two loaves of bread on entering, The Tutung and the Magistrate personally supervise ed the work of reconstruction, which was carried out quickly and efficiently.
Tt was estimated that a thousand people were drowned. Three hundred bodies were recovered lower down the river where dams formed barricades against the flood. A Chinese hotel and a Russian' boarding house were swept clean ®/away and the occupants drowned. ithe Peking-Tientsin area alone there are something like 100,000 square miles under water.
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