Houses Rendered Uninhabitable The following news was received Shanghai on July Ichang, July 21.
As already notified, Ichang has been visited by the highest recorded water mark in a quarter of a century. Since the last great flood, a district called the South Lake has been brought into the market for building purposes. A dyke was built, but not high enough to meet such a flood as came this year. When the river began to rise this month the embankment was anxiously watched, but it gave way on Saturday morning, with the result that a large district was completely flooded, and nearly all these fine houses were under water, some of them to the height of the first storey. The water started to fall on the 18th instant and although much of it soon ran off this district, much more will lie there for months to come, and houses will have-been rendered uninhabitable.
Steamers which arrived from Hankow reported that the country had been ver¥ badly flooded between
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