Thousands of Flood Refugees Housed in All Sorts of Places ca Harbin, Aug. 16..
The floods here have fallen only bout one inch and it will be ime possible to pump out the water the suburb of Pristan til] the river falls, Thousands of refugees have been housed in all sorts of places, such 3 waggons, schools, churches and temporary huts. The railway company is erecting barracks for 10,- 100 more, Tt is estimated that so far 25,000 Chinese have been found temporary shelters, the flooded premises may be inhabitable during the winter.
Great efforts are being made to in "Harbin, ay runs, but its fate it still critical.
ing to reports this evening from refugees, two large bridges jand 30 smaller ones have been washed out on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Twenty bridges are said to have been destroyed to the west of Macerhshanchan and five to the Thousends of people, who refuse to leave their homes at Nakaloftka and Chengho, are clinging to their voets or living in their attics. Many fof them have livestock with them Bat! "they "are without "food for themselves or their animals." Many the Snhablants of Pratan sao their homes, living in the upper. storeys.
in Fuchiation, another Harbin suburb, no rapid fall of the floods expected and it is possible that
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