Disaster overtook the city of Siahsion, twenty miles north of Yuncheng, about a month ago, when heavy rains came down from the hills with such force as to undermine and carry away a large part of the city wall. fand this was followed by a second inundation which destroyed halt the houses in the city, drowning a number of people and rendering hundreds homeless. A similar disaster is said to have the city 300 occurred to years ago.
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