The Augsburg Gazette contains letters from Munich, Nuremberg
and Stuttgard stating that all the rivers are overflowed. Between Salzburg and Linz railway
communication is cut off. The waters of
the Iser have left their bed, and at Nuremberg the Peignitz has become a great
river, so that many of the streets and squares of the city are completely
inundated. A temporary bridge connects
the two portions of the city and the Nuremberg correspondent could not appear
on the 31st of January, because the building in which it was printed was
flooded with water. At Cornstadt the
Neckar has risen nine feet above its usual hight [sic] and at Halle boats were
plying in the market place, and crowds of people had to make their escape from
the lower floors of their houses in skiffs.
The Garlarnhe Gazette publishes a letter from Mannheim dated
the 3d of February stating that the waters of the Neckar were still rising and
that every spot was overflowed clear to the Heidelber turnpike. The Rhine, too, was ten feet higher than
usual and still rising. At Roxheim an
arched bridge had been carried away, and the great dyke ant Rheingennheim was
broken. The Neckar was filled with
wreck, among which barrels, doors and various domestic utensils were seen
floating off. At Wertheim, the Main rose
eight feet in twenty four hours and people were navigating the streets in
boats.
In France and Belgium the floods were still more
disastrous. In the latter country, the
whole valley of the Meuse is desolated, the great accumulations of snow in the
Vosges mountains in France having melted very rapidly under the influence of
the late rains and mild weather and precipitated themselves into the Meuse
river.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 3
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