Death Toll Reaches 1,941
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands,
Feb. 6 US) The death toll from
last week-end's floods rose today
to 1,941. The Netherlands counted
1,372 dead, Britain 546 and Bel
gium 23.
In the reconstruction work,
United States Army engineers are
using a novel emergency technique
to repair some of the worst dike
breaches in Brabant Province. The
1,800 men of the Thirty-ninth En
gineer Construction Group, sent
into Dettlingen, Germany, are
using the Bailey bridges as the
base for fixing the longer gaps
torn by the storm.
These temporary, prefabricated
sectional spans are thrown across
and weighted with stones and sand.
Then the whole bridge, with'its
load of filling, is dropped into the
gap by setting off explosive
charges at the ends.
