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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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In France's Lower Rhine department, a four-month mouse plague has devastated crops in Saverne and Strasbourg arrondissements, with over 1.5 million mice killed. A hail storm on the 23rd further destroyed remaining crops around Strasbourg, causing 500,000 francs in losses.
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Destructiveness of Mice.--The Journal des Debates says, "The department of the Lower Rhine has been for the last four months afflicted with a scourge which has thrown the inhabitants into the utmost consternation, and exposed them to a situation truly deplorable. The sufferings of this district have arisen from the incredible ravages of mice! The arrondissements of Saverne and Strasburgh have been most exposed to their depredations. Those destructive animals have multiplied there to such a degree that in the district of Saverne, 1,570,000 have been taken in a fortnight, and nearly as many have perished in their holes. The crops have been nearly destroyed in many communes; and the potatoes, the last resource of cultivators, are now attacked and threatened with destruction. What the mice have spared has been carried away by hail storms. On the 23d a dreadful storm burst over the town and environs of Strasburgh, especially over the districts of Marienheim and Dappheim, where the crops were almost entirely destroyed and the loss is estimated at 500,000 francs." - London paper.
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Lower Rhine, France
Event Date
Last Four Months; On The 23d
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1,570,000 mice taken in saverne; nearly as many perished; crops nearly destroyed; hail storm loss estimated at 500,000 francs
Event Details
The department of the Lower Rhine afflicted by mouse ravages for four months, causing consternation; Saverne and Strasburgh arrondissements most affected; mice multiplied greatly, crops and potatoes destroyed; additional hail storms destroyed spared crops; on the 23d, storm over Strasburgh and environs, especially Marienheim and Dappheim, destroyed crops.