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QUEBEC FLOOD SERIOUS QUEBEC, Que., April 24. Hundreds of homes were threatened with destruction today as raging flood waters, reported the worst since 1917, swept over the Beauce district of Quebec. The Chaudiere River is over twenty-five feet above normal. Huge blocks of ice added to the menace of the flooding waters and a solid sheet 700 feet long, 200 feet wide and two feet thick crashed against the retaining wall near a large hotel at St. Joseph de Beauce, badly jarring the building. The ice pack was dynamited to prevent demolishment of the hotel Chateau Bellcvue. Ice packs three feet high piled up in the lower part of the village of St. George de Beauce, while packs twenty feet high were reported in other Beauce spots. Families who fled their homes Saturday but later returned were again fleeing from the flood waters yesterday. Canoes and boats are the sole means of transportation in the district, hampering the evacuation. Flood waters ripped down the poles and wires in St. George de Beauce, leaving the village lightless.
