The city of Hyderabad in India grew on the shores of the 'Rūd-i Mūsī'. This rivulet runs through the city and eventually falls into the river Krishna. It also divides the city into the old and the new Hyderabad. The rivulet has often been flooded and caused havoc in the city but the flood in the first decade of the twentieth century (1908) was exceptionally devastating. This tragedy as it was expressed in Urdu poetry is briefly discussed in this article. Poets who composed work on this incident include Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, Syed Ahmad Husain Amjad Hyderabadi, Muhib Husain Muhib, Saifuddin Shabab and Muhammad Abdul Karim Khan.