OVER 40,000 HOMELESS
WIDESPREAD FLOODS IX U.S.A. NEW YORK. June 2d Floods continue in the towns of Nebraska, Missouri, and Illinois, with the someless aggregating 40,430 —the highest number of flood refugees since 1037. Blocks are inundated to a depth of eight feet in Des Moines, where the Des Moines and Daccoon Rivers meet. Other rivers in flood include the Missouri and Mississippi. In the hist three weeks floods have inundated 3,."00,000 acres, causing property and corn damage estimated at 200,000,000 dollars. The Missouri has broken through 88 of the 240 levees in its course, and in places is 10 miles out of its banks.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 219, 28 June 1947, Page 5
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