HURRICANE DEATHS
Tail Sweeps Over Canada (NX.P.A.-Reuter—Copvrtght) NEW YORK, Sept. 16. The tail-end of the once mighty hurricane, “Carla,” slipped over the border into Canada yesterday, but left behind a trail of death and destruction In a sweep across Michigan, it dumped up to lOin of rain on the Traverse Bay region, washed out two power dams, and wrecked power and telephone lines A youth was washed from a pier at Grand Haven and drowned when winds threw up 20ft waves on Lake Michi-, gan. Rescue workers in the Kansas City area, washed by flash floods earlier in “Carla’s" rampage, discoverered the body of a sixth flood victim. Forty-two persons are dead or missing along the hurri-cane-battered Texas end Louisiana coasts, bringing the storm’s probable death total to 48. Hurricane hunters elsewhere kept an anxious eye on “Carla’s" successor, hurricane "Esther,” which maintained a steady course towards the United States mainland.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29621, 18 September 1961, Page 11
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