Storms' toll six
NZPA-Reuter New York Killer floods, avalanches, and heavy snows have ravaged America’s West as a wintry storm worked its way toward the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. I At least 8000 people fled itheir homes, and six were I killed in Arizona where 119 cm of rain in two days [sent streams and rivers on a rampage, inundating roads and washing away bridges. Four persons in a van plunged to their deaths in the swollen Agua Fria River when a big bridge collapsed at Black Canyon City. Another Arizona man was swept away when he ventured too close to the Salt River in suburban Tempe, and a woman was drowned when her car stalled in clear Creek near Prescott.
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Press, 21 December 1978, Page 8
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