GREAT FLOODS
IN FIVE AMERICAN STATES RIVERS BREAK BANKS SPREADING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Rec. November 20, 7.25 p.m.) Chicago, November 19. Overflowing streams are spreading death and destruction in five States to-night. The Mississippi is breaking its banks along the Illinois and Missouri borders. An unprecedented rainfall has brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood area, as Kansas and Oklahoma slowlv began to recover from the most disastrous November flood on record. The property damage is already estimated at above ten million dollars. Seventeen people are known to be dead, and several thousand families are homeless, with cold and snow adding to their misery. The Missouri. Mississippi and Grand rivers are breaking the levees, inundating thousands of farm acres and drowning live stock and people. The highways and railways are either blocked or destroyed. Unverified reports of further deaths are beginning to come in.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 49, 21 November 1928, Page 11
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