"Evening Post" Photo. Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., speaking yesterday at the opening of the new open-air school at Karori.
An air view of the waters of the swollen Ohio River pouring through a gap dynamited in the levee at Cairo, Illinois, at the junction of the Mississippi, to flood the lowlands in an attempt to save the city from inundation. Before the crest of the flood reached the Mississippi on January 29 it was estimated that more than 750,000 persons had been-made homeless and property damage had occurred estimated at as high as 300,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 7
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96"•Evening Post" I'lioto. Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., speaking yesterday at the opening of the new open-air -school at Karori. An air view of the waters of the swollen Ohio River pouring through a gap dynamited in the levee at Cairo, Illinois, at the junction of the Mississippi, to flood the lowlands in an attempt to save the city from inundation. Before the crest of the flood reached'the Mississippi on January 29 it ivas estimated that more than 750,000 persons had been-made homeless and,property damage had occurred estimated at as high as '300,000,000 dollars. • • – Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 7
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