AMERICAN FLOODS

Evening Star, Issue 19709, 9 November 1927, Page 5

AMERICAN FLOODS

DANGER DEFINITELY PAST EIGHTY-FIVE BODIES IDENTIFIED WORK OF REHABILITATION PROGRESSING. Pross Asiociation—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 8. (Received November 9, at 12.5 p.m.) With the further danger Irom the New England Hoods definitely past, the work of relief and rehabilitation is progressing rapidly. Soldiers and Red Cross volunteers arc caring for the refugees in temporary barracks. The situation generally has greatly improved, notwithstanding the snow and tf(e intense cold weather. In some sections sufficient food and medical supplies have reached the centres where suffering is most severe, and the danger of disease lias been greatly lessened. It is impossible at present to compile a complete list of the dead, but 85 bodies have been identified, the majority of whom were residents of Vermont.

An enormous acreage of land is under water, rendering many homes still inaccessible to the rescuers with supplies, but the problem is now largely one of administration and the re-establishment of the lines of communication.