U.S.A. STORMS
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.)
(Recd. August 13, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 12. A message from Atlanta (Georgia) states that four persons were killed in tropical storms, which struck Not th and South Carolina to-day, after working their way from the West Indies through Florida and Georgia last week, and doing damage amounting to many million dollars there, wiping out whole towns, uprooting orchards, and flooding wide areas in the rich Piedmont section. Carolina has been badly hit, and tonight flood conditions caused by unprecedented • rains, menace several communities crippling communications disrupting power services, and paralysing railway and highway traffic.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1928, Page 5
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