FLOODS IN U.S.A.

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1929, Page 5

FLOODS IN U.S.A.

MANY LIVES LOST (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Recd; March 25, 9 a.m.) ATLANTA, March 24. Tornadoes, rainstorms and floods are whipping South Louisiana to Virginia this week-end, and claimed at least thirty-five lives. Five are missing. Harrinan (Tennessee) reported twenty drowned by the Emery river which covered the city to a depth of thirty feet. At White Creek near Rockwood (Tennessee) the flood caught twenty-one boy scouts on the roof of a camping bungalow on Saturday, and swept eight away. Three bodies are recovered and five are missing. LATER— Atalanta South to-night counted 28 dead in communities which had been visited in the last 48 hours by the tornado and storms and torrential rainfall, with a possibility that the total may reach 42. Twelve of the 48 boy scouts near Rockwood (Tennecessee) early this morning were reported recovered alive, and two bodies were found. The remainder are missing. -

Harrinan (Tennessee) reported the loss of eight negroes, including five children, killed by tornadoes.

At Mellellton, Alabama and Harrison, the Mississippi flood waters are rising and spreading in Georgia and Kentucky. The Cumberland and Kentucky rivers are washing over many thousands of acres. The storms have destroyed virtually all means of communication, and only meagre details of the new lower. Mississippi Valley flood disaster are trickling in.