FRESH FLOOD CREST FEARED IN U.S. CITY
(Roe. 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK. -Tune 6. The Red Cross today listed a total of 52 persons—ls of them children —missing in Vanport, which was destroyed when flood waters crashed through the dykes of Columbia river on May 30. Weary boat crews are still probing Vanport’s wreckage in the hope of finding more bodies before a new flood crest forces them to flee. The new wave is already roaring down Cascade mountain gorge. 100 miles from Portland, and is expected lo hit Portland tonight. Troops and civilians are feverishly working side by side, stacking sandbags along 120 miles of Columbia river’s crumbling dyke walls. The floods have already inflicted millions of dollars' worth of damage in the north-west. Engineers fear the new erest will devastate Portland's industrial area.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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