NEW FLOOD THREATENS PORTLAND: 52 CITIZENS OF VANPORT MISSING
. 5 .Z.P.A. —Reuter —Copyright.) (11.30 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, June li. The Red Cross today listed a total of 52 persons—4s of them children—missing in Vanport, which was submerged when floodwaters crashed through the dykes of the Columbia River on May 30.
Weary boat crews are still probing Vanport’s wreckage in the hope ot finding more bodies before a new flood forces them to flee.
A new wave is already roaring down Cascade Mountain Gorge, 100 miles from Portland, and is expected to hit Portland tonight. Troops and civilians are feverishly working side by side stacking sandbags along 120 miles of the Columbia River's crumbling dyke walls. The floods have already inflicted millions of dollars worth of damage in the north-west. Engineers fear that_ the new crest will devastate Portland’s industrial area.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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140NEW FLOOD THREATENS PORTLAND: 52 CITIZENS OF VANPORT MISSING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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