DEADLY TORNADO

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10854, 25 March 1929, Page 5

DEADLY TORNADO

BJG LOSS OE 'LIKE

BOY SCOUT’S AMONG' VICTIMS

FIVE STILL MISSING

i/nHca Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copy right (Australian Press Assn. — United Service) (Received March 25, 12.20 a.in.) VANCOUVER, March 24.

At A talari tif (Georgia;, tornadoes, rainstorms and floods, which whipped tlie whole country from South Louisiana to Virginia this weekend, (Tallied at least. thirtyfive lives and five are still missing. Harrirnan (Tennessee) reported that twenty were drowned in the Emery river which covered the city to a depth of thirty ieet. White Creek, near Roekwood (Tennessee) caught twenty-one Boy Scouts on a roof of a camping bungalow on Saturday and swept fight away. Three bodies have been recovered and five are still missing.

THIRTY-FOUR BOY SCOUTS MISSING. United Press Absh. by El. Tel..Copyrighi (Australian Press Association.) (Received March 20, 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 24. Atlanta South toriiight counted 2S: dead in communities which had beer v sited in the last 48 hours by _ i tornado and 'storms and torrentia rainfall, with the possibility that the total may reach 42. Twelve of the forty-eght Boj Scout.s, whose bungalow camp wa: swept into White Creelc near Rock wood, Tennessee, early this morning wen* reported recovered alive, tine two bodies were found. The remaind er are missing.

EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST IN TENNESSEE.

HEAVY DAMAGE TO LAND

United Press Assn, by El. Tet. Copyright

(Australian Press Association.) (Deceived March 20, 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 24

Harrimun (Tennessee) wax flooded by the Emery river. It is 'reported that eighteen were lost, eight being negroes, ineliiding five children, killed Ijv tornadoes. I n Mellellton, Alabama and Harrison. the Mississippi flood waters are lis'ng and spreading in Georgia and Kentucky. J lie C umherland and Kentucky rivers are washing over manv thousands of ‘aero-! of lands. Tli? storm has destroyed virtually all means oi communication, and onK meagre detail" oi the new lonei M ississsippi Valley flood disaster arc trickling in.