CENTRAL U.S. FLOODS WORST FOR TEN YEARS

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1947, Page 4

CENTRAL U.S. FLOODS WORST FOR TEN YEARS

(Rec. 8.20) NEW YORK, June 26. Floods continue in towns in the States of Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, with the homeless aggregating 40,430. This is the highest number of flood refugees since 1937. Blocks are inundated to a depth of eight feet in Des Moines, where the Des Moines and Daccoon Rivers meet. Other rivers in flood include the Missouri and the Mississippi. In- the last three weeks floods have inundated thirty-five hundred thousand acres, causing property and corn crop damage estimated at two hundred million dollars. The Missouri has broken through 88 of its 249 levees in its course, and in places it is ten miles out of its banks.

Messrs J. B. Pringle, F. Holmes, D. Sugar and L. Carruthers, Mr and Mrs McNeil, Mr J. Barber and Mr and Mrs Coy arrived yesterday from Christchurch and are guests at the Albion Hotel.