HOMELESS REFUGEES
NUMBER 100,000. DEATH ROLL INCREASED. MISSISSIPPI FLOOD VICTIMS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, April 22. At least thirty more, were drowned in the Mississippi floods during the past twenty-four hours, bringing the total death roll from water and cyclones to 200. with many centres not yet heard, from. The numbers of injured or missing are sti’l increasing. Biting cold added to the tragedy, and thousands of destitute people, in concentration camps have only a canvas shelter. The rise of the rivers has affected the water supplies, and in, many (instances the sewers have backed up, and epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and other diseases are feared. Further breaks in the levee have occurred and propertv damage is now beyond anv immediate estimate.
Approximately one hundred thousand people are homeless. The floods have not yet reached their peak.
NINETEEN PEOPLE DROWNED. NEW YORK, April 22. Nineteen were drowned when, a Government launch carrying refugees up the Mississippi was caught in a torrent. The levee broke last night at Knowlton Landing, Arkansas. —Sydney Sun Cable. i.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 9
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175HOMELESS REFUGEES Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 9
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