AMERICAN TARNADOES
At Least 500 Lives Lost THREAT OF FLOODS NEW YORK, April 7. Rising rivers added the threat of widespread floode to the distress in the six southern States stricken by tornadoes, which are now believed to have claimed at least 500 lives. Already 450 bodies have been recovered. One thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven persons were badly injured and many hundreds less seriously hurt. The damage is estimated at 25,000,000 dollars. Four inches rainfall which overnight coursed through the Carolina foothills, washed away bridges, flooded highways and drove hundreds of persons from their homes. The American Refl Cross announced that the tornado had produced the third worst disaster on record in the United States. It will take ten years for the affected communities, which are not rich industrially, to recover from their economic losses.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 9 April 1936, Page 9
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