SERIOUS FLOODS
MUCH DAMAGE DONE
1Y CABLE—PB.EBB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGR'I WASHINGTON, April 11. A telegram from Chicago states that floods caused millions of dollars of damage throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and the south-west. There were several days heavy rainfall, and the rivers overflowed.
■ Numerous towns are several feet under water, and four persons have been drowned.
Severe snow and sleet storms in the Middle West demoralised the telegraph and railways.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5
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71SERIOUS FLOODS Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5
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