U.S. FLOOD DISASTER
five states involved.
(United Press Association. —By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.)
CHICAGO, Nov. ID
Overflowing streams are spreading death and destruction in five States toThe Mi' - : ■ is breaking its banks along the Illinois and Missouri borders. Uni ’T'edented rains brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood area, as Kansas and Oklahoma began to l recover from the most disastrous November flood on record.
Damage to property is already estimated at about ten million dollars. Seventeen are known to ho dead, and several thousands of families homeless, with cold and snow adding to their misery.
The Missouri, Mississippi and Grand Rivers are breaking the levees and inundating thousands of farm areas, drowning live stock and people. The highways and railways are either blocked or destroyed. Unverified repotrs of further deaths are beginning to come in.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1928, Page 5
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