DEATH & RAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1936, Page 5

DEATH & RAIN

HURRICANE’S TOLL DEVASTATION IN RUMANIA. (United Press Association —By Electric Toiegraph—Copyright). BUKAREST, July 16. Many persons were killed and heavy damage caused to property by a violent hurricane, followed by torrential rain, which swept over the provinces of Moldavia and Bessarabia. Rivers burst their hanks and washed away portions of two of the most important railways connecting Bukarest with Galatz and Kishinev, suspending all traffic. Houses were swept away, drowning their occupants. •

Three of five children playing in a yard at Dorohoe were killed by lightning and the others paralysed. Kishinew, which is Rumania’s largest city is isolated from the rest of. the country, and the lower part of the town submerged. U.S. DEATH ROLL OVER 420. BISMARCK (North Dakota), July 17. With the nation’s death roll as the result of the drought, estimated at 422, and the damage exceeding' the 1934 drought total, Mr Tugwell to-day announced a plan whereby the Government will conduct Vast .migration from the stricken areas. For example, thirty per cent, of the farm population in the parched area north of Dakota is to he shifted to 'the comparatively fertile Red River Valley. Meanwhile the searing beta continin the Mid-west maize belt.