FLOODS IN AMERICA.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. (Australian Press Association. —United Service.) CHICAGO, Nov. 19. Overflowing streams are spreading death and destruction in five States. The Mississippi is breaking its banks along the Illinois and Missouri' borders. An unprecedented rainfall has brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood area. The property damage is already estimated at above ten million dollars. Seventeen people aro known to be dead and several thousand families are homeless, with cold and snow • adding to their misery. The Missouri, Mississippi and Grand Rivers are breaking the levees, inundating thousands of farm acres and drowning live stock and people. The highways and railways are either blocked or .destroyed. Unverified reports of further deaths are beginning to come in.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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