MISSISSIPPI FLOODS AGAIN BRING DEATH
DAMAGE RUNS TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m, CHICAGO, Nov. 19. Overflowing streams are spreading death and .destruction in five States. To-night the Mississippi is breaking its banks along the Illinois and Missouri borders. Unprecedented rainfall wrought Kentucky and Illinois in>) the • flood area as Kansas and Oklahoma slowly began to recover from the most disastrous November flood on record. The property damage is already estimated at above ten million dollars. Seventeen are known to be dead and several thousand families are homeless with cold and snow adding to the misery 1 : The Missouri, Mississippi and Grand rivers are braking their levees, inundating thousands of farm acres and drowning livestock 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 Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6766, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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