FLOOD AND TORNADO IN U.S.A.
MISSISSIPPI AGAIN DANGEROUS. United Press Association—By Elcctrit Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 1 a.m, NEW YORK, March 23. Twelve of the 48 boy scouts whose bungalow camp was swept into White Creek near Rockwood. Tennessee, early this morning were reported recovered alive and two bodies have been found. The remainder are missing. Harriman, Tennessee, is floodod by the Emery River and It is reported that 18 lives were lost. Eight negroes, including five children, were killed by tornadoes in Mellellton, Alabama, and Harrison. The Mississippi food waters are rising and spreading in Georgia and Kentucky. The Cumberland and Kentucky rivers are washing over many thousand acms of land. Storms have destroyed virtually all the means of communication and only meagre details of the new Lower Mississippi valley flood disaster ore trickling in. Atlanta South to-night counted 28 dead in communities which have been visited in the last 48 hours by tornadoes and storms and torrential rainfall with a possibility tbc total may reach 42.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6868, 25 March 1929, Page 7
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