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IMMINENT INUNDATION MIGHTY RIVERS RISING. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FEARS, (Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, March , 14-; Prophesies of widespread floods in the Mississippi Valley are manifest in the West, where the people fear that the great flood of 1927 may be repeated this spring. The Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin rivers are beyond their banks, and great deposits of snow await "warmer weather to bring them down the Mississippi Valley. Every important stream in the Missouri Valley and in the North-West is rising, with the upper Mississippi at flood stage. Galena, in Illinois, is undergoing the worst floods for 15. years, and the water is still rapidly rising. Two railways are tied up and many farms are flooded.;:
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1929, Page 7
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