Torrential Rains Deluge Atlantic Seaboard; Great Damage

Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 6

Torrential Rains Deluge Atlantic Seaboard; Great Damage

(Received 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 24. JJORRENTIAL RAINS HAVE POURED DOWN ALONG OVER 1000 MILES OF THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD AND THE GULF STATES, AND AS WEST AS TEXAS, LEAVING AT LEAST EIGHT PERSONS DEAD AND 13 MISSING, AND CAUSING PROPERTY DAMAGE AMOUNTING TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Today was the seventh consecutive day of heavy rain in New York City and its vicinity. Early this morning a cloudburst caused a slide of mud and stones with which a train collided near New York, injuring 15 persons. The water blocked highways throughout the suburbs, and caused heavy damage to crops in New Jersey and Long Island.

■> A fatal bus accident and two drownings are reported from the metropolitan area. - In Maine and Massachusetts rain has been falling for a month, which is nearly a record, and in Connecticut it is estimated the damage to highways due to washouts and landslides is at least 10,001) dollars. Blinding rain caused a United States Navy bomber to crash near Woodbridge. Connecticut, killing the pilot and two passengers. Two persons were drowned, 13 are missing, and 500 have been driven from their homes, and damage amounting to at least 300,000 dollars has been done in West Texas, due to the overflow of the Sansaba River. Crop damage in New York State alone is expected to exceed 1,000,000 dollars. Air travel has been halted throughout the East.