NEW ENGLAND FLOODS
DANGER PAST • (By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) (Received 9th Nov., 12.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Bth Nov. . With further danger from the.. New England floods definitely past, the work of relief and rehabilitation is progressing rapidly. Soldiers and Red Cross volunteers are caring for refugees in temporary barracks. t The situation generally has greatly improved, notwithstanding snow and intense cold weather in some sections. Sufficient food and medical supplies have reached centres where suffering is most severe, and danger of -disease has been greatly lessened. , It is impossible at present to compile a complete list of dead, but 85 bodies have been identified, the majority of whom were residents of Vermont. An enormous acreage of land is. under water, rendering many homes still inaccessible to rescuers with supplies, but the problem is now largely one ot administration and re-establishment of lines of communication.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 5
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