FLOODS IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 5

FLOODS IN AMERICA

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. SMALL TOWNS COMPLETELY DESTEOYED. RAILWAY TRAINS BLOWN OVER. THE STORM CONTINUES. Proa* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, March 29.

(Received March 30, at 11.5 p.m.) A telegram from Kansas City states that another of those terrific storms which have been taking toll of lives and property this winter occurred during the last 24 hours. This time it was a tornado and floods, which extended eastward from the Rocky Mountains. Thirty are dead already, and it is reported that many hundreds are injured. Three small towns in Illinois have been completely destroyed, and the fate of thousands of inhabitants have not been determined. The wind and the storm cut across country to the south, demolishing thousands of buildings. Four hundred students of a school at Shawnee, Oklahoma, were dismissed when the teacher saw the clouds massing. The building was demolished a few minutes later. Railway trains in many parts of the country were blown from their tracks, and snow-slides have occurred. The Utah River, emptying into the Mississippi, overflowed its banks, and large sections of four States have been flooded. The storm is continuing, with blizzards and torrential rains.—A. and N.Z. Cable.