NEW FLOOD THREAT
WAVE NEARING PORTLAND SEARCH FOR MISSING CONTINUES NEW YORK, June 6. The Red Cross to-day listed a tctal of 52 persons—4s of them children—missing in Vanport, which was destroyed and submerged when flood waters crashed through the dykes of the Columbia River on May 30. Weary boat crews are still probing Vanport’s wreckage in the hope of finding more bodies before a new flood crest forces them to flee. The new wave is already roaring down Cascade Mountain Gorge, 100 miles from Portland, and is expected to hit Portland to-night. Troops and civilians are feverishly working side by side stacking sandbags along 120 miles of the Columbia River’s crumbling dyke walls. The floods have already inflicted millions of dollars’ worth of damage in the north-west. Engineers fear that the new crest will devastate Portland’3 industrial area.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26792, 8 June 1948, Page 5
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