FLOODS IN AMERICA
OUTBREAKS OF FEVER. ANOTHER EMBANKMENT CARRIED AWAY. MEMPHIS, April 9. The Mississippi flood danger is passing, and the river is falling. NEW YORK, April 9. A crisis has been reached in regard to the flood. If the dykes hold for another day the danger will be past. The total losses already amount to £2,000,000. Thirty thousand people who are-home-less are living in tents. The army supplies are arriving. April 12. Reports everywhere indicate a subsidence of the floods, but there are serious outbreaks of fever among the refugees' camps. Six thousand people are homeless. There have been several deaths from fever, and there are some smallpox cases. April 13. Reports from New Orleans state that the Mississippi broke an embankment near Alsatia, and 1000 square miles are flooded. Thousands of families are homeless. Steamboats have been despatched to aid the refugees.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 26
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