DISASTROUS FLOODS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 23 November 1928, Page 2

DISASTROUS FLOODS

OVEP TEN AI.iLLi.ONS DAMAGE. Overflowing stream* are spreading death and destruction in live Mates (says a message Horn Chicago). The Mississippi is breaking its hanks along tile Illinois and Missouri borders. Unprecedented rainfall has brought Kentucky and Illinois into the tlooo ■area as Kansas and Oklahoma slowly began to recover from last year’s most disastrous November Hood. Property damage' is already estimated above ten million dollars. Seventeen are known to lie dead and several thousand families are. homeless, with eold and snow adding to their misery, The -Missouri. Mississippi and ft rand Livers are breaking their levees, inundating thousands of acres of farms ami drowning livestock and people. Highways and railways are either blocked or destroyed. Jveporls of further deaths are beginning to come in. but have not been vended.