Flood Disaster
American States DAMAGE EXCEEDS TEN MILLION DOLLARS Seventeen Lives Lost (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.25 p.m.) Chicago, November 19. Overflowing streams are spreading death and destruction in five States to-night. The Mississippi is breaking its banks along the Illinois and Missouri borders. An unprecedented rainfall brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood area as Kansas and Oklahoma slowly began to recover from the most disastrous November flood on record. Property damage is already estimated above 10,000,000 dollars. Seventeen are known to be dead and several thousand families are homeless with cold and snow adding to the misery. The Missouri, Mississippi and Grand Rivers are breaking the levees and inundating thousands of farm acres, drowning live stock and people. The highways and railways are either blocked or destroyed. Unverified reports of further deaths are beginning to come in.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20648, 21 November 1928, Page 5
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