FLOODS IN AMERICA.
STATES DEVASTATED.
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS
HOMELESS.
DESTRUCTION OF A TOWN.
MANY FATALITIES.
TJjjited Prea» J^oaiaMtm—Sj Blectrio Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received June 1, 9.12 a.m.)
NEW YORK, May 31.
Unprecedented rain has fallen in the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and lowa, and twenty thousand people are homeless and fourteen lives have been lost. Railway lines, bridges, crops and bouses on the low-lying tracts have been destroyed. A quantity of burning timber, afloat on the river, set fire to North Topeka, which is separated from the mainland by ths floods. Thirty persons are already dead and another five hundred are beyond rescue. The Kansas river is rising afc the rale of three inches an hour, and the swiftness of tho flood prevents tho rescue. Steven thousand escaped yesterday, but throe thousand are still in tha upper storeys of the buildings of, the burning town. *
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7720, 1 June 1903, Page 2
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