WILD WEATHER
TORNADOES AND FLOODS IN AMERICA. TOLL OF DEATHS & DAMAGE BUILDINGS WASHED AWAY (Received Friday, 5.5 p.m.). NEW YORK, April 5. News from Kansas City states that cloud bursts and cyclonic wind storms whipped through the South-West. Four lives are known to he lost. Five persons are missing, hundreds are homeless and many thousands of dollars’ worth of property has been damaged. Tornadoes axe reported at half a dozen places in Kansas, Oklohoma, Texas and Arkansas. A deluge of rain followed the winds, flooding the lowland areas for miles. Communications from tho stricken points arc demoralised and order is not yet restored in many places, making an accurate cheek of tho numbers dead and injured impossible. Rain at Shawnee (Oklahoma) washed scores of houses and business buildings from their foundations. A flood at Oa.ters swept away two women.—(Australian Press Association).
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1928, Page 5
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