A HUNDRED DEAD
TOLL OF THE ALABAMA FLOODS. BATTLE BEING WAGED AGAINST DISEASE. PROPERTY LOSS OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. I (Received Tuesday, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 19. News from Birmingham (Alabama) states that those known to be dead as a result of the flood number 17, while an official estimate places the dead in this State alone at one hundred. The National Guard and public health services are battling with disease. Martial law continues to prevent the spread of attempted, looting. The homeless population in some centres will be allowed to return to their wrecked homes to-morrow. Measles, pneumonia and typhoid cases are reported, and polluted , water is greatly menacing the refugees. In Alabama the waters are receding; but conditions in the Georgia and Florida areas aro still acute. The property damage is now estimated at 20 million dollars.—(Australian Press Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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148A HUNDRED DEAD Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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