DISASTROUS FLOODS
American Rivers Overflow and Spread Destruction (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) Received Nov. 20, 10. iO p.m. CHICAGO, Nov. 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, and the unprecedented rainfall has brought Kentucky and Illinois into the flood area just as Kansas and Oklahoma are slowly beginning to recover from the most disastrous November flood on record. The property damage is already estimated at above ten million dollars, seventeen persons are known io be dead, and several thousand families are homeless, with cold and snow adding to the miseiy. The Missouri, Mississippi and Crand rivers are breaking levees and inundating thousands of farm acres, drowning live stock and people. Highways and railways are either blocked or destroyed. Unverified reports of further deaths are beginning io come in.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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148DISASTROUS FLOODS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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