STORMY WEATHER
FLOODS AND STORMS IN U.S.A. (Per Press Association —Copyright NEW YORK, April 21 News from Kansas City states that beneath overcast skies thousands <2 farmers and townspeople in the Southern and M ddle-Western States on Wednesday were marooned in tl lo Mississippi tributaries. They need food and shelter aud at» faced with uncertainty that the floods, which have alreadv taken a t°h of scores of lives, have reached tbetr crest. The tornadoes which followed the floods increased the death list, which will be over 1000. Tuesday’s freak storm in Ulinoi-' alone caused damage estimated al 1,000,000 dollars. Red Cross and other relef worker* are hampered by impassable road*. The worst inundations are re|icrted in Arkansas. Special trains carried materials to strengthen the dykes, which uevertbe less broke away in many places. In some districts refugees are ivported to be clinging to trees and church steeples to escape the risiug ua-.ers.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 22 April 1927, Page 6
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