TERRIBLE FLOODS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20440, 5 March 1938, Page 7

TERRIBLE FLOODS

DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 175 DEAD OR MlBBl NO GREAT DAMAGE IN AMERICA Cn/ted Press Asan.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received March 5. ill 5 a.m.) LOS ANGELES. March i At least 175 people are dead or 'missing in the floods. Thirty thousand square miles o» South California are still isolated, short-wave wireless being the only means of communication. Many sections brought new' reports hourly of death and destruction. The waters are receding and the weather is clearing after four days of cloud-bursts, but a score of towns are yet without power, unlighted, and some half-submerged by the ebbing waters. Bridges and roads are blocked by landslides. One thousand people are homeless. Rescue workers followed the receding waters searching for bodies in the debris. More than half the listed dead were missing, their bodies having been washed out to sea and lost. Aeroplanes are dropping food in some areas. The drinking water failed at Malibu Beach, the cinema colony. Rain water Is being hoarded. A quarter of Los Angeles was in darkness throughout the night. Film Star Rescued Madeleine Carroll, the English film actre-ss, was rescued from her home after being marooned for twenty four hours. One hundred wealthy tourists, including cinema players, are stranded at the exclusive Palm Springs resort. An aeroplane is prepared to carry there milk, bread, butter, meat and live hundred candles.