DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS
500 DEATHS REPORTED OVER 200,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS (Received Oct, 2, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. I At least 500 people were killed or drowned in the worst floods in Vera Cruz for 22 years. Reports from Mexico City state that at least 200,000 people are homeless.
Vera Cruz is isolated, a nearby town has been inundated, and villages have been washed away. Crops suffered heavily. Fifty thousand tons of grain and 200,000 tons of sugar have been lost. Tobacco, banana and pineapple plantations have been ruined.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22468, 2 October 1944, Page 5
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