FORTY DEATHS WHEN RIVER DESTROTS TOWN
Received Friday, 9.25 a.m. CARACAS (Venezuela), Oct. 30. xVoout 40 persons died when the town oi Egidio was destroyed during the night after the Montalban River burst its retaining walls neai'by and surgeri over the sleeping ( onvnunitv. Tli" Ministiy of the Interior saui that only 17 bodies had been reeovered. The Government had sent supplies and medicine by plane to Egido, which is in Merida Siate n W: :tern Venezuela.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1947, Page 5
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