Thousands Homeless In United States
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Received Sunday, 7.25 p.m» NEW YORK, May 29, At least 15,000 persons kaye been made homeless, 15 had been di'owned and millions of dollars of crop, waterfront and industrial dsmage has been inflicted by spring thaw fioocls surging over ifuge sections of Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Rising waters, swejied b.oth by rains and melting spqw, thi'Gatened fioqds of disastrous proportions 011 many t'ronts. Along almost the full course of the Columbia river, the sitpation was repopted to be the worst since 1894 and the peak has stib to hit with full foree downstream. The Governor of Idaho has proclahned a statmof emergency.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1948, Page 5
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