SERIOUS FLOODS.
AMERICAN CITY SURROUNDED Bt WATER. By Telecraph-Prcss ARSociat.ion-CopyrlKh.li (Rcc. April 6, 1.5 a.m.) New York, April 5. The city of Cairo, Illinois, is surround. e<l by'water, and trains and street cars have stopped running. The' Mississippi tore a large.rent in the protecting embankment. Five hundred workmen, endeavouring to erect dykes, nro surrounded, and in imminent peril of drowning. Tugs havo rescued a thousand people whose homes are flooded. No lives have been lost.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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75SERIOUS FLOODS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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