TOLL OF THE FLOODS
RUINED HOMES AT WESTPORT. By TEEEGBAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION. Westport, November 11. Visiting a number of homes to-day, a week after the flood, a “News” representative found many of them to be in a wrecked state, with water marks ranging from 2 feet up to (> feet high on the walls.. For the most part wallpapers are destroyed and must be replaced. Bedding, clothing, linoleums, furniture, books, and other contents have been ruined. A number of people escaped from their flooded houses only with the clothes they were wearing, and found on their return that other clothing had been ruined. A number of people "have fires going, burning bed-ding,-broken furniture, and other articless 110 longer fit for use. While something is being done for immediate relief bv local effort, the Idss in the aggregate is too great to be replaced in that manner.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 4
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144TOLL OF THE FLOODS Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 4
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