AMERICAN FLOODS

Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6

AMERICAN FLOODS

ANOTHER VISITATION SOUTH-EASTERN STATES Pres* Association—By Teiegraph—Copyright. ATLANTA (Georgia). Alarc'i -I. Tornadoes, rainstorms, and Hoods are nlti[>j>i itfr South Lonisiania to Virginia this week-end, ami have, claimed at least thirty-live lives, while live persons are .missing. Marriman (Tennessee) reported that twenty _ were drowned in the Kniery Itivcr, which has covered the city to a depth ol .”>1)11. Whit,; Creek, near Pockwood (Tennessee) caught twenty-one liny Scouts on the root ot a bungalow on Saturday, and swept eight away. Three bodies have been recovered. —Austrakan Press Association-United Service.

FURTHER DETAILS. ATLANTA, March AI. 7 Atlanta South to-night counted twenty-eight dead in the communities which have been visited during the last lortymigbt hours hy a tornado and storms and torrential rninlali. with the possibility that the total may roach forty-two. Twelve of the forty-eight Boy Scouts whose bungalow cam)) was swept into White Creek, near Rockwood (Tennessee), early this morning were reported to have been recovered alive, and two bodies were found. The remainder are missing. Harriman (Tennessee), which is flooded by the Emery River, has reported that eighteen are lost, ami eight negroes (including five children) were killed hy tornadoes at Wellington. The flood waters arc rising and spreading in (Jeorgia and Kentucky, and the Cumberland and Kentucky Rivers are washing over many thousands of aero of lands. The storms have destroyed virtually all the means of communication, and only meagre details of the new Lower Mississippi Valley Hood disaster are trickling in.—Australian Press Association. 1 ! I ■ 1 1