An air view of the waters of the swollen Ohio River pouring through a gap dynamited in the levee at Cairo, Illinois, at the function of the Mississippi, to food the lowlands in an attempt to save the city from inundation. Before the crest of the flood reached the Mississippi on January 29 it was estimated that more than 750.000 persons had been made homeless and property damage had occurred . estimated at as high as 300,000,000 dollars.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 6
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77An air view of the waters of the swollen Ohio River pouring through a gap dynamited in the levee at Cairo, Illinois, at the function of the Mississippi, to food the lowlands in an attempt to save the city from inundation. Before the crest of the flood reached the Mississippi on January 29 it was estimated that more than 750.000 persons had been made homeless and property damage had occurred . estimated at as high as 300,000,000 dollars. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 6
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