AMERICAN ITEMS,

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1921, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS,

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,

aviatrix killed

NEW YORK, June 6

Miss Laura Brooimvell, holder of the looping the loop record and a daring aviatrix, was killed in sight of a hig crowd at Mitchell field. Her plane crashed 1000 feet after the first loop.

CUBAN SUGAR CRISIS

N'RW YORK, June 4

The hanks here, though admitting that they are facing staggering losses in Cuba, declare that they cannot pull out there, because* it would mean the financial collapse of the island. One of the executive said that every hit of credit is solidly frozen in unliquidated sugar, hut their Customers will ho carried until the situation is better. The New York hanks have $400,000,000 tied up in Cuban sugar. There are 149 mills grinding

TOLL OF THE FLOOD

NEW YORK. *June 6,

Pueblo reports state the best estimates place the toll of . the flood at 150 lives, and the damage to property at 10,000,000 . dollars, hut unofficial estimates range from 100 to 3000 casualties. The flood in Arkansas River receded on Sunday morning, but rain was falling at Shagway and caused a dam to burst later in the day, though the new flood did not develop seriously.

Late in the afternoon, however, a telegraphist at Pueblo sent a message as follows: “Another flood is upon us. We are ordered to quit.” This was the last message received. A courier says the country between Pueblo and Uepesta is a huge lake. The railways and telegraph poles have disappeared. ENORMOUS DAMAGE. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 6. Reports filtering through from the flood area, show that sixteen towns are under three to fifteen feet of water. At Loveland, two reservoir dams broke, obliterating the railway and irrigatior ditches throughout the district anr collapsed four big dams likewise. De vastation is so widespread, and report! so numerous and conflicting that it ii impossible to estimate the deaths n damage. The populations in the affect ed cities had either fled as soon as : warning was received, or were rescue* by fleets of boat*.