AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.] ELEPHANTS RUN AMOK. NEW YORK. April ,18. At Newark. Now Jersey, three olephaiits. running wild in the heart of tho business district, train pled an elderly woman to death, injured two men. and three hundreds of women shoppers into a panic at the height of the mid-day traffic rush. The animals wore being led into the stage entrance of a theatre, where they were scheduled to give a performance following a parade through the street when a cat appearing from an alleyway terrified them. They broke from their trainers and charged wildly through the crowd that hail gathered to see them. Police reserves were called out. It took forty patrolmen and three trainers. after a chase of a mile, to coral anil quieten the beasts. FLOOD VICTIMS. WASHINGTON, April 19. The Reil Cross Society is issuing ail appeal for the Mississippi flood victims. The appeal compares the steady encroachment of the flood waters of this great river and its tributaries to an armed invasion. Twelve persons arc already reported to he dead, but the greatest danger lies in the devastation of large areas, and the driving out of their populations. which must be taken care of elsewhere. Shelter, food and clothing are at a premium. The families, with wlmt property they can move and thenlive stock, are steadily compelled to seek higher ground, and are being driven inland for many miles throughout the entire Mississippi Valley, but particularly from Cairo to New Orleans. Hundreds of army engineers, besides many volunteer workers, are virtually helpless in anything but rescue work in proximity to the flood areas. There have been twenty-five persons killed, anil over one hundred injured. There has been a series of tornadoes, which have swept through the States ~/ Illinois and Nebraska. Starting at the Mississippi River, near E led red, they spread devastation in many places. Tlie school houses at Centreville, Illinois, and Cliesnut, Nebraska, were destroyed, but all save five children were rescued alive.

, TORNADO LOSSES. KANSAS CITY. April 20. Rescue workers reported at least eleven killed. The tornado swept South Eastern Choctaw country. Oklohama. Meagre* reports from seven stricken counties in Illinois state four are dead, three missing and many injured. The school house at Ccntrevillc collapsed. Anna Keller, a teacher was killed and three of the twenty-five pupils are missing. TORNADO DAMAGE. NEW YORK, April 19. A message from Kansas City states tornados and cloudbursts last night and to-day added to the toll over a score of lives and unestimated damage was caused by the floods of the past week in huge areas of tho middle western and southern States, drained by the Mississippi and tributaries. Thousands have been driven from their homes between Illinois and the Gull of Mexico. Millions of acres of farm lands are inundated. FLOOD DAMAGES. NEW YORK. April 20. The destruction of property by storms and floods in Mississippi Basin and south central states continues unabated. Seventy-five persons are now dead, eight hundred injured and thirty thousand homeless. The minimum property damage is 25 million dollars, over twenty million acres of most fertile farm land in America, including some of the best oaten areas, are under water. Bad breaks in levees have now occurred at St. Louis, Memphis and Tennessee. Heavy spring I rains have brought the heights of Mississippi and tributaries to the greatest in the history of America, with the peak not vet reached. The situation is further aggravated by periodic wi--’ storms occurring throughout the week, accompanied in many cases by hail, doing vast damageILLEGAL SEIZURE. (Rece'vea this aav at P.su a.m.j SAN FRANCIS*.O, April 20. Federal Judge Bourquin ruled illegal to-dav. the sevaire recently four hundred miles off the coast of California by the United States coast guard of the Panama registered vessel Federal ship and million dollars of liquor cargo and u.e arrest of the captain and crew. WILKINS SAFE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 20. Word lias been received of Captain Wilkins and his companion Eielson.