AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
[Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.] STORM DAMAGE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 9. Cyclonic winds and rain storms caused damage- in sections of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, I own and Colorado, took fifty lives and injured three hundred. Winds demolished farm houses and uprooted trees. The towns most seriously hit are Garlam ami Nevada, Texas. Property damage is at present estimated at fourteen hundred thousand dollars. The Red Cross, which is already burdened with flood relief is being called upon to render assistance to the victims.
A message from New Orleans states the crisis of the Mississippi floods is expected on Wednesday, when engineers expect levee breaks tit Brigbend. They are doing everything to reinforce the levee, hut fear there is little chance of averting.
Subscriptions now total seven and a-lialf million dollars.
TORNADO DAMAGE. NEW YORK, May 9
A message from Dallas, 'lexas, states at least fifty were killed and more than one hundred injured by tornadoes in the middle west and south west States. The property damage is more than two million dollars. Texas was the hardest hit with twenty-five dead and fifty injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1927, Page 3
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192AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1927, Page 3
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