AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association
NEW ENGLAND FLOOD
•ENORMOUS SCFFEII IXG ENTAILED.
(Received this day at 11.0 a.m.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 7
•Military authorities estimate the death roll in New England floods at 125. With 7G bodies already identified, it is expected the first estimate of two hundred will lulUimately be reached. Fifty thousand ore homeless and more than fifty towns devastated. The total property damage is now believed to be over one hundred million dollars. The danger of fire, famine, pestilence and disease has increased the misery of the sutiering population. Fire has already broken out at Ludlow and Vermont, but lias been controlled, after a hard fight in intense voters are receding in the worst affected sections of Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine but the crest of the flood lias descended into Connecticut, where the prospects of great damage are foreseen.
Suffering is particularly intense in tho vicinity of Montepelier where sill schools are closed and will probably not lx l reopened for several days. Martial law lias been invoked at Bane, where guards are phtrolling the ruins of the city, and they have been ordered to shoot looters.
Numerous victims of the flood were rescued from house tops after being marooned without food or water for forty-eight hours, and were sent to Vie |hospitals suffering from '.exposure. Many homes arc submerged to the second stories. Thousands of linns and industrial plants arc crippled or ruined. Electrical power failed and candles and lanterns are frequently the only illumination. Food shortage resulted from flooded railroads. Aeroplanes rushed typhoid serum and medicines to the stricken (areas.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 3
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269AMERICAN CABLE NEWS Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 3
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