MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
danger feared again
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NEW YORK, March IS. Prophecies of widespread Hoods in the Mississippi River are inaniiest in the West, where the people tear tint the great flood of the year 1927 may be repeated this spring. In Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, rivers are now Hooded beyond their banks, and great deposits of snow await wanner weather to bring them down into the Mississippi V alley. Every’important stream in' the .Missouri Valley and in the north-wesi is rising, with the Upper Mississippi River already at the flood stage. Now. the Golena River in the Stale of Illinois' is undergoing its worst flood for fifteen years, and the water in- it is still rapidly rising. < Two of the railways are tied up, ' and manv of the farms are flooded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 5
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136MISSISSIPPI FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 5
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