Floods in America.
A torrent twenty-five feet deep and a hundred wide burst through an Illinois central railway embankment, flooding the southern half of Eastern St, Louis. A thousand labourers who were engaged in strengthening the embankment fled. Thirty were drowned. The damage by floods at St. Louis is estimated at £300,000. Ten thousand persons have been rendered Homeless,
[St. Louis.is thedifth city of the United States and commercial metropolis of the Mississippi valley. It is situated on the west bank of Mississippi river. It is built upon three gentle sloping terraces, the summit of the third being 200 feet above and four miles west of the river. Beyond this for miles the country is almost perfectly level. The city has a river frontage of 19 miles.] . ' I; . "'
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Manawatu Herald, 13 June 1903, Page 2
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128Floods in America. Manawatu Herald, 13 June 1903, Page 2
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