Tremendous Toll of Flood
400,000,000 DOLLARS DAMAGE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 30. A special flood commission is meeting at Washington on Monday. President Roosevelt announced a threefold plan for immediate small scale financial aid for the needy from the Red Cross funds which have already received 6,417,000 dollars, Government loans to aid storekeepers whose stocks are damaged and Federal housing loans to restore homes. The Red Cross’s latest figures of the flood destruction are 400 dead, 400,000,000 dollars property damage, 800,000 homes flooded, 572,000 homeless, and 236,000 marooned.
The Weather Bureau at Washington indicates the average annual flood damage in the United States between 1905 and 1935 at 89 lives and 40,000,000 dollars. Last gear’s floods property damage is already 25 per cent, below the present in which it is estimated that 60,000,000,000 tons of water are trying to seek the sea. Rain is predicted, tomorrow in the Ohio river valley and occasional rain showers fell in the Lower Mississippi.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 8
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