WHIPPED BY STORMS
STATES SUFFER FURTHER FLOODS MANY PEOPLE LOSE LIVES (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) NEW YORK, Sunday. Dispatches from Atlanta, Georgia, state that tornadoes, rain storms and floods are whipping the country from South Louisiana to Virginia. It is feared that at least 35 lives have been lost. At Harriman, Tennessee, 20 people were drowned in the Emery River, which covered the city to a depth of 30ft. At White Creek, near Kockwood, Tennessee, 21 Boy Scouts were caught on the roof of their camping bungalow on Saturday and were swept away. Three of the bodies have been recovered. Eight negroes, including five children. were killed by the tornadoes at Mellellton, Alabama, and Harrison, Mississippi. Flood waters are rising and spreading in Georgia and Kentucky. The Cumberland and Kentucky Rivers are washing over their banks and inundating many thousands of acres of land. The storms have destroyed virtually all means of communication, and only meagre reports of the new Lower Mississippi Valley flood disaster are trickling in.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 9
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