MORE DISASTERS IN U.S.A.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 354, 8 February 1937, Page 5

MORE DISASTERS IN U.S.A.

GAS EXPLOSIONS SNOW MELTING. I Floods Now Threaten South Of California. Press Association—Copyright. Louisville, February 6. Two gas explosions and a fire, effects of the flood, destroyed two and three-storey buildings in the heart section of Louisville to-day. Seven bodies were removed from the wrecked buildings, and three oiffier persons are believed to be buried in the debris.

The lots of property is estimated at £lO,OOO. Two similar explosions in 24 hours razed a business building and a factory. No one was killed, but the loss is estimated at £20,000. The water is falling at Cairo. Lower Mississippi River points are still endangered and the dynamiting of several levees has been considered. The levees are still holding along the swollen river, but a dysentery epidemic is reported among the levee workers and has resulted in an order for the chlorination of all wells. Ths crest of the flood has l reached Memphis, and the Ohio River is failing steadily. Steady rain has melted the snow on the mountains and brought threats of floods in southern California. An earth slide blocked one railway line and water covered the tracks of another in several places. In an effort to save 800 persons marooned in the town of Wcodlakc. the evacuation of the town and of the lowlands nearby was ordered. Six persons died of cold in temperatures below zero In North Dakota. Scores of motorists are marooned as a result of snowstorms throughout the north-west. •< One hundred and sixfy Minnesota high school students are marooned in a country school house.