DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1903, Page 3

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN AMERICA.

OUOHKAK OF FIRE. THOUSANUS KHaDEKED HOMEIEsS. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. FSB PBE3S, ASSOCIATION. Niw Yobk, May 31. There is unprecedented ruin in the Indian teirio'y. In Oklahatca, Kansas, Missou i, Nebraska and lowa twenty thousand people ire h r melees, and fourteen deaths have oceutred. The railway line 3, bridge', crops, and bouses on the lowlying tracts have been destroyed. A quictiiy of burning lumbar afloat ,on the river set fire to North Topeka, i which was separated from the mainland |by floods. Thirty persor.B are already ! dead, and another five hundred are belyond rescue, The Kansas Rive- i« .rising at the rate of fevea inrhesap hour, and the swiftness c.f the flicd prevents any r«scue. S:ven thcusind escaped yesterdsy, but three thoußiod I are still in the upper s'orejs of the buldings of the buroiug town. HBAVy LO3SEB. Received 2,12.G9 p m. Niw Yoek, April 1. Two hundred p:rs3na peiishtd a North Topeka. The heivy rains ex'irguished the fire. Many of the v : ctims nePuwians and Italians employed in tl e factories. The lofs s of Kansas packing houses are etormi u >. Three fourths of tl etown of Armourdale is fiool<d.