MISSISSIPPI FLOODS
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 6, 1.5 a.m. New York, April 4. The city of Cairo, Elinois, is surrounded by water and is without trains or street cars. The Mississippi tore a large rent in the protecting em'bankment. Five hundred workmen, seeking to erect dykes, were surrounded with water, and in imminent peril of drowning, when tugs rescued thean. Ten thousand homes are flooded, but no lives have been lost.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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71MISSISSIPPI FLOODS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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