FLOODS
CABLE NEWS
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IN THE UNITED STATES LARGE AREA INUNDATED. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) " WASHINGTON, April 6. President Taffc has ordered the utilization of army supplies for the sufferers- by the floods. Congress is ready to provide monetary relief as soon as a clear .'den of the losses sustained is received. Carruthersville,'in Missouri, is nonthreatened. A largo area of thiekivsettled country will bo affecter if the flood defence works give way. Thousands are homeless in this country. Over 150 square miles of Hickman, Kentucky, was inundated when the. levee at Hickman hroke. Considerable loss of life is reported. All trains have been stopped. The river is still rising at Cairo aud the neighbourhood, and fully 600 miles of country along the Mississippi is affected. Altogether the death-list totals twenty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 5
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140FLOODS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 5
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