SUDDEN DISASTER
CAUSED BY CLOUDBURST IN KENTUCKY HILL STREAMS BECOME RAGING TORRENTS. MANY KILLED & THOUSANDS HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 5. A Morehead (Kentucky) message states that a cloudburst resulting in floods took at least thirty-eight lives in the north-eastern communities of the State and macle many thousands’ homeless. Usually small streams, such as the Triplett and Tygart, flowing from picturesque hill country, momentarily became raging torrents, sweeping all before them, trapping inhabitants in their homes and destroying much property. It is feared that a further check up will disclose a much higher death-roll.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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101SUDDEN DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 8
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