Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-22
SEVERE STORMS
CAUSE LOSS OF
SCORE OF LIVES,
Much Property Damage
AS T0rnadOes Sweep
Southern States.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, April % U.R)- -
Floods, toruadocs and hail storms
IN the middle west and south over
tha week end took toll af 2f
lives and caused property damage
estimated in the millions.
Menace Of major flood on the
MississiPpi-fcarcd wleu .evc.s
gave way at Canton, Mo, was dis
counted by weather bureau officials
today, however, with reacdiHg
waters north of thrrr.
One workman WIS swept awav by
tie swollen Bcs Pores river here. -
persons were killed by week end
tcrnadocs in Arkansas, Mississippi,
Kansas. Oklahoma ANA Louisiana.
and two boys, were killed by light-
ming at Walton, Ky.
National guardsman patrollcd the
Mississippi river Icvers at Quincy.
Ill.,, north OF hero, when leycos.
weakened from four weeks Of steady
flood pressure, Socpcd dangerously.
1t Canton, Mo, across the river
from Quincy, 80 homes We're isola.
ed by flood waters from the Nissis.
sippi which crumhlcd Ieyees and in
undated hundreds Of acres Of fer.
tile farm lands.
\ general rise of three feet in the
Mississippi river level here in u
hours was predicted with stage
Of 3l.5 feet expected by Friday,
against a flood level Of 80 feet. Key
points on both the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers were expected t.
witness above flood stage levels
but little damage was anticipated.
Dynamite was used on a lcyec at
Fabius river in Lewis county, Mo.
to relieve the pressure at Quincy
and at Canton, inundating additions
al hundreds Of acres of land.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. April %.
U.R)-A series of freallish lorna
does and rainstorms swept the
southwest from Texas to MiSsis.
sippi over the week end laavm-
in their wake crumbling riv.l
levees, flooded farm lands and &
heavy toll Of death and Itopcrts
damage.
Twenty persons vrre known t.
have been killed in toruadoes which
struck in sections of Kansas. Mis-.
souri,. Arkansas and Mississippi.
The toll Of injured was more than
100.
\ break in the Babius river at
Canton, Mo, inundated 1890 acres
of rich farm land Ghe Fabjus
waters still threatened Quincy, III.
where a Mississippi river lerec was
dynamitcd to divert the flood
waters.
The series of twistcrs first a2-
pcared in Texas early Saturday.
struck Rcece, kans., killing one
person and injured SIX others. An
other descended on Bolivar, Mo,
injuring % and wrcckirg an entire
residential district of the Ozark
town.
Sundays storms ccntercd in south
eastern Arkansas and Mississippi.
NtlINIIlS SIlSHJlN 10 lHt Souil Oh
the Ozarks where storms killed
more than 50 a week ago, tornadoes
struck at Tillar, Ark, killing l3
persons, and continued into bolivar
county, Mississippi,
Seven persons were killed i'm the
towns Of Pahomey, Shaw and
Starkvillc, Miss, while Benoit and
Greenvillc hospitals reported nearly
two score seriously injured.
The storms followed ne definite
course, twisting and retraciug their
paths through the southwest with
in IS hours. Throughout tho storm
area, torrcntial rains added to the
heavy property damage. COMMUNE
cation systems were crippled bad.
n
The tributaries of tho Mississippi
were heating against lcyees ana
banks in Kansas. Missouri and
Illinois Coffeyvillc, Kaus.. and
Nowata, Okla, reported the Verdi
girls river was near flood stage
Municipal pumping stations were
preparing for high water cmlrgcu-
cies at the junction of the Kansas
aud Missouri rivers here.
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