The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-15
5000 DRIVEN FROM
MISSISSIPPI HOMES
BY FLOOD TORRENTS
10 Members Of One Family Are
Killed During Tornado in
Tennessee
TWO DEAD ON WEST COAST
North Dakota Enjoys Bracins
Winter Weather With Mer.
curry Rise in Sight

With 10 dead from a Tennessee
tornado. 5000 persons driven from
their homes by floods in Mississippi
and one Of the heaviest SHOWS on rec
ord in California, the weather man
provided q somber picture FRIDAY.
Two weather deaths were reported
on the west coast.
There were tightening touches.
In the lower middle west and east
u was still springtime swhile North
Dakota was enjoying bracing winter
Weatner with q prospect that it would
De lair and warmer Saturday. Most
OF the highways in the northwestern
and western parts Of the state. closed
BY q heavy storm Wednesday ao.ir
were open to traffic.
wyoming. Montana and New Mex
!co We're cold and clear, while snow
nlocked highways in southern Idaho.
nevada had temperatures that dipped
down to minus IS.
Canada Is Contradiction
canada was contradiction Of SEA-.
sons, with Sub-zero cold in the west.
ern provinces and temperatures In the
GUS IN Ontario and even in the mari
time provinces.
Near Ottawa there were flood nm.
terS, with an ice jam threatening de-.
structlon Of dam and a bridoe
across the Quyon river. Streets AZ
tauyon were flooded, and nearby farn
lands inundated.
Richmond, Va, never before saw q
January as hot as THURSDAYS "a. ana
1871. ' ''1'Se
New Englands Ice and snow v.s
melting under sun that brought re-
ports of robins and fishing tackle ana
lawns yellowed by dandelions.
Az OWaSco Lake, near Auburn. N.
y. the kids went swimming. Ftaher-
men were pulling foolish fish fron,
Lake Chautauqua - nice calico bass
that usually run In May. A reeula-
ton nine-inning baseball Rarne WA
played at Uniontown. Pa, under q
temperature Of 70.
Fridays weather predictions vere
discouraging for the casts dandelions.
swlmmln' holes and calico bass. In
parts OF the middle west the promise
was much colder weather. Much
OF the middle Atlantic territory looked
Tor rain and colder. For Pennsylvania
and West Virginia there was likeU-
mood spring would continue her fling.
West Coast Threatened
concerning the far west, the wealth.
er bureau remarked:
"A disturbance OF considerable In.
tens1ty Is approaching the Pacific
coast, and another Is conferred over
southern Alaska"
Near Lex. Tenn, 10 members of
the F. W. Rice family were killed and
three others injured when q tornado
whipped through to farming COM
munitieS. Little hope was held for
the recovery OF Lucille Rice, 18th
member Of the family, while lie and
May Ann Rice were not so SERIOUSLY
hurt. AT least 10 or IL buildings in
or near the Lex and Eaton commune
!tleS were destroyed. Communication
lines were down and the full extent
OF the disaster could not be learned
Immediately.
Members Of the Rice family died
when their house was blown apart.
One child was blown SO far his body
was not found for several hours.
Down In Mississippi, break In the
levee along the flooded Tallahatchie
river let a wall Of water into the
T1ppo basin and forced a hasty re-
treat by hundreds Of families. w. r.
Gray, levee Commissioners, estimated
that the number of persons to be re-
moved was 5000 and every vehicle
available was commandments to as
sist In the work.
Boatmen Are Busy
Boatmen brought many refugees
to Glendore, which still Is partly
under water and menaced By the
flood. The break on the opposite side
OF the river, however, was expected
to ease the strain here. More than
so other villages and towns In the
district were fighting to keep back
the flood while $1,000 acres were in
undated In eight western Tennessee
counties.
: Reports from San Francisco said
snow in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains was the deepest on record. The
same storm which BROUGHT 4 new
downfall damaged communication
lines and hampered shipping. The
two deaths attributed to the weather
occurred IN traffic accidents.
In several California fruit-growing
sections temperatures were below
freezing.