Water, Wind
Last week residents of Memphis, Term., saw somebody's house bobbing down the Mississippi, headed toward the Gulf of Mexico. Soon other houses followed, plus bodies of drowned cattle, plus debris of every description. For the Mississippi, rain-swollen, high-rising, was flood from Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf of Mexico. Many a levee "went out," thousands of lowland acres turned into lakes, 24,000 refugees appealed to the Red Cross for aid, eleven lives were lost.
Devastated areas. Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas were the worst flood sufferers. In the streets of...