New York, Sept. 24 The death roll {rom the hurricane lon the East Coast now totals nearly [6c0, while 60,000 people are homeless. Damage is estimated of £40,000,000.
In Connecticut, the hurricane is reported 10 have brought what is described as the greatest catastrophe in the State's history. At Hartford, Connecticut. America's "Insurance ]Capital," 1,800 persons feverishly erected' sand-bag barricades to stem the Connecticut River, rapidly rising Jas a result of floods.
Bodies were still being washed up Jalong the stricken shore line, and survivors were rescued from the roof-tops of houses which floated out fo sea on the outgoing tide. Roads leading {0 the refined areas were littered with household goods, and Battered motor cars.
Many communities in New England Ihave not had their communications restored after telephone wires had been swept away. People in Central Massachusetts sent messages of thelt plight by carrier pigeons.
The storm is continuing its way northwards, and was last reported to have reached the vicinity of the Labrador Peninsula.—Reuter, Disease and Famine Spread New York. Sept. 23.
Disease and famine stalked the devastated areas of lower' New Eng. tand today, threatening thousands of Tefugees. made homelyes by. food: Waters which raged uncontrollably.
Rampaging. rivers were. believed sadercontl in ataachwet bat Marttord and eight New Jersey towns.
The Connecticut and Merrimac vers, brimming at flood crest, rolled Into Springheld. cracking the USS2- 00000 North End. Dyke. National Guardsmen removed 9800 lowlanders from the threatened area while the lanny and WA, assisted by volunteers labored to prevent the leaking wall from collapsing United Press Weather Improves New York, Sept. 25.
With an improvement in the weather, the flooded rivers are subsiding, and reconstruction work in the afflict:
areas in the North Atlantic States now being tackled.
Owing to the numbers of people who are missing, the final death roll is still a matter of conjecture, but will probably exceed 600.
The most pressing problem at the moment is the housing and feeding of 12,000 distressed families, and the prevention of an outbreak of disease. The highways in many areas are impassable, communications have been Interrupted, and villages are isolated.
The inhabitants of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, breathed a sigh of let when the roaring Connecticut River reached its highest point with-fut breaking the barricaded banks. Nevertheless, one tenth of the city [still flooded—Reuter.
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