New York, Sept. 23.
Disease and famine stalked the devastated areas of lower New England today, threatening thousands of refugees made homeless by floodwaters which raged uncontrollably.
Rampaging rivers were believed vader control in Massachusetts but the flood emergency still gripped Hartford and eight New Jersey towns, The Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, brimming at flood crest, rolled into Springfield. cracking the 0.59 006,000 North End Dyke, National Guardsmen removed 3,500 lowlanders from the threatened area while the [Army and WPA, assisted by volunteers labored to prevent the leaking wall from collapsing. n
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