5,000 Square Miles Flooded

Series

Series Name

Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.

1393

Super Issue No.

27/34

Date Released

28 Apr 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 11,000 Pigeons
2. 2Is Pillion Riding Safe?
3. 3Latest Pictures from Shanghai
4. 4The Cup of Joy
5. 5Another Trans-Atlantic Plane Crash
6. 65,000 Square Miles Flooded
7. 7The Royal Empire Tour
8. 8Zeebrugge Day
9. 9Anzac Day at Sheffield
10. *Irish Thousand Guineas at the Curragh

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 9

Summary

When swollen Mississippi bursts its banks, hundreds were drowned and over 100,000 rendered homeless.

Keywords

Weather; Accidents and disasters

Locations

United States of America

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Web

https://www.britishpathe.com/

Phone

0207 665 8340

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Notes

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