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Show HEW FLOODS HIT ALASKANTOVIIS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May it UT -Freeh Noort. in ih Tb.a river kaaia mM threugh Nimm u4 Fort Yukon tortay and me rm-" rm-" from UMlr homes and plaeea f buslnees. Several feet af water flowed through Fort Tukoa, a trading poet 1M milaa aortheael ml bar at lha Junction af tha Tukoa end Porcupine Porcu-pine rivers. It Kaa a law hundred pereaaaoa Tha residential dlatiirt ( Nan ana. 0 mitaa southwest at here, lay deep tn tha overflow of tha Taaana river, which revered tha lower part af tha town with 14 faat af araiar at tha greet. Walar ran thraufk tha buai-beee buai-beee section and railroad yards. Xenanas population to taaa thaa Into. titlmatee af property damage re unavailable at either place Radiophone raporta from Fort Tukoa aad Nanana mentioned ae fatalities. Walar swept Inla Fort Tykoa Saturday niht aa lha Tukoa river lea brake. Tha flood carried a war aaa rabtn. loeej. equipment and fecieee aad aant moat af Lka popa-baton popa-baton to boat, bifhar grouad or uiiwngs af mora than ana otory. Tha Nanana Hood followad cloaary tha ana which apraad through three-fourths af Falrbanka laat waak. aa lha are-gorged Tanana and Chana rtvara la ft their banka. Tha Takaa waa ra port ad ta ba falling at Fort Yukon and tha Ta-bona Ta-bona at Nanana. At Falrbanka dan-gar dan-gar appaarad paat aa tha Chana crawlad within Ha banka and rafa-aa rafa-aa rat urnad ta tbair aoggy bomaa. |