Show DISASTERS It was another year ear of disasters and convulsions ns of nature Earthquakes I volcanic eruptions furious storms anti and devastating mg floods were numerous anti and took tool a terrible toll In lives and property property prop prop- erty destroyed The Mississippi valoy val cal hey ley oy floods that started In April April were the t worst in the history of the United States Mates n Vast t aleus areas from cen central 1 r III IIII 1111 oafs to the Gulf of ot Mexico were here i in n undated hundreds u of f persons drowned und anti hundreds of thousands r rendered tuneless homeless while the ran fan Into property Ifs losses es the hundred millions All 1 relief ru- ru lIer lief us asenci fr train m the Government go departments de- de down Secre were em P lo to S ed w. w with Secretary y hoover Boover H I OVer ln In general cl charge and the tae people of ot the country countr b contrib I uteri most lib liberally for tor their hate nate fellow citizens An imm l j result was the formulating Of ot pig plan plana for flood control for action by th Seventieth congress Of Ot other disasters the time worst were In January Se ent Seventy seven se cn child childre killed In movie ruo theater fir fire a in Mon Dion treal In February Earthquake and a killed hun hundreds reds in Yugo- Yugo YD tornadoes In southern n stet state state- and along time the Atlantic seaboard fatal to sixty In March SIxty SIxty killed In two mine explosions us In Enc Eng a land and Wales nearly 2500 perished In Japanese earthquake and tidal Udal wu wove wave e tornado In Arkansas 33 dead In April Mine explosion in West Virginia I. I killed ill cd 91 01 t In Mn May About died In storms In Middle West West- earthquake In China ruined and other cities and killed I about persons In July Flood In China killed 1000 and in Saxon Saxony earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake In Palestine took lives In ia September Storms Storms' Storms and and tidal w warn Wn ravaged west coast of ot Mexico and parts of ot China and Japan tornado In IQ St. St Louis Mo killed kilted SO and did 7 75 damage to property In Oct Octo October Octo K ber Italian steamship sank off oft Brazil Bra zil coast lives being lost In No Nu vember ember Disastrous and fatal floods In New Englund England and Algeria explosion explosion sion slon of ot gas gus storage tank In Pittsburgh killed about 40 persons In December there were furious gales ales on the Great Lakes Lales that destro destroyed much shipping and aud cost some lives U In an orphanage orphan orphan- orphanage age uge fire In Quebec about sixty chil dren circa nn and one nun perished |