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Show DEATH TOLL OF BIG CLOUDBURST Twenty-eight Dead and Ten Missing Is Revised List From Blair Creek. Mlddlesboro;Ky.. Aug.4 --;A revised list of dead reported from Blair a crock in the Barren creek region of northern Tennessee, shows that the cloudburst which visited he little sparsely populated country Wednes day night claimed a total of 28 dead Ton others aro reported missing ai-though ai-though it has not established whether they wero in the district when the waters wa-ters engulfed It - . It develops that ten members in each of two families each succumbed to tho rush of the water that carried away their homes. Reports this morning say that Bush Ferguson, his wife and eight children and Porter Walker, his wife and eight children all are dead. The property damage, according to those familiar with the country, will not go higher than $150,000 and this includes the washing out of the two trestles on the Southern railroad between be-tween Mlddlesboro and Knoxvllle. |