04 Apr 1898
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1898
Page
1
Evansville dispatch reports Shawneetown Illinois levee breach floods town ten to twenty feet. Many lives feared lost as communications cut. Evansville sends two steamboats with food and blankets to aid scene.
At Shawneetown and nearby Mount Vernon Indiana reports show the flood disaster's toll rising. An initial 100 deaths grew to about 200 by nightfall as relief efforts mobilized with boats and medical aid. Wires to the stricken city failed after 4 pm, delaying communications.
Cardinal Gibbons delivers a Palm Sunday sermon urging peace honorable to Spain and the United States on the resurrection anniversary of the Prince of Peace. War Department orders regular troops in Arizona and Missouri to move east. naval officials doubt Spain’s dispatches as censors pass only selective messages.
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