Italy Quake Death Toll Rises Amid Widespread Destruction
Naples and southern Italy endured a powerful quake on Wednesday with thousands displaced and a rising death toll. Unofficial tallies place the dead near 3660 and injured about 1432 as towns such as Melfi and Villanova report heavy losses.
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Lightning Strikes Plane Injuring Four Over Long Island Sound
A pontoon monoplane traveling from Portland to New York was struck by lightning while landing in a storm over Long Island Sound near Glen Cove. Pilot Fred Relph, passengers John Ottley and Bromley Stone, both of Long Island, and an unnamed mechanic were hurt and admitted to a local hospital.
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India flood losses exceed a million dollars
Karachi reports flood damage in upper Sind after six inches of rain in 24 hours. Indus River and tributaries overflow, embankments fail, and towns Larkhana Sikapur Khanpur submerge. Refugees move toward Karachi as the Larkhana railway is washed out and the Begari Canal breaches.
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Nara
Jacobabad
Begari
Whitby Flood Paralyzes East Coast City Amid Heavy Rain
Whitby and surrounding areas in Yorkshire faced severe flooding from four days of continual rain. The Esk river surged as homes, boats, and debris filled the streets while Sleights and Stokesley suffered isolation due to washed-out bridges and roadways. Rescue efforts paused by tonight’s downpour as workers tried to improvise a pontoon bridge. Continued rain worsened conditions, cutting off villages and hamlets from relief and communication.
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Yorkshire
England
Esk
Stokesley
Adobe Houses Crumble In Pena Blanca Flooding
In Pena Blanca New Mexico heavy rains caused a cloudburst that collapsed thirty to forty adobe houses leaving about 150 homeless. Rio Grande overflowed, six hundred acres of farmland inundated, and mobility by auto limited. Alfred Montoya, a former county commissioner, reported the conditions after reaching town by horseback. A food shortage was noted in the district.
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G O P Convention Gunmen to Die in Gallows Friday
Kansas City July 24 Three gunmen who stormed a republican national convention crowd on June 14 1928 to rob Home Trust Company face death on the gallows Friday morning Governor Henry Caulifield said he would not stay the triple execution for the slaying of Hap Smith who resisted the attackers The condemned are Tony Mangiaracina Carl Nasello and John Messino guards with machine guns and floodlights gird the county jail amid last minute fears of an attempted rescue.
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Home Trust Company
Henry S. Caulifield
James H. ‘Happy” Smith
Tony
Managiaracina
Carl Nasello
John Messino
Twister Terrors Through Italy After Earthquake
Rome reports a massive quake in southern Italy with thousands dead. A hurricane in northeastern Italy near Treviso near Venice hit Barco di Sesegana Bervesa Selva and Volpago tearing down buildings and trapping victims under ruins. Authorities rushed responders and first aid to both disaster zones as nightfall halted precise tallies.
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Treviso
Venice
Barco di Sesegana
Bervesa
Selva
Volpago
Fierce Fighting Along Sunghai Railway Reported
Shanghai correspondent for Kuomin News Agency says fierce clashes along the Sunghai railway left more than 5000 rebels killed or wounded as the sixth army repelled an assault by two insurgent divisions.
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New York
Shanghai
Kuomin News Agency
Sunghai Railway
Sixth Army
Boleleworm Damage in East Texas Reported in July
Reports of boll weevil injury in East Texas grow, with high impact in Trinity River counties. Flea hoppers persist despite heat and drought, while leaf worm control increases in Hays and Burleson counties. The year shows widespread weevil presence across eastern counties.
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Trinity River
Hays
Burleson
Lightning kills farmer at work near Flatonia
George Beale aged 49 was struck and killed by lightning while stacking feed on his farm north of Flatonia Texas. A colored helper was injured by the blast and a dog near the wagon also died. Beale leaves a wife and seven children. Funeral held Wednesday at Elm Grove Cemetery with Rev. G B McLean officiating.
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Here
George Beale
Elm Grove Cemetery
G. B. McLean
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