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Western floods sweep Kansas and Missouri towns
A vast flood across twenty five hundred square miles of Kansas and Missouri devastates homes and farms, traces of fire, hunger, and disease follow. In Topeka and North Topeka thousands homeless with measles and scarlet fever, while rescue crews save survivors amid a sea of water and wreckage.
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E L Cowdry