June

All over the U.S., men were on the run from high wind and high water.

In eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, a tornado cut a zigzag path through heavily settled farm country and a dozen towns, killed five people, did $1,000,000 worth of damage.

At Ottumwa, la., at least seven people were killed and 16,000 made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water or gas.

Still the rains fell. Gradually, inch by boiling, brown inch, the angry Mississippi crept higher on its banks. By this week, The River had smashed eight levees, flooded about 25,000 acres. Unless the sun came out promptly, and to stay, the people of the U.S. middle border would remember June 1947 for a long, long time.

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