Record breaking
floods grow graver
at Tampico
TAlMiPICO, Mexico UP) Tam
pico’s record breaking floods
grew graver today as the wat
ers crept over the remaining
dry areas of the city at the rate
of two inches an hour.
Hurricane Janet’s rains have
added to the floods from two
previous hurricanes last mon
th. The water rose a foot and
a half between midnight and
mid-morning.
Mexico’s death itoll in the
wtake of Janet now is 209. More
than 1,000 (persons were injur
ed and at least 100,000 home
less. Greatest number of deaths
was on the Yuicatan peninsula,
where 200 lost their lives and
four town were leveled.
Huge dolphin takes
some subduing
TOKUiSKIMA, Japan (/P)
A huge 1,600 pound dolphin ^
•knocked out one man and'
roughed up 20 more 'before it
finally was clubbed to death
dn a bloody 30 minute fight to-'
■diay.
Fishermen discovered thej
ponderous sea mammal, more!
| than 15 feet from head to tail j
threshing about in shallow;
water behind a sand bar.
Two waded in and tried to
lasso it. The dolphin knocked
lone cold with a massive wal
j lop of its tail and partially;
1 stunned the second.
Eighteen other fishermen
jumped into the fray. The
giant fish knocked them about
in the surf for 30 minutes be- :
fore it was killed.
WORLD SERIES
Five Game Totals
Paid attendance . 235,823
Net Receipts .. $1,518,874.81
Pl'ayers Share ((first four games
only) — $654,843.59.
Weather
tern Kanas were hard hit by
the rain. Coffeville and Inde
pendence both reported more
than 4M> inches.
Heavy rains, meanwhile,
forced the evacuation of more
than 75 persons from lowlands
in the southern section of Ok
lahoma City last night. The
deluge pushed the North Ca
nadian River two feet above
flood stage, prompting civil
authorities and Red Cross units
to lend evacuation assistance.
Rains swept over central
western and northern Oklaho
ma, spilling wattrs over creek
beds and forcing the close of
four state roads. Kingfisher re
gestered the state’s heaviest
rainfall, almost (five inches.
Early morning falls in the
southwest rain belt showed ac
cumulations of more, than half
an inch at Oklahoma City, Aib
ilene, Texas, and Richston, S.
D. Hobart, Okla, measured the
most — .81 inches.
General rains of the past sev
tral days in the Garolinas and
sections of the southeast ended
today except for scattered
traces.
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