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...Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards (8,000 cars move there daily) was under water. Production was halted at a huge caterpillar tractor works in Peoria...
...Refugees huddled in emergency stations set up by the Red Cross or other relief organizations all over the Midwest. Some 30,000 families (100,000 people) were homeless at week's end, the Red Cross estimated; 9,663 houses had been destroyed or damaged. The entire population of Dupo-2,073-had to be evacuated by Coast Guardsmen. Women, children and aged were taken from Beardstown...
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