Chicago Expedition Finds Flood Proof at Kish

Following the announcement made by Professor C. Leonard Woolley that excavations at Ur confirmed the Bible story of the Flood, a cablegram was received here from the Field Museum-Oxford University expedition that excavations at the remains of the ancient Sumerian City of Kish, in Mesopotamia, revealed evidence of the Flood as told in Genesis and another flood 600 years before. Professor Stephen Langdon, head of the expedition, declared that both of these floods virtually wiped out Kish, but the people came back again, rebuilt their homes and developed in the city what is believed to be the world’s earliest civilization.

The Babylonian and Hebrew accounts of the Deluge are fully confirmed by the expedition’s findings. Evidence of floods is found at depths of forty-five and fifty-five feet respectively, below the surface of the great mound in which Kish was buried.

The tower stratum has a thickness of eighteen inches. From traces of the water damage. from tablets found and from the depths of the deposit, Prof Langdon estimates that this first flood took place about 4,000 years before the Christian era. The people rebuilt Kish, only to have it devastated by another flood six hundred years later. This latter one is declared to be the Flood for which Noah built the Ark.

Funeral services for the late Mrs. Leah Buttenwieser, who died in New York City Monday at the age of 87, were held yesterday. Mrs. Buttenwieser, widow of Laenunlein Buttenwieser, was known for her philanthropic contributions. She endowed the West Side Branch of the Y. M. H. A. in memory of her husband.