CLOUDBURSTS IN AMERICA.
(THIRTY-SIX PEOPLE DROWNED.. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ■.?■.- , ■;P'*.? s '?ufßi September 3. Cloudbursts' in different parts of Pennr sylvania 'resulted in the ' drowning of thirty-six people. . The bodies have, been recovered. ' i ' Tho Pennsylvania and Ohio Rivers overflowed. Thirty persons are reported missing. Houses wero flooded, and in some esses carried off bodily. The railroads are idle.' The town of Cannonsburg is under four feet of water. . Four hundreij miners in Pittsburg, at tho Buffalo Coal Company's mine, narrowly escaped drowning when the mine was flooded.''The alarm was given in the nick of time. Several smaller streams have changed their course. FARMERS RUINED WHOLESALE, (Rec. September 4, 10.15 p.m.) New York, September 4. The death roll consequent ;on the ftorms in Pennsylvania is forty. , The damage amounts to .£730,000. Farmers have been ruined wholesale, and a large area inundated. The floods struck Salinesville, and hundreds of the inhabitants fled, narrowly escaping with thejr lives,., Not a house is' left standing,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1537, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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162CLOUDBURSTS IN AMERICA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1537, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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