THE WATERSPOUT.
FIFTY OPERATIVES DROWNED.
AN ENORMOUS FLOOD WAVE
2UO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM HOUSETOPS.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) , NEW YORK, .Jim? 8. Fifty operatives were drowned iu tiie .Spartanburg Hood. The Congare river, Carolina, is running thirteen feet above tire dan-ger-line, anti is sweeping seaward tnc debris from the Piedmont districts. An enormous flood-wave struck Pacolcte mills and other mills, and the towns. The Government have despatche" rations and medicine. A steamer rescued two hundred people from the housetops at Blackwalnut. Fifteen persons who were trying to strengthen a wall near Madison were drowned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 912, 10 June 1903, Page 2
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