DISASTROUS FLOODS.
TORRENT BURSTS EMBANKMENT. THIRTY WORKMEN DROWNED. TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.
Received 10.62 p.m.. June 11. NEW YORK. June 11. A torrent, twenty-live feet deep end a hundred feel wide, hurst through Illinois Central Railway embankment, Hooding the southern half id Eastern St. Louis.
A thousand laborers, engaged ill strengthening the embankment, lied. Thirty were drowned. The damage by Hoods at St. Louis is estimated at three hundred thousand pounds, and ten thousand people have licen rendered homeless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 914, 12 June 1903, Page 2
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