DEVASTATING FLOOD.
HUNDREDS RENDERED"HOMELESS, HUGE DAM BURSTS. By Telegraph..—Press Association. —Copyright Received Friday, 1110 p.m. New York, Friday. - Reports from Cumberland and Maryland state the Pottomac river overflowed a large area and hundreds are rendered homeless, Owing to the West Virginia Pulp Paper Company's dam breaking a wall of water swept down the valley carrying off houses bodily. Warnings were telephoned along the line of flood and saved hundreds of lives, but a few even then are supposed to have been drowned. Th 9 huge : wave travelled twenty miles before rejoining the Potomac below the town of Schnell, ienreasing the height of the river by five feet. The authorities blew up several bridges to prevent wreckage choking and flooding the surrounding country.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 635, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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122DEVASTATING FLOOD. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 635, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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