BURSTING OF A DAM.
HUGE WALL OF WATER. SLIGHT LOSS OF LIFE, fL? Eueothig Tei/bguaphlUniteu Punas Association.] New York, January 1(3. Reports from Cumberland, State of Maryland, state that the Potomac river overflowed over a large area. Hundreds are homeless. Owing to the West Virginia Pulppaper 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 or lives. A few are. supposed to have been drowned. The lingo wave travelled for 20 ntdes before rejoining the Potomac ot low the town of Schnel], increasing the height of the river by five feet. The authorities blew up several bridges to prevent the wreckage choking and flooding the surrounding country.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 4
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124BURSTING OF A DAM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 4
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