TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS DROWNED. EIGHT HUNDRED BURNED TO DEATH. New York, June 3.
The American Calamity.
It is conjectured by some th^t 25,000 persons were drowned by the floods at Johnstown, and that 800 perished in the binning debris. Communication with Johnstown has been lestoied. The distress from flood is appalling. In the Covenmaugh Valley, (arms, mills, hamlets and towns have been swept away, leaving a vast scene of desolation. The Cambrian Ironworks at Johnstown, at which 7,000 men were employed, have been completely dtstroyed. The suddenness with svhioh the disaster oveitook the residents was something terrible. A water-DOiit broke the dam of a reservoir on Friday afternoon, and a torrent of water 40 feet deep struck Johnstown within half-ao-hour, submerging the town, only two roofs remaining above v. ate:.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 375, 8 June 1889, Page 4
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134TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS DROWNED. EIGHT HUNDRED BURNED TO DEATH. New York, June 3. The American Calamity. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 375, 8 June 1889, Page 4
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