The American Calamity. TROOPS DESPATCHED. THOUSANDS HOMELESS. New York, June 4.
The site on which the town of Johnstown stood bears the appearance of a lake, with water 40 feet deep. A laige body of military has been despatched to the scone of the disaster to protect the wounded, A fund in aid of the sufferers has been opened. The flood is subsiding. Several thousand people have be n rendered homeless, and it is feared that pestilence may break out. The Chesapeake and Ohio canals, and twenty miles of the Coburn-Loivisbury railway, have been completely destroyed by the recent floods.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 375, 8 June 1889, Page 5
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100The American Calamity. TROOPS DESPATCHED. THOUSANDS HOMELESS. New York, June 4. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 375, 8 June 1889, Page 5
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