THE DISASTER IN VIRGINIA.
♦ THE OAU3K OF THE OOLLAP3B. PBB PRESS ABSOOIATieN. Received 25, 9 a.m. Nkw York, June 24. A cloud burst followed by thirty hours rain caused tho collap e of the dam at Pocahontas. Tfa.9 damage is estimated at two totbte* million dollars. Received 26. 0.32 a.m. New York, Jw>e 25. The Pocahontas dam destroyed fourteen amvl towns, thirty vilages, and three hundred mile* of railway. Toe Governor of Vifgir-ia estimates tint one thousind lives w re lo*t.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 129, 26 June 1901, Page 3
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81THE DISASTER IN VIRGINIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 129, 26 June 1901, Page 3
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