FLOODS IN AMERICA.
A MIGHTY TOBRBST. GREAT DAM4GB AND LOSS OF LIFE. FBR PRESS AB9OOIATIOS. Reoeired 11,11.7 pm. New Yoek, June 11. A torrent 25 feat daep and 100 feel wide buret through the Illinois Central Railway embankment, flooding the sou tarn half of eastern St. Iru-'e, where 1000 labourers were engaged io strengthening the cmbankmint. The men fled, but 30 were drowned, The damage by the floods tA St, Louis is es ; m»ted at £300,000, and 10,000 person) hive beon rendered homeless.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 2
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83FLOODS IN AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 139, 12 June 1903, Page 2
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