DISASTROUS CLOUDBURSTS
A STATE OVERWHELMED. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, September 3. As the result of cloudbursts throughout Pennsylvania, thirty-six people nave been drowned. The Pennsylvania and Ohio rivers overflowed and thirty other persons arc missing. Houses were flooded, and, in some cases, carried ofT bodily. The railroads are idle and the town of Cannonsburg is under four feet of water. Four hundred miners, in the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company's mine, narrowly escaped drowning when the mine was flooded. The alarm was given in the nick of time. Several of the smaller streams have changed their courses. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. FARMERS RUINED WHOLESALE. Received 4, 10.30 p.m. New York, September 4. The death roll in connection with the storms in Pennsylvania is forty. The damage is estimated at about three-quar-ters of a million sterling. Farmers have been ruined wholesale. A large area is inundated. The flood struck Salincsville. Hundreds of the inhabitants fled, narrowly escaping with their lives. Not a house was left standing.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 93, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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172DISASTROUS CLOUDBURSTS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 93, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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