A Dam Bursts
| - A DKVASTATINU WAVE. ) HOUSES SWJEI'T AWAY DOOILY. LVJHTJ-y WARNED BY TJttKPUQXE By CaMe—Press Association—Copyright Received 17, 1.5 a.m. New York, January 10.
lleports from Cumberland, State ol Maryland, state that the Potomac river overflowed over a largo area. Hundreds are homeless.
Owing to the West Virginia Pulppaper Company's dam breaking, a wall of water swept down the valley, carrying off houses "bodily.
Warnings were telephoned along the line of ilood and saved hundreds of lives'. A few are supposed to have been drowned.
The huge wave travelled for 20 miles beforo rejoining the Potomac below the town of Schnell, increasing the height of the river by five feet. The authorities blew up several bridges to prevent the wreckage choking and flooding the surrounding country.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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127A Dam Bursts Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 5
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