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1 PEGPLE DROWNED & HISSING
COALMLVERS' LUCKY ESCAPE.
(llcccivod September 4, 11 a.m.) PITTSBURG, September 3. Cloudbursts through Pennsylvania drowned thirty-six people. The bodice have- been recovered. 'I lie Pennsylvania and Ohio Bivers overflowed. Thirty persons are reported missing. Houses were flooded, ;a.ud in some cases carried off bodily. The railroads are idle. The town of Cannonsburg is wider four feet of
•Water.. J* our hundred miners in Pittsburg, at the Buffalo Coal Company's mine, narrowly escaped drowning w'Jien the
mine w-.'Vi flooded. The alarm was given, i;i the nick of time. Several smaller streams have changed their course.
HEAVY DEATH ROLL
ENORMOUS DAMAGE
| (Received Last KSght 10.30 o'clock.) | NEW YORK, September 4. ; 'Die death roll from the storms in Pennsylvania numbers forty. The damage amounts to £750,000. Farmers have been ruined wliolesale in the large area which was inundated. The floods struck SalineiSViHg l .' Hundreds of the inhabitants fled, narrowly escaping .with their lives. Not a house way left standing.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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170MORE CLOUDBURSTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 5 September 1912, Page 5
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