AN AMERICAN DISASTER.
Fearful Damage by Burning \ Oil: New York, June 7. The estimated damage at Titusville amounts to a million and a half dollars, while each of the adjacent counties suiters to the extent of a million', ■'-.:
Many, persons are mifising, Num-bers'are-known .to have perished through the burning oil floating on the flood' Waters. : -
.The towns of Embonton, Corry, and Meadville also.suffered badly by the disaster. ' !
Washinoion, June 1
The' storm water carried the ing petroleum.from Ojl City for U miles, and every bridge in its tract was burned, besides which 15 village: were destroyed, .: ' Appalling soeneswore witnessed
and i;reat distress has been occasioned, Two hundicd and ninety people were killed when : the.'refineries were wrecked,.... ■-. •■.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4134, 9 June 1892, Page 2
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116AN AMERICAN DISASTER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4134, 9 June 1892, Page 2
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