DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS.
100,000 OUT OF WOBK.
gEAVT I-OSS AT PITTSBURG. KEW YORK, March 15.
• 'A storm of unprecedented violence has Juried in the States of Ohio, Virginia. and Kentucky- Tne rainfall was very learr and tbe rivers rose rapidly and flooded all the adjacent low-lying lands. 1 It Pittsburg all the large manufac- | taies on the river front are closed and 1 iismeM generally is paralysed. It is j gtinatea that 100,000 workers have been I itanni idle by the flooding of the facI faries. The damage is estimated at a I million dollars. 7jj fi josses in the three States are very 1 and much suffering has been I ansed among people whose homes axe j unto water. It is known that 14 people te been drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 65, 16 March 1907, Page 5
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