CLOUDBURSTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 7

CLOUDBURSTS.

A TOWN UNDER WATER

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE

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(Received Sep. 4, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sep. 3. As the result of cloudbursts th roughonf, Pennsylvania 36 people were drowned Their bodies have been recovered. The Pennsylvania and Ohio rivers overflowed, and 30 other persons are missing. Houses were flooded and in some cases carried off bodily. The railroads are idle, and the town olr Cannonsburg is under 4ft. of water. Four hundred miners in the Pittsburgh 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.