NOME IN RUINS.
FIVE HUNDRED HOMELESS. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCI 4.TION—COPYEIGHT (Received Oct. 8, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 7. The rich sand of the gold dredging .area around Nome, Alaska 3 has beer overwhelmed. The waves overflowec -the whole of the 'water front, and th< city is. in ruins. The fire is still burnin"1. People have suffered great hardships, and steamers " are engaged ir taking off the victims. The electric power plant is wrecked. and the citizens endeavored throughout the night to save their belongings by the light of the burning houses. : A relief committee is aiding the sufferers. Five hundred people arc homeless, and there have been foui deaths. .
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 October 1913, Page 8
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110NOME IN RUINS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 October 1913, Page 8
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