THE POCAHONTAS DISASTER.
IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE. A THOUSAND LIVES LOST. TOWNS AND VILLAGES DESTROYED. " United Press Association—By Eleotrla, Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Juno 24. A cloud-burst, followed by thirty hours of rain, caused the coUapse of -the dam at Pocahontas. It is estimated that damage to the extent of from two miUion to three million dollars was caused. NEW YORK, June 25. The bursting of the Pocahontas dam ‘destroyed fourteen small towns, thirty villages and three hundred miles of railway. The Governor of Virginia estimates that a thousand lives were lost.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12537, 26 June 1901, Page 5
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