AMERICAN CLOUDBURST
TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT.
VILLAGE WIPED OUT.
HOUSES UNDER WATER.
SEVERAL PEOPLE DROWNED.
By Telegraph— Association Copyright. Losdon, September 14. A cloudburst wrought enormous havoc in and around Goldfield (Nevada) to-day.
All communication with the village of Toponah has been entirely cut off, and it is reported that the whole village has been wiped out.
At Goldfield five people were drowned, and scores of residences were partly submerged by the raging torrents which swept down the valleys.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15407, 16 September 1913, Page 7
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