DISASTERS IN AMERICA

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 30

DISASTERS IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, August 26

Disastrous floods are reported from North and South Carolina. Whole districts are inundated, and operations in the cotton mills are suspended.

Forty deaths are reported, and the damage is estimated at many millions of dollars.

August 27.

The canal running through the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia, burst its banks and flooded the city to a depth of from 6ft to 12ft.

Bridges were carried away and farms flooded. Th© damage ' is estimated at £ido,ooo.

August 28.

Owing to the bursting of the canal in Augusta some 20.000 people are homeless, many of them having to shelter and sleep in the trees. August 29. Twenty bodies have been recovered in connection with the floods at Augusta. Tlic captain of a steamer states that he saw 25 bodies — chiefly those of negroes — floating down the river,

The damage is estimated at £500,000*

The floods are now subsiding.

As the result of a* cloud-burst at Fox* com, in New Mexico, 15 people were drowned.

August 30.

The Folsom cloudburst, in the form of a wall of water Bft high, swept through the mining camp.

Twenty-three bodies so- far have beeift recovered, and the fate of eco-ree is un» certain.

August 31.

Mrs Sarah Rook, telephone operator aft Folsom, on learning of the approach of the wall of water, telephoned to 40 sub* scribers, enabling them to save them* selves and their families.

The bureau was wrecked, and her mutp* lated body was found 12 miles distant^ with the telephone receiver still fixed t<* her head!