THE GREAT DISASTER IN PENNSYLVANIA.
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 9 p.m., Juno 3rd.) Neav York, June 0. It ia conjectured by some that 25,000 persona were drowned by the flood at Johnstown, and that 800 polished in the burning debris. (Received 11.30 p.m., Juno 3rd.) Communication with Johnstown has boon restored. The distress from the flood is appalling, in Conemaugh Valley farms, mills, hamlets, and towns being a. vast scene of desolation. Thousands of people have been swept away. The Cambria ironworks at Johnstown, at which seven thousand men were employed have been completely destroyed. The suddenness with which the disaster overtook the residents was something terrible. A waterspout broke the dam of the reservoir on Friday afternoon and a torrent of water forty feet deep struck Johnstown within half au hour, submerging the town. Only two roofs remained above water.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5024, 4 June 1889, Page 2
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