THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Special to Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m., June 10th.) New York, June 9. The latest return of the loss of life by the Johnstown catastrophe is 37,000. This is based on the fact that 13,000 survivers have registered their names while the estimated population of the district affected (in the Connemaugh Valley) is 50,000, It is feared all the rest have lost their lives.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5030, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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70THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 5030, 11 June 1889, Page 2
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