BURSTING OF A DAM.
New Yobe, June 24.
The bursting of a cloud, followed by thirty hours' rain, caused the collapse of tha dani at Po.ahohtass it is estimated that the damage amounts to from two to- three million dollars (£400,000 to £500,000)
June 25,
The bursting of the dam at Pocahontas destroyed fourteen small, towns, thirty villages, and three hundred miles of railway. The Governor of Virginia, estimates that a thousand lives have been lost;
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Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10138, 28 June 1901, Page 2
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