DISASTER IN VIRGINIA.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13480, 27 July 1912, Page 5

DISASTER IN VIRGINIA.

BURST OF A DAM

A TOWN FLOODED

TIMELY WARNING OF THE INHAB-

ITANTS

Washington, July 25. A dramatic story is told of a storm at Dunbar, a West Virginian town. A clork working in the quarries two miles distant was warned by telephone that a great flood was coming, tho dam containing the town's water supply having burst. The clerk telephoned to n friend in Dunbar to warn everybody, and tho latter rushed through tho streets calling on tho residents to flee for their lives.

Instantly the people, numbering several thousands, fled to the hills, escaping in the nick of time. The water submerged the streets, and did much damage to buildings, but no lives were lost.

The railway bridge was carried off and the telephone is clown.

If the warning had not been given it is certain that hundreds would have

perished