A Story of a Storm

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5965, 31 July 1912, Page 1

A Story of a Storm

WARNED BY. TELEPHONE. THOUISAINDS ELEE TO THE KILLS IN THE NICK UE TIME. ! VANCOUVETi, July 25. A dramatic story is told of a storm in the West, Virginia town ot Dunbar. A clerk who was working in the quarries, two miles distulbt, was warned % telephone that a great Hood was coming down, the water supply having burst. Tho clerk telephoned a iriend iu Dunbar to warn everybody, and the latter rushed through the street Bailing on the residents to ileo for their iivgs. Instantly the people, numbering several thousand, lied to tho hills, escaping in the nick of time. The water submerged the streets, and did much damage to the buildings, but no, lives were lost. The railway bridge was carried off, and the telephones are down. Hud the warning not been given hundreds must have r . perished.