A HOLOCAUST.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 911, 9 June 1903, Page 2

A HOLOCAUST.

A MIGHTY WATERSPOUT

BURSTS A DAM. AND DEVASTATES A COUNTRYSIDE.

COTTON-MILLS WRECKED, AND MANY PERSONS DROWNED.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK. June !. A cloud hurst at Spartanburg, Jarolin.i. and a dam was swept tway. The country was flooded and cotton mills wrecked. The damage is estimated at two million dollars. Every building in the town oi Lancelot. containing a thousand iulahiiants, was wrecked. Many persons were drowned. Received 12.3 b a.m., .June LONDON, June S. Reuter’s Agency slates that two hundred thousand acres of fertile farms within a radius ol 2b miles of St. Louis were flooded, only the tops oi the houses being visible. Martial law has been proclaimed in the flooded districts, and looters ordered lo he shot.

SIX HUNDRED MILES OF SEA

COAST AFFECTED BY SMOKE

MILLIONAIRES SEND 3UUO MEN TO FIGHT THE FLAMES.

TWO VILLAGES DESTROYED

THOUSANDS OF PERSONS HOMELESS.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK, June 4.

Forest, fires are still raging in the North Atlantic. States. The Washington Observer states that six hundred miles of sea coast is atfcctcil with the dense smoke, rendering navigation difficult. Mr William Rockefeller, Mr Robert Pruyn, and other millionaires have sent three thousand lire fighters to Adiromlacks, where hundreds of families are fleeing for their lives. The villages' of Sherinanford and Crystal Lake, in the State of Maine, were destroyed, and thousands ol persons rendered homeless. Received 12.32 a.m.. June !). NEW YORK, June 8. Rain checked the fires in the United Stales. It is estimated that the damage is twenty million stcrSi.v thousand people are lighting the flames in Canada, with small success. Seven towns have been destroyed, the largest being The damage is estimaeed at live' million sterling. Prayers for rain arc general.