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Show ICEBERGS DESTROY CABINS Phenomenon of Nature Swells River Ten Feet in Four Hours, Miners' i Homes Being Swept Away. Cordova, Alaska. A disastrous flood, caused by the loosening of the waters of an internal lake in. Bering glacier, swept the Bering river valley Thursday, devastating a large section of the country southwest of the great Ice field. Many miners' cabins were swept away and grave fears are entertained enter-tained for the lives of the occupants. Icebergs of gigantic size were torn loose from the glacier and dumped into the river. Swept before the huge rush of waters which caused the Bering Be-ring river to rise ten feet in four hours, the great masses of ice carried everything every-thing before them. Cabins near the river floated out in the water and were then ground to pieces by the ice,' The roar of the flood and the grinding grind-ing and crashing of the icebergs could be heard six miles away. Relief parties t have been sent from Katalla to take aid to the stricken miners to ascertain if there has been much loss of life. |