Show WATER RUSHED DOWN THE HILL Bursting of Two Large Tanks I Causes Disaster at Park Parkersburg Parkersburg Parkersburg W Va Parkersburg W v Va March 19 Two per were killed three others probably probably ably abl fatally fatall and many man more slightly hurt and ten or more houses complete completely ly wrecked and forty more badly dam damaged damaged aged when two large water tanks sup supplying supplying plying the city with water burst early e this thin morning The Dead Mr and Mrs Walter Valter Waggle Seriously Injured Mrs John ohn Maloney Malone both legs lebs broken brolien hurt internally probably will die Mrs Kate invalid badly bruised and shocked may die Clara Jones ones colored hurt Internally probably will die Wild Wild Rush of Water The immense stream of released wa water water water ter rushed down Prospect hill hili sweep ing everything before IL it Houses were swept into the street and the residents were knocked from their beds One whole family was carried down a street seventy yards their house being torn almost to pieces yet all escaped ex except except except one girl who suffered a broke broken collarbone The two tanks contained the entire city supply of water and a famine Is Js Isnow isnow now imminent The Thc damage will amount to between and St Johns Lutheran church was almost completely demolished but through Its sacrifice many man lives were spared and much more damage prevented as It was directly in the path of oC the water tater The breaking of the tanks is believed to have been caused by b some miscreant |