Show A NEW YORK JOHNSTOWN FLOOD Tie Waters Play Havoc nu I Many Lives and Much Property Arc lost NEW YORK July 10A Johnstown special says The water which came up over this village last night subsided this morning but left scenes of desolation in every direction The water rose fifteen feet and overflowed everything it h fallen fal-len eight feet Ten people are reported i missing th ° bodies of four have been recovered re-covered all art Johnstown people The drowned and missing people were among a crowd of thirty to fifty people who stood on the stone bridge at Perry street watching I watch-ing the rising water regardless of the danger until the bridge gave way The bridge was twenty feet high and fifteen or I twenty feet wide Most of those thrown into the water were saved The sudden rise of Cayadutta creek is supposed to be the effect of a cloud burst I Eight or nine bridces were swept away Two tanneries and the dams of the electric light plant and many buildings are damaged dam-aged The only wire out of town is a telephone tele-phone one over which this message is sent |