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Show TOWN IS WIPED ENTIRELY OFF MAP Nome. Alaska. Get 10. The storm that devastated Nome wiped the town of Solomon entirely off the map Not a building of any sort in the settlement settle-ment which had a population of oOO remained standing after the gale. It is reported all tho inhabitants escaped es-caped with their lives when the town was blown away. The town of Solomon stood on Norton Sound, forty miles east of Nome at the mouth of the Solomon river. It was the coast terminus o' tl) Council City and Solomon river railway and a supply point for the Soiomon river and C8SB de Paga mining districts. Reports state that equipment of a number of dredging concerns located , there were lost In the gale. I |