| Show HUNDREDS BROWN wi HEN BURSTS TOWN LOCATED IN VALLEY BE TWEEN TWO HIGH HULS HILLS AT MERCY OP OF FLOOD greet great wall of water which swept everything in front of it fol fat lowed by fire which roasted reacted victims pinned underneath wreckage austin pa nearl earl 7 00 men women and children moie than a fourth vt of the total population bere rere ei dro drowned ned and s numbers ure injured aben abe n the hammot i dam of the baless pulp and paper compan burst with a doai surpassing s ing th tb it of niagara and poured Us its more mare than half balf a million gallons of vatar bater down upon this thi toun lo 10 n lie late saturday after noon located in 1 i alli beti NeEn two tibb bagh hills that east cat ind aest tor for miles kustin dublin haq as at the merc of the flood nelt ei t all of the ana aia them hani up at the alic mouth of i a till ulin east of AD f toan there as in austin fire quick added its leiron ru asting roH Sling alive alite the mckim tho ho ren rund in the debris in the lalley beo austin aultin are arthe villages til lages of Los lello and hai ton after lading the larger to towns ans in ruins the flood swept on to thern hem caught in the roa of 0 the rushing waters they too succumbed but varned named by a modern paul revere who bo dashed ahead ol of the flood oler road in a motor car the la in had bad time to epe e aspe blime for or the disaster in 15 being placed upon th the earlee pulp and nd raper coro friny which owned the am the tb dim dam Aliet hint from hill blu to kill and imprisoning I 1 retime run ron lust just before ll it reach Sin alms boning creek vas aa feet long lone and d M it high it 1 l was completed on dai itoi in macly xa cly two months it began to leak and the inhabitants of austin fearing euch ft a flood as ag swept aiso the jovn to n sat fled to the hill bills repairs wore wr made to the dam at that thai time but bet deficit in th ahl hla made lade possible the disaster not dot the first alarm or of the dam break in ani it was waa given by a bell telephone gneme n who aho saw the advance of the thaw ater from the e top of a 2 pole lie ile tore open a long distance hire ire and notified not lifted gal gliton c ton with his tt set ept and then tied fled to the hills barely barel es eg caping with anith his life dearly ill the men a ere dt work at work and the women aomen tad ind ahll hil dren were vere it at horne home alone they 1 had bad heard the ir ning sarit out b the te telephone lep bonc gir irl it at least borne of the people sal thi th fire cre bell rang and thy tacy thought it was a 0 of dished dashed to ahn th busi nesb section and uric ric caught in tile the atar those not alro ilk d were ere crusted crusby in tho cl nun illin ling 1 and others were caught in the flames little children Child rii planny in bald it dt biml lcarl caught up hi tile the ati r and tossed alotis il on the hood liko like playthings things cattle and borscs N were ere swept oft off and iua ceu the sidewalks weri were torn up and unar ind iloe it all were acre the of 0 hp ho huo bun deeds of people v ho bo could not lot s |
