Austin Flood other towns ingulfed

[jeff of pa]

NEARLY 1,000 DEAD IN AUSTIN, PA., DEVASTATED BY FLOOD AND FIRE; Big Cement Dam Bursts and Sends Torrent Up-on Unsuspecting Town

October 1, 1911, Sunday

COUDERSPORT, Penn., Sept. 30. -- Austin, an industrial town of 3,200 in the southwestern part of Potter County, is in ruins. It was swept by a flood about 2 o'clock this afternoon. Fire followed the flood, and to-night from 850 to 1,000 persons are dead and 2,000 men, women, and children are homeless. Late to-night 149 bodies had been

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[jeff of pa]

RUSHING LABOR TO AID AUSTIN; Many Bodies Still in the Ruins and Survivors Demand Their Dead.

October 3, 1911, Tuesday

AUSTIN, Penn., Oct 2. -- Some progress was made to-day in the removal and search of the debris left by the flood that swept through this valley town on Saturday afternoon, and more of the victims were found in the ruins of houses and under the piles of lumber carried down by the rush of water. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[jeff of pa]

FEWER THAN 200 DEAD IN AUSTIN; 60 BODIES FOUND; Relief Reaches Flood-Swept Town and Homeless Are Sheltered and Fed.

October 2, 1911, Monday

AUSTIN, Penn., Oct. 1. -- With an army of volunteer rescuers working their way through the mass of wreckage which still encumbers the streets of this shattered town, estimates of the loss of life caused by the flood which swept through the valley yesterday have been greatly modified. To-night the general opinion is that the number of deaths may not reach 150, and will probably not exceed 200. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[jeff of pa]

ONLY TWO DIED IN COSTELLO.; Hatless, Coatless Man Riding a Bicycle Ahead of the Flood Saved the Rest.

October 2, 1911, Monday

COSTELLO, Penn., Oct. 1. -- While the town of Costello was destroyed by the flood, its death list is only two. The victims are Edward W. Earle, whose body has been recovered, and a Mrs. Hodges. That the fatalities were not proportionately as large as those in Austin is due to a dramatic and successful warning of the impending disaster. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[jeff of pa]

FOURTH OF POPULATION DEAD.; Man Three Minutes Ahead of Flood in Auto Saved Some in Costello.

GALETON, Penn., Sept. 30. -- Reliable information received here late to-night puts the number of dead at Austin at 600 or about one-fourth of the population. Bodies are being found six miles away. In Austin the bodies are found in heaps amid piles of wreckage. At one place twenty bodies were piled up against the stone wall of a building. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[jeff of pa]

THIEVES LOOTING HOUSES.; Rush Into Deserted Homes and Carry On Their Work Unhindered.

October 1, 1911, Sunday

OLEAN, N.Y., Sept. 30. -- A telegram from Keating Summit to-night says that Mr. Hilton of Smethport, member of the Pennsylvania Assembly from McKean County, has appealed to Harrisburg to have the State Constabulary rushed to Austin to prevent the pillaging of deserted homes. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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[Frankn]

Jeff: you might want to incorporate this into LOST PAYROLL GOLD NEAR AUSTIN as they cover the same subject and it would help the posters.[