Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-15
ANGRY WATERS WORK
Torrent Comes IN Night OF New York
Country Village,
HAVOC WROUGHT BY A BURSTING DAM
Buildings Are Carried Away and Their
Occupants Drown.
SEVEN LIVES LOST IN The RAGING FLOOD
Victims Swept from Tier Beds by the
Rushing Waters,
FIVE OF The BODIES ARE RECOVERED
Others Are Buried in the Great Mas.
of Ehrth and sand Washed
Down Where the Dam
broke.
I'VE OF The BODIES ARE RECOVERED

TWO large reservoirs in the Fsbk.u noun
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CLOCK ms morning and ne water that
wzs released swept through The Duchess val
lev causing ruin and 7aa.
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NTeeA4ee leii IN the wake OF the food and
here are known 20 De Two and probably three
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houses that were swept away by the torrent.
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the elEluee- lu T.munys ariakva-a. her body
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JOHN C0NR0y. aged o Years , So, %
Eng aeer Cunr0y
JULIA CONROY aged & wears a 5avrbtar
1 of Engineer Cou-oy
UNKNOWN HUNGARIAN.
The upper dam gave way. letting the volume
0f wafer into the lower reservoir This also
bu-s; and The water rushed down through 4
-zrlle. Van Buren, q T.m0lys brick ward
is on the Hudson just below Dutchess Juno
ton q mile distant rom tho size Of the
! lower reservoir TE5,10rlr gys-n.rar' he gccj
reached them through the ~g.-ira and made
terri bic havoc. Buildings wee torn n eces
/ Ing aool.
I The water works system was operated ~
! private company and supplied e. q vliaEts
/ 1f Mat,ewAn ana Fishk.li-0n-the- Hudson
/ Reports received say that three buildings.
two Of which were boarding hols IS we're
swept away, and that twenty people ere
missing. Five bodies have been covered
/ IheT are those Of Peter MHlIgan and wife:
/ q mother with a lhll5 ami the wife Of he
sHE.neer al Tlmuny.s brick yarl.
The BODY Of Mrs. Mary Ferry was re-
. covered TINS afternoon. dug from mud and
debris ten fee: deep. the w1rkuen worked all
cay IN the ruins. Mrs Couruy one of the
lost before her marriage: lived al Johns
town Pa. where the great food occurred
/ several years ago. She wze -eecued there bv
TohH Coaroy. who af-e wards married her.
Mo-. Of the ruins have been searched and it
/ is possible mat some bodies have begn swsnt
into The river
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9feht IN LN". Ne mood carried the first
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