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Mingo Junction, OH Flood, Mar 1907

Posted October 30th, 2007 by Linda Horton

Ten of Two Families Perish.

Steubenville, Ohio, Mar. 15.---Ten members of two foreign families are reported to the officials at Mingo Junction to have been drowned to-day in the flood. The houses floated away with their occupants.

Every house in the East Side of Mingo Junction is submerged and 1,000 people there are homeless. Flood sufferers are being sheltered and fee in the mayor's office, lodge rooms and schoolhouses. At Empire every house but three is submerged, and 500 people are homeless.

The Washington Post, Washington, DC 16 Mar 1907
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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