The Austin Dam Disaster by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 24, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 42.

The Austin Dam Disaster

By Editor

The more one reads about the awful destruction of Austin, in Pennsylvania, the sadder the whole thing grows. Scores and scores of lives lost, millions of dollars of damage wrought, and all of it needless! The whole valley living for years under a constant menace of a dam that was considered all too insufficient in strength, and yet nothing ever done to repair it! There were certainly loose screws somewhere, and some one ought to be held responsible, as they will be held responsible before the bar of God. The floods in Wisconsin seem to have been of a somewhat different character, owing to unprecedented rains, for the dam stood, but the floods cut around the dam, making new channels.