Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — 3 NEGRO CHILDREN DROWNED [ARTICLE]

3 NEGRO CHILDREN DROWNED

Kentucky Cloudburst Has Disastrous Result in Negro Section. Winchester. Ky., July 5. —As the result of a cloudburst here the town was flooded and three negro children in Poyntown, the negro portion of the town, were drowned The storm broke almost without watning and the residents in the lower part of the town were forced to flee from their homes without taking any other effects with them. The rainfall continued for an hour and it is estimated that lose to property will be near SIOO,OOO. ’