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<br />NEW YORK
<br />About 50,000 refugees remained in temporary shelters in the
<br />state's Southern Tier. At least BOO families had no homes to
<br />return to.
<br />The Department of JJousing and Urban Development esti-
<br />mated thai property damage in the state totaled $100-million:
<br />5,700 homes were destroyed in Elmira, 3,400 in Olean, 2,300 in
<br />Corning, 2)00 in Wellsville, BllO in Alfred, 700 in Hornell, 600
<br />in Allegany, 300 in Almond, 170 in Salamanca and 300 in
<br />Portsville.
<br />Death toll for the state was set lemporarily at 23.
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<br />01110 VALLEY
<br />The Ohio River seemed to have stabilized. In Pittsburgh,
<br />losses were put at $45-million, including damage to 3,600 homes.
<br />Damage was particularly heavy in New i\1artinsville, W. Va.,
<br />30 miles southwest of Wheeling. Fifty-eight loaded coal barges
<br />hroke loose on the Ohio River Sunday, and eight sank. It is
<br />estimated the damage in the state at $25-million.
<br />Damage in the state orOhio alone was estimated at $1-million.
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<br />MARYLAND
<br />About 200 homes were damaged by the flood waters.
<br />Police reported tbat 21 persons had died in the floods, and
<br />three \-vere missing. Damage was set at $55-million, and af least
<br />27B families were left homeless.
<br />The Small Husinpss ^dministration set up officp.s in Baltimore
<br />and Ellicott City to receive applications for low-interest Inans
<br />to rcpair flood damage.
<br />VIRGINIA
<br />Richmond, the most severely affected city in the state, had
<br />about 125,000 people in the northern Virginia suburbs of Wash-
<br />ington without clean water two daY' ailer the hurricane had
<br />tapered off
<br />The state's death toll was pul at17. Damages were tentatively
<br />estimated at $210-million but some expected the figure to reacb
<br />$30()-million.
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<br />NEW JERSEY
<br />Two residents died in accidents caused by floods, and tbe
<br />flood damage was put at at least $20-million, including $10-
<br />million in crop losses.
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<br />PRELIMINARY GAR ES1IMA US AS OF JUNE 23, 1"72
<br />OF HURRICANE AGNES HOOD LOSSES
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<br />The figures prt'sf'ntE-'d an' a recapitulation of properly damage estimates
<br />preparf'd by local GAB personnel in the \vakf' of Hurricane Agnes. The figures
<br />do no! include bridges, roads, r;lilro<!(h, crops, land erosion, Ipvpl-''i, ,IlJto-
<br />mobiles or bO<lts. Some figures Me missing ,1I1d sonlP. estimates are based on
<br />experienced judgment since flood damage 10 communications and tram-
<br />port.ltion hampcrpd imnwdialc survey work. These figlJrp'i in no way represent
<br />the insurpd Im'i as very little flood covcril.gc i'i wrillen. See comments on
<br />page 27 concerning thp Flood Insurance Association.
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<br /> Estimated
<br /> Esti1l1Jted 0Jo. of Dollar
<br />StJtp Dan1age Incidents Damage
<br />Conneclirul 225 $3,000,000
<br />Delaware f
<br />Maryland 9,660 -18,460,000
<br />Washington, D.C.
<br />Elorida 20,565 11,207,000
<br />New Jersey 8,150 8,112,000
<br />New York 37,875 41,385,000
<br />North Carolina 1,267 1,835,000
<br />Ohio 900 1,000,000
<br />Pennsylvania 91,775 410,060,000
<br />Virginia 19,165 69,650,000
<br />\Nest Virginia 4,141 5,492,500
<br />Totals 193,723 $570,201,500
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