The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-07-27

tained-Many Ccrpses Seen, but
they Cannot be Reached-Par.
kersburg Suffers Heavily.
A terrible disaster occurred in the
Little Kanawha Valley last Friday.
Wires are down, communication is
practically cut of and but meager
reports have been received. The
names of those known to have per-
ished are:
Tucker Creek
Mrs. Orville West,
Oscar Kiger,
Mrs. Oscar Kiger and three chill
dren,
Tobias Bailey.
Lockhart's Postofiice:-
Mrs. Thomas Hughes and four
children.
Sandy Creek
Robert Black,
Mrs. Robert Black.
Two unknown men.
Pond Creek
Edward Boso,
Tygart Creek
Mrs. Isaac Roberts.
Psrkersburg:-
Mrs. Isaac Tucker.
A TERRIBLE CLOUD BURST.
This, the greatest disaster that
ever befell the Little Kanawha Val
ley, came Friday night in the shape
of terrible cloud burst, which
completely flooded the country, de-
stroying many lives, carrying off
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty and running the crops for miles
around. The deluge fell about
dusk and continued to fall in tor
rents, doing great damage in the
towns. The worst of the storm struck
the lower side of the Kanawha,
filling the email tributaries from
bank to bank and causing the worst
flood within the recollection of the
oldest inhabitant.
In three hours the Kanawha rose
six feet, and ran with such velocity
that the waters carried everything
before them. AT this point { Park
ersburg) thousands of logs and a
number of boats went out or were
sunk.
LOSSES OF LtMBERMAs.
The Little Kanawha Lumber Com
pany lost 1000 logs; West Mills, 10
RATS; Barringer, several fleets; w.
T. Padden, 5 barges of ties, several
of which were caught below; Keever
d Co. lost A bsrges of coal, wrecked
against the Ohio Railroad bridge;
Miller, 8 RATS and 1000 ties; Taylor
one feet of timber; Charles Wells, A
barges and one fuel fiat In l hour
5000 logs went out.
Three lives were lost at this point,
one of the bodies being unidentified.
Above here the destruction was
still greater. The Big Tygart val
ley is completely ruined. The big
mill near it's mouth went out and
took the Tygart bridge along with
it. In the valley all the fences, crops
and much live stock were lost At
Chesterville, a smart town about 10
miles above here, half of the resi-
dences were swept away and left in
corn fields many yards distant In
the Clay district fine church and
three dwellings were wrecked
STEAMERS REPORTED SUNK
About noon to day information
was received that the steamer Onei-
da had been wrecked and sunk at
Enterprise, above here Later a re-
port came that the steamer C. c.
Martin was sunk at Burning Springs.
Little Tygart is reported completely
ruined. Heatherington's store, Cap
tain Spencer's residence, c. P. Coop
er's residence and that of J. W.
Smith are demolished, but no lives
are reported lost at that point as yet.
The worst story of all comes from
Morristown, small village near the
head of Tucker creek, where the
cloud burst concentrated in all its
fury, coming down upon the village
about midnight and totally destroy
ing it, together with many of its in
habitants. The first report gave the
loss of lives as IL, but later news
places the loss at greater number.
HOUSES CRASH TOGETHER.
The houses of the citizens are said
to have been picked up and hurled
against each other in such a short
space of time that no chance to es
cape was given the occupants. I'm
til the waters recede the number of
lives lost cannot be aseertained.
Seven dead bodies have, however,
been identified at this place.
This morning the body of a man,
believed to be another Morristown
victim, was found at Richardson in
a pile of brush. In the neighbor.
hood of Morristown all the bridges
and culverts are gone, and it is i'm
possible to reach or communicate
with that point, or any other on the
upper waters. 1t is impossible to
even guess at the loss here, as the
river is still rising and tearing every
thing loose.
MOTHERS PITEoUs APPEAL
A family boat containing three or
-four persons went out during the
night and it is believed all the occu-
pants are lost, as the last seen of
them was when the women held up
u child in her arms and beckoned as
sistance
Late this evening a freight train
on the Ohio River Railroad broke
through trestle at Harris's Ferry,
completely wreeking the train and
fatally injuring William Neptune,an
emplove. The wreck was caused by
a heavy washout. All Baltimore 81
Ohio trains are delayed by washouts
at Kanawha Station.
1t has just been reported that lock
No. l, above the city on the Little
Kanawha has given away before the
flood.
Saved The Value of Farm.
Sellers Cough Syrup has attained