The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-06-13

sought refuge when the nood
Il came. But. the house melted
away in the water Ike 80 much
sand.
Tor son, MorreH Swenk, wa.
\ found asleep the next day BY tbs
| father in the baby carriage i mile
'Ifrom where the house stood. Thu
baby woke up and crowed with
laughter when picked up by il.
father.
The pastor of the Dunkard
Church in Kernville told me thit
morning that not a member of hi.
congregation-and many living il
/ Johnstown--was lost. Every one
has been heard from. One d
the merchants drowned was
MAX GoLDESBuRa, a MILLIONAIRE
When his body was found a mag.
Inificent diamond pin he wore IN
his tic was gone.
The ledge in the Hurlburt
House, in which so many lives
were lost, was found 100 feet MP
i the Allegheny Mountains on q
coal ledge, a mile from where the
hotel stood. Ex-sheriff Ryan
one of the most popular men Of
the town, owned a grocery on
Nv Y! & street twe large
! ffan1ifiesoccnp yingtlfe-tfppei
j part of the building. He and his
| wife and nine of his ten children
were at home when the food
came, and all were
i SWEPT AWAY AN6 DROWNED.
Two daughters, Mary and Eiz-
I zie, in convent at Altoona, are
| all that is left of the family.
1 In the Catholic Church which
burned was a corpse of member
at the time of the flood. The
funeral was to have been held
that morning, but was postponed
till the next morning, and the
corpse was left on the bier. Two
days afterward, when the ruins
were excavated, this corpse was
found !. partially DESTROYED. The
coffin was entirely burned.
THE MOST HEART-ToUcHING INCIDENTS
Are constantly coming up. Men
and women are hungry here and
then seaching for some trace OF
lost ones. ssOh, deary, haze you
seen my mother I beard one
girl ask another. ',Yes, she is
safe, but my two little brothers
are drowned was the reply.
=-==@TMoRRgTHERs MET==
/ 'oe=71d1ay for the first time since the
I flood. Each was hoping against
hope that at least one of the par
fents/was alive, the family having
become separated when the flood
lswept their house away, the
i father with one Of the sons going
4 down. stream with one part and
/, the mother with the rest of the
i family being carried in another
/ direction.
Is tatder safe ,sIine!2' Iphere Is
mother, Jo6ns" were the stimuli
/ taneous questions put by each.
How they sobbed when each
told his story that all of the
family except himself was 1ost'
! On Clinton street a curious
freak of the flood can be seen.
1t is a narrow section of wall, the
back part of a house standing by
itself, three stories high. Each
side of it the house has been
without support. ready to totter
lover. On the upper part oft this
| wall is a window. The lace cur
tains and pole are still in place,
/ although the lower hale Of the
sash has been carried away.
| On the Wall by the window side
rand over the fireplace hangs a
circular, gilt-framed portrait OF
an old lady The mantel Of the
fireplace, with a damask and vel
low-fringed lambrequin, is intact,
with one or two ornaments still
standing upon it.
THE RUINS.
Hard work is a good preventive
for the homeless people of this
city from brooding over their ter
rible afflictionss'.y4 All the men
that are able to are employed in
clearing away the debris.
TIE WOMEN
Have had their hands full jim
washing out at the river Bank the