Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-20
RAvAGES OF A CLOUD-BURST
The Little Kanawha Valley Swept BY
Flood-Several Lives Lost.

The cloud-burst In the little Kanawha valley
on Thursday night, Of which brief mention was
made in The SrAR yesterday, proves to have
been much more serious in its consequences
than was at first supposed. It has completely
flooded the country, destroying many lives,
carrying OF thousands of dollars in property
| and running the crops for many miles. The
deluge fell about dusk and continued to fall IN
torrents, doing much damage.
The worst Of the storm struck the lower side
OF the Kanawha, filing small tributaries from
bank to bank and ending in the worst food
within the recollection of the oldest inhabit-
ants. In three hours the Kanawha raised
feet and ran out with such velocity that 1t car
ried everything before it. At this point thou
sands OF logs and number OF boats went out
or were sunk.
The Little Kanawha lumber company lost
1000 logs; Vests mill, ten RATS; Barringer,
several fleets; W. p. Padden, five barges with
ties, several of which we're caught below.
keever 4 Co. lost four barges of coal; Miller,
three RATS and 1900 ties; Taylor, one feet OF
timber; Chas. Wells, four barges. In one hour
5000 logs went out. Mrs. Isaac II. Tucker,
Martin Lawless, and an unknown man were
drowned.
ABOVE THE DESTRUCTION WAS STILL GREATER.
Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The
big mill near its mouth went out and took the
Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all the
fences. crops and much live stock was lost. At
Chestery1iie, small town about 10 miles
above, half the residences were carried of
bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district
fine church and three dwellings were wrecked.
About noon information was received that the
steamer Oneida had been wrecked and sunk at
Enterprise, above. Still later a report came
that the steamer Q. c. Martin was sunk at
Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also re-
ported completely ruined. Heatherington's
store, Capt. Spencer's residence, G. p Cooper's
residence, and that of ]. w. Smith are COM
pletely demolished, but no lives are reported
lost 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
in the village about midnight and totally de-
stroylng It, together with many OF its people.
The first report gave the loss at eleven, but
later news seems to fix the loss at greater
number. The houses Of the citizens are said
to have been picked up and hurled against
each other in such short space of time that no
those lost at Morristown are Jake Kiger, his
brothers Joseph and Thomas; a man named
Bailey, Orrville West, wife and child. The body
| Of man believed to be another Morrstown
victim was found on Richardson farm this
| morning.
At Pill Brush all bridges and culverts are
washed away and 1t is impossible to reach or
communicate with that point or any other on
| upper waters. 1t is impossible now to emu
merate the loss even here, as the river is still
rising and tearing everything loose. A family
boat containing three or four persons went
out during the night and it is believed all are
lost, as the last seen of them was when the
woman held up a child in her arms and beck
oned for assistance they disappeared in the
| food Later freight train on the Ohio River
railroad broke through a trestle at Harris
Ferry, completely wrecking the train and IA
| tally injuring VIM. Neptune, an employee. The
| wreck was caused by a heavy washout Balti-
| more and Ohio trains delayed by vashouts at
Kanawha station have reported that lock No. 1,
| above Parkersburg, on the Little Kanawha, was
| giving way before the flood.