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

built II ii5st - supply wsfer Is
DE Oh Pennsylvania Canal. and
raised afterward 10 increase the
supply and minister 70 tie pleas
'''res 81 the ricIi members of the
south Fork Fishing Club, was not
equal to the terrible pressure and
i gave way, a every body knew
i would, before the day was over,
when they saw the housekeeping
down in torrents from every side.
This beautiful lake was
a PICTURE
Perfect in all its details and out
lines. The soft and poetic lam
g,rage Of Clande Melnofte in de-
scribing To his expectant bride
the loneliness Of his home by the
Italian lake could not excel in
loneliness the beautiful scene
presented to the eye by the placid
mirror of the Conemaugh Lake,
which reflected the sky and rug
ged bills about it.
Foot-sore and tired, and sick
ened and surfcited with horrible
sights Icomc again to the heavy
task of attempting to tell some
connected story Of this
AWFUL EVENT.
Never has a task been assigned
my pen that has 50 utterly ap-
pal1ed and over-whelmed the
powers of mind and language.
] can't tell the truth about it,
and there is no ,necessity.xfor cx-
aggerating, for the truth simply
told of this disaster will never be
believed by those who did not
witness the catastrophe, or who
have not gazed upon the
WRECK AND DEVASTATION
Since the calamity. have
walked over forty miles in the
last two days to sec with my own
eyes and judge for myself. Much
Of the time ! have been alone and
have had ample time to think
and study. | renew my awe and
reverence for Nature, in this hor-
ribIe presence, which demon
strates the resistless powers OF the
elements, and | am taught more
than ever how weak and helpless
poor finite man is.
There are pathetic tales of the
FATE OF JOHN sEEKMAN's FAMILY
Also of Woodvale. There were,
beside the parents, three grown
daughters and boy, Charley,
whom the other boys of the VII
1age had mad great sport Of on
account Of a shock Of red hair.
When this family we're swept
away on the roof, Charley and his
mother we're on a part by them
selves. In passing under the
edge of hill a rope was thrown
and a voice yelled to the boy to
save himself. He made an effort
to fastcn his mother to the rope
but the current swept it away and
the voice again called out: Jump
into the river and swim for the
rope. With a noble look of re-
solve sio5ifying his homely feas
lures the heroic boy shouted
back: ~, III de sciM my
mother, = and they were soon
swept under. One Of the girls,
Title Seekman, alone out of the
family was saved, and she is now
VIOLENTLY INSANE.
The Strcct-car Company's sta
bles, in Woodvale. with twenty
cars and fifty horses, were swept
away, and not a vestige of them
is yet found The company's
Superintendent, David Ducan,
and his family escaped.
Mrs. Moritz Wolf, the wife of
the clothier here, ran back into
the building to save her bird,
while the rest of the family ran
to the hills. Before she could. get
out the flood was upon her, and
she sprang to the roof. The store
stood next to the Catholic Church,
and when it caught fire from an
of natural gas it, too,
burned, and Mrs. Wolf persisted
miserably in in plain view Of her
family a few hundred
yards away.
ANOTHER SAD CASE
Was the loss of the Barley family.
The mother and five children
fioated away on the roof, but a
boy, Chambers, aged 3 wears, was