Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-23
RAIN And FLOODS.
Buildings Carried Alvey and PtOpls
File for Their Lives.
VERY HEAVY LOSS OF PROPERTY.
Accommodation frAiu Chased by The
StOfm-farm Animals Drowned
In tue Water.

DUNBAR, Pa, July 2s.--The heavi.
est faiu storms anu floods that have
visited this section for many years oc-
CURED here last night Rain fell Ia
torrents for over three houfs. Trains
from Pitsbutg and the southwest
Pennsylvania railroad and on the Is.
& ohio road have not yet pa'ted this
point. The bridges between Duuuar
and Uniontown are all washed away
and the tricks are washed out In many
places also. The local nirtams Ef1
swollen higher than at any time since
the fleod OF 1855.
People along the banks Of the Duu.
bar creek were compelled 70 lee Tor
their llvos and buildings were carried
away In the torrent. The briugel
cfUshing the creek, WI ich runs through
the town, are all swe Awuy, separat.
Ing the town. The Dunbar Furnace
company and the Dunbar lirc brick
company plants re all Hooded. the
lues Will aggregate many Thousands "
d0llats. samuel waihaUaugh,
pumIefht the Cambria Iron company
WofkS, was drowned. Tho pump house
WAS undctmiucd aud carried away,
DISASTROUS CLOUD HURST.
CoNNELIsviLLE, Pa, July g8.-Thu
heaviest faIu storm IN this vicinity Tor
years eliminated last night In cloud.
bufst fetulting IN an immentc amount
OF properly less. 80 far o. known no
ilvos were lost but hundreds were
placed In danger and MI the people 10
tho path OF storm have not yet been
hcGr1 from,
RAILROADS BLoCKED.
BRADFORD, Pa, July pa cloud.
burst occurred here lAst uight lnI all
railroads anu their branches have been
blocked by wa.hDuta aud bnugsaHWept
away. /! is impossible TO foacl scott.
dale, where tue wOTst trouble Ia iestoi
Tho wSlot fell "a sheels. The Mount
Pleasant accom- notation train wac
chased by tins storm. Five minutUu
latter tbs track was under water and
the Fflck cake works here. BUulIcu
weighing hundreds OF pounds were
relied down the hillside by the storm.
Tue county bridge over GaulUy Kun
was torn away aud swep. against tue
is, Il, q railroad bfllge, tearing 70 out.
Tue tracks here are covered with mud.
Dozena Of farm animals wuro drowned
In the rueh OF water, which TsCedou
almost ns rapidly ~ 10 came. House,
In crook bottoms were Hooded five and
six feug and narrow escapes from death
occurred. Wfscking crews are work.
Ing II the debris,
MINES FLOODED.
DUNBAR, Pa, July gS.-Last nighrs
flood anu storm did great damage.
The Presbyterian parsonage wa. struck
by lightning nud partially d,stToyoi.
Many buildings were badly damaged.
The telegraph poles along tho T.. & o.
ROAD were blown down, and the track
been dunbar aud UnioutOwn washed
out over half u mile. Bridges over the
Dunbar creek we're oil swept away,
separating the town. The mines ANA
coke works In this section uT0 flooded.
The totglton mine 10 total wfgeI.
Many houses were swept away, but
rs lat Us known tho occupants escaped
10 tho mountains, A heavy hail storm,
which followed, worked destruction TO
farms,
A SAD SPECTACLE.
DENVER, July GA special 10 the
Times from Silver CITY, y. NJ, says:
Ihls wa presents n tAu spectacle 90.
day, caused by tbs most destructive
iloud ever known In THIS region. sun
DAY night tho water came down from
every direction, aud, meeting Al PoF.-
ernoid'. corner, threw the Il 4oi flght
on to the business houses. Mud hHd
SAND were piled up on broadway hall
way up to the windows. The post office
was ruined and tue fremont aud TfIu-
mer hotels badly wrecked, the lower
h0Ors being hlled filled with tRnd anu
water. Broadway hotel WAS wrecked.
In ever part OF tho town houses were
tumbling down, Gillette u Bon lost
goods 10 the amount Of $4,000. Olhur
business men lIse similar amounts.
The approximate estimate OF tho loss
II 100000. A number Of bridges
were washed away. IL will DO week
before tho trains can pass into town.
The weather Is threatening today.