Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-08-01
WATERS IN A FURY
RUN AND DESOIATION IN WEST
ERN PENNSYLNt ANA.
Houses Swept Away by ClnudhurStS
and People Crushed to Death
and Drowned.

Pittsburg. July 2S.-Eisht persons We're
drowned in the flood last night Seven of
these met death at Cecil, a mining and oil
| hamlet in Washington county the eighth
| victim going down at Carnegie. The dead
are:
! Mrs. Samuel Mckinney
| Margaret Mckinney.
James Mckinney.
! Clyde Beatty
| G. c. Higgins
| Vincent Wilkinson.
Jennie Holmes
John Wright (colored)
Samuel Mckinney kept a boarding house
at Cecil for the accommodation of min
erS. The house was situated on the banks
OF Miller run, a tributary of Charters
creek Ordinarily the run. which lows
through valley banked by high and
steep hills, would scarcely float a chip
but last night a cloudburst filled in lit
closely confined quarters to such an ex-
tent that everything on its banks was en-
sulfed
There We're 10 people in the Mckinney
mouse when the water commenced to rise
at . o'clock, but no serious danger was
apprehended until the men busted them
selves carrying household goods to the
second floor, and the female population
OF the house continued dressing for the
dance that wes being held in a neighbor-
ing hail. Suddenly the house. a two-
story frame affair. washed from its
foundation into the seething waters and
rapidly carried down stream. 1t was then
too late for any one in the house to cs.
cape. Below the site of the house about
20o yards stands an old-fashoned country
pfld$e Which spans the stream. The
house crashed against this the roof was
torn off, and the rest of the building was
crushed like an eggshell in being forced
under the bridge. Higgins and William
" htner We're caught between the FIRST
and second floor. Higgins died there hut
Whitner made most miraculous escape.
Ihose on the second floor We're badly
squeezed. just below the bridge the
Wreckage Of the house struck a sand bar.
Thomas Hayes Vincent Wilkinson and
others formed 4 reScuing party Whit
mer was rescued While fast in the wreck
age by Wilkinson, who also dragged the
dead body of Higgins from its lodgmant.
Samuel Mckinney was also saved hv
Wilkinson.
After assisting in Other rescues VII
kinson heard a cry for help up he
stream, aud Notwithstanding the extreme
hazard attached to it. the brave fellow
made tn" attempt to swim across with
a rope. When about naIt Way over a
los struck him on the head and broke his
neck. His body was found several hun
dfed y"rds below the place in a tree
ClXGe Beatty WAS another hero who
lost ms life He made strenuous ef-
forts to save Margaret Mckinney an,
Jennie Holmes and had been lodged in u
tfet Whef WANe came along and swept
an three to death. Beatty had several
opportunities to save himself. but refused
to leave his companions. Those of the
unfortunate party who We're rescued
We're taken from branches OF trees and
parts of Wreckage. Thos. Who lost their
lives We're knocked lscnsible bv rap f!
ldlN f1oatlng logs which made them an
easy prey for the torrent The bodies
hav" all been recovered
Wright. the colored liveryman while |
attempting to drive across a bridge at
Murray was caught by the high waters |
OF Charters creek, near Carnegie and |