The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-25
FLOOD VICTIMS NEED help
Governor White Issues an Appeal
to West Virginia Citizens.

The Extent of the Disaster in the
Flat Top Coal Regions Not Yet
knOwn-Ohio's Executive Thanked
for the offer of Aid Made by Him.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 25-Gov
White, after a consultation with the Sec
retary of State, Col William NJ O. Daw-
sued the following appeal to citizens Of
West Virginia:
Executive Department June "a
ITO the Citizens Of West Virginia.
An appalling disaster by hood has
oVertaken the people of the Flat Top
coal region. The loss Of life and prop
erty Is very great While | am as yet
without definite information uudoubt-
ediy great destitutiOn and suffering
viii follow Aid is required to care for
the sick ana bury the dead Generous
gifts Of money are urgently needed
with which necessary supplies can be
purchased Contributions may be sent
by wire or otherwise to the Ad1utant
General at Charleston, or any bank at
Iluefieid- He gives twice who gives
quickly
The Governor has also sent reply 20
the telegram received from Governor
Nash, Of Ohio, thanking him for the Of
ASi u c40 rum NfietI St<1It7 4tAGt8tS5 As4dL
amy outside aid had best be in money
and can be sent to Adjutant General
Eaker at Charleston or to any bank cash
Ter of BIuefield- Thousands of miners are
homeless
BLUEFIELD, Wa, June 25--AI lat
er reports from the scene of the North
Fork and Elkhorn floods tend to lessen
the first estimates as to the loss Of life
by the disaster, although the damage to
property is still held at figures between
s.. 1.0g0.e00 and $2,050,0o0. 1t is believed that
not ever sixty lives have been lost, but
nothing like an accurate account of the
dead and missing can be made up until
communication is more thoroughly re
stored
The tracks Of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad are broken for a distance of
eighty miles and telegraph lines through
out this region are down. Repair gangs
have started out and it is hoped to have
the lines restored for partial service in
two or three days.
That so small loss of human life
should have resulted from such extensive
property devastation seems almost mi
raculous- The settlements were for the
most part composed of shanties in the
bed of the rayine through which the swoI-
-Eit 1AFGIS Idu. EFGIE tlliAS HdS CdEEltu
off before the torrent of water. Those
who have managed to reach the borders
OF the devastated region, however, con-
firm the impression that the loss OF life
was not as great as was expected by the
fact that no one Of them can tell OF more
than three or four persons whose lives
were lost in any particular hamlet.
All efforts are being made today TO has
ten relief to the distressed families in the
stricken district.
NORFOLK, Va, June 25.-There will be
no scarcity of Pocahontas coal at Norfolk
in consequence of the flood in West Vir-
6inia, Forty thousand tons of coal which
were on cars on the line east of Roanoke
when the storm arose have arrived here.
The agents here are advised. that ship
ments of coal from branch operations will
be resumed within two days. The stock
of coal here viii last q week even though
not re-enforced.
Press dispatches of today are mislead-
ing, in that they report General Manager
Of the Norfolk and Western johnson as
saying that the Norfolk branch of the
Norfolk and Western was nearly all
washed away This evidently refers to
q spur OF track in West Virginia and has
no reference to the main line Of the road
between Norfolk and Bristol Tenn, 40S
miles in length, which is intact and over
which trains are running as usual.
It is believed here that bad as the storm
was the damage done has been greatly ex-
aggera1ed.
NEW YORK, June 25-The following
telegram was received this morning at the
New York office of the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad from the general passenger /
agent Of the road at Roanoke. Va:
Latest information as to the storm at
Pocahontas coal field, damage to property |
;260.gt0. Loss of life about sixty No |
oss of passengers or trains. We expect
o resume running of trains on Wednes- |
lay