Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-25

cred at Eckman, two miles below here.
Several were drowned at Shawnee and q
good part Of the town swept away.
IAN the women were conveyed from
the hotel TO the mountain side by means
Of the lie line Then the men left as
the place was unsafe, When Il cume
my turn seized the line and plunged
Into the muddy current. In an instant
my feet were swept from under me and
II was the eight of my he to reach the
house on the south side OF the street
The distance was not great and the
water not more than three feet deep,
but the current was almost Irresistible
and even cows and horses were swept
past me as ! clung 70 the rope which
was the only hope. Friendly hands
pulled me out more dead than alive.
The hotel Is still standing
HUNDREDS ARE MISSING
Richmond, va, June o. THE Dis
patch correspondent returned from The
scene Of the Keystone Hood disaster
today. There Ia no possible way vet to
estimate the loss OF HE or property
Hundreds OF people are missing or are
reported missing and a large number Of
dead bodies have been recovered
Everywhere is debris ot wrecked homes.
demoslghcd railroad cars and broken
and spintered household furniture and
now and then the corpse Of victim.
Railroad iron Was bent by the force Of
the water iron bridges resting on their
pier OF solid masOnary wlthsto0d the
strain but moment and went down.
The surging waters ate away railway
Z Il ID
of coal We're carried 20 destruction The
Elkhorn and North Fork valleys We're
made scenes of deya station and death
In a few short hours Tho financial
loss Is unobtainable but II ~ estimated
that It viii take millions to repair the
damage. The Norfolk a Western
tracks Tor miles are washed out and II
ls impossible to say when their trains
can be operated Although the dam
age begins at Coaldale. Keystone and
Burke are the greatest sufferers. The
two towns are practically one and form
the largest place in the coal fields.
Many nonresident miners were IN Key
stone on Saturday morning and num-
beers OF them whose names will never be
learned perished In the food
A SCENE OF DISASTER.
Richmond, Va June ga Dispatch
correspondent who returned 30 Blue
fields from the scene az the disaster
this morning describes the havoc as
most appalling He says that hundreds
CT people ale missing or reported miss
Ing, but dIstredits the FIRST reports Of
the loss uf life
LOSS OF LIFE EXAGGERATED
williamson, w. Va, June 25,-Re-
ports from points south In the lower
end OF the flooded district Indicate that
the loss Of life has been. largely eXag-
gerote1. Probably not over 100 have
persisted and the loss NAV not reach
lj The greatest loss Is at Keystone,
Vivian and ElkhOrn Not over half
dozen lives were lost in Tug river vail
ley On this stream the property loss
is roughly estimated at q million dol
lars.
NINE HOUSES WASHED AWAY,
Richmond, Va June 2j.-- a special
from Tazewell, w, Va, says that at Ce-
Oar Bluff west Of there, nine houses
were washed away but no lives were
lost as far as known Many mill dams
are gone
The town Of Liberty, nine miles west
OF Tazewell, Is badly damaged. The
food seems to have embraced the whole
country, extending into tho eastern peat
OF Russqll ard Forty Htile read