The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-27
I RILLING TALES
OF GREAT FLOOD.
Believed Now That Loss Of Life
viii Reach 100.
MANY ARE STARVING
STORIES TOLD OF HOW MANY
PEOPLE Persisted.

lager. w. Va. June 26.-EarIy this
moruing an Associated Press CORES
pondant req ched this point, which is ia
the cenerel part OF the northern sec
ton Of the scene of Saturdays Hood.
tdere Dry Forks enters Tug river The
lo-s Of life here is even greater than
at Arst reported The correspondent
reacl,ed here after riding and walking
from the Tug river and Williamson.
Instance 81 sixty miles, being the first
newspaper man to- reach the Dry Fork
section
Beyond Eere for a distance Of thirty
mites, the railroad track is almost
]. .t-mpieteiy washed away and telegraph
4 Tres are down and nothing definite IS
known regarding the loss of lie and
property through that region. 1T is
sate to say tnat 100 dead Will not be
lar amiss.
1he Inhabitants are desoIate, and
hundtecs are starving. There is no
way of conveying provisions along the
Dry Fork or Tug river, save on mule
pack This afternoon. in one drove.
twenty mules, loaded with provisions,
made the start across the mountains
10 bradshaw, nifty miles away, where
~ is said many families have had no.
i FOOD since saturday.
The stories OF eye Witnesses of she
hood are appalling The waters came
down Dry Fork as a mighty wave ful-
ly twenty feet nigh. AT the intersec-
uon of Tug river it met another hugs
volume and the noise caused by the
CRASHING together of trees, houses.
hrlQEes and debris OF all kinds could
De heard for miles.
Here Tug river rose thirty feet in two
hours. Bridges which spanned the river
were swept away, as wen S-tWerty or
more twO-story buildings. one Of which
was the pOstCiiice. RACES SlOujs. a civil
engineer, living here, says that when
the mighty wave of water swept down
Dry Fork huge pine trees in its path
! climbed tree on mountain side for
SAFETY, ana was compelled to sit in the
Pr2nches four hours until the water
had subsided.
ON a little island in the distance was
located the saloon of Pink Storm and
Walter Ransom. Both of these men
went TO the roof of the building, but
8 was swept away and torn TO pieces.
storm was drowned, but Ransom was
rescued.
Saw Four Men Drowned.
j. w. Kliness, a lumber man. residing
near cincinnati, ran To the mountain
sue and saved himself. He saw four
men run to the Dry Fork bridge. and
when IL was. swept away and went ID
pieces all were drowned He did not
Know any of them. No reports have
yet reached here from the extreme
tnlckly inhabited by small farmers 1t
Is feared the loss of life has been great
there.
Among those drowned on Dry Fork
was Tom q. Beavers, a lumberrnan
who came here from Ohio and began
operating mill His entire plant was
swept away Others known "a be
/ drowned are Mrs. Frank Samuels and
two children. George Criggers. Mrs.
White. wife of merchant. and two
Along she Tug river today. searching
parties could DE seen pulling bodies
ont OF the drifts Many were bruised
and man6led. and decomposition made
. the stencil almost unbearabIe.
Al Panther "a large county bridge
was swept away. a number of cabins
occupied by lumlermen and two large
commissaries were also swept away
one of the latter Goated down the river
like Steamboat and was not wrecked
until turning bend half a mile below
Forty box cars were carried away from
siding hereabOuts. The current was
50 swift that all The soil is washed from
MANY small bottoms to bedrock. Even
the graves Of the dead were rObbed. by
the raging torrents.
Near here last evening, i'm q pile of
drift. was discovered q coffin. It Is
supposed that it came from the grave
yard below ECkmau, which, fl is said
leaviuE exposed many skeletons. Jusl
below Welch. a bridge was swept away
with six people ON the structure. How
many of these persisted IS not known
FROM four miles east the report comes
that the body of a man has been found
In the forks of tree now staudiug
some distance from the water