Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-24
TWO HUNDRED
PEOPLE LOST.
CIoudburst Causes a Great Flood
in West Virginia.
PROPERTY LOSS IMMENSE.
Miles OF Railroad Traek washed away
Iron Bridges Destroyed Ne-
grocs Looking Cor Loot

New YORK, June 2f-Mayot Lahu VI
Bluedelds, w. va, wires as iollows
I'll Is estimated that 200 lives were
lost in the Elkhorn hood. The damage
to the Norfolk q Western railroad is
estimated al half million dollars, anu
to The coal companies anu individuals
at two million dollars. iRere IL no
communication with any Point further
down the valley than ElihOru. J am
unable ~ tell whether outs,le assist
ulco VIII be needed until lurther IN
formation comes in.
THE First News.
Wdlhngton June g4.-IHe following
dispatches make been rectped BY the
Wusnugton Post regarding 81 reported
loss o. Ire by hood m Wes, Virginia.
"Liuc1clds, ". va, Juae ~, FLOOD
In Pccahontas county equ.itHB thal OF
JOhnstoWn, TWO hundlJl drowned,
impossible to estimate th9 loss Of prop
pcrty.
Roanoke. W. Va. June -S,--Cloud-
burst POcahontas division Norfolk
Western this morning. Keystone, Elk
horn Vivian and other Gowns wiped
out.
Railroad dispatches say that 800
l. 'es were lost. one house left in Key
stone. Twenty-Five to thirty miles OF
track destroyed
MAS CAUSED ~ CLoUDBCRsT,
Bluehelds, W. We, June 4f--1hls Sec
ton has just been visited By a Hood,
the extent Of which, 80 al probability
VIII equal or exceed ihat " Jamestown
In 1883 SO far as In loss Of property
a.. Cd tHaefs.t.I.Iu
shortly after m,n cht q Eeavy down
pour Of rain began accompanied by n
severe electric storm which increased
I'm volume continuing for several
hours The storm continued through
oit the entire day and nielt and at 10
a. m. while the storm has abated the
lowering clouds threaten another ter
rife lOWnpour at any moment
May miles Of the Norfolk & West
ern railroad track, bridges and tele-
graph lines are entirely DESTROYED and
communication Is entirely cut M ives
az ElNhorn so that II IS impossible 20
learn the tul extent Of the loss Of life
and property,
DAMAGE AT monte QMERY.
Montgomery, w. Va. June Alt is
estimated that the storm and washouts
Of Sunday did $4,000 damage 10 prop
erty IN this vicinity rho greatest
damage was "a the coa' spples, which
were partly demolished, hut no lives are
known TO have been lost.
STORIES OF PASSENGERS,
Roanoke Va, June 24--When the
passenger train from tho west over the
Norfolk g. Western railroad arrived
this morning there were many people
at the station who had waited anxious
~ all night for the helated news car
rier from the devastated coal fields Of
West Virginia. Among those on this
train who had been IN the storm were a
prominent business man Of Roanoke.
several railroad men and a woman and
two children. They came direct to
Roanoke from Vivian and were COM
PEELED 30 walk eleven miles 10 Ennis,
where they were cnabled to get train
for this city These passengers feel
confident that not more than 100 people
have lost their lives. The mountain
district lying back from the railroads
probably has suffered heavily and the
exact loss Of life viii not be known for
several days,
"A RAILROAD MANS ACCOUNT,
A railroad man who has been work.
ing at Vivian told the Associated Press
correspondent that the rain started
LAST Friday night and shortly after
midnight the heavens seemed to open
ana poured forth great volumes Of
water. When the cloud burst over the
town oil VIVIAN mere was passenger
tram STANDING III Tue rallroad yards
ABOUT forty passengers or Whom three
We're Women were III the car Inc
water rose rapiuiy ana soon was over
the trucks OF me cars, Houses ana
caIs were "e,hs WdSheu apout pelore
ihe eyes OIL ihe lrlghteheu passehgers'
ropes WeIe tnluNl 70 the caih ana the
mae passehs,Is cauent theih ana Wau-
ga thiuush tnu "a1er' "dis' uetp' 10
Places OF halely' me iauits were 700
lnucu lllshteneu 10 set Inlo tue water
anu WIZ p'aVeu vi wv 'eleer VI tle
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DAMAGE All VIVIAN
a big furniture store and large
clothing house were washed away at
Vivian as we're also about dozen
small dwellings in the lower portion
ol the lhlase, l"o ueau Doulcs, poti,
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t,lieg CoiS nv, SIu ~ VIII wi ."
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away az VIVIAN dIo %no'hsI az NoIul
fork 1IiiotloI p ,lp, 'i,.ce peisona are
IepuIleu " ""' U ,' uip"lleu I,var ti,e
latlSr pace ~ 'lle pIIlbes anu tIes,le
%ork nav peen We. mesne' away on tne