The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-26

mo loNoWln1 are some OF the WcSt
Virginia victims whose bodies have been
recovered:
Joe E. White. white.
Nellie Smith. white.
Anna Smith, white.
Charles sheeley, white.
Mrs. Mccoy. colored.
Sam Poindexter, ooore8
John Ballard. eolored.
Betty Brown. oolored.
-- Trigg, colored.
Jacob Riflin. colored.
John Bannister. oolored.
Mother and babe. unknown.
Roanoke, vo., June a5.--The loss Of lIfS
as now estimated will not exceed itty. The
damage in the coal fields begins at Coal.
dale. which is fifteen miles west OF Blue.
fields, At that place great entertainments
supporting the railroad tracks have been
washed out.
AT Maybury from the train can be seen
1--WE houses upset and partly demolished
The coke ovens of the Cro2ler aud Hons.
ton companies are also. gone, bridges aud
cars are turned over aud some are demur
ished.
The Crozler boiler house was washed
out and the damage sustained Is 5000
The damage at Aouston ~ $4,000 AZ
the Uplande company, the boiler house aud
tpnle Is partly washed away. Along nero
the company houses have been moved and
destroyed Between here aud Kyle al
tracks are badly damaged, nearly ever
thing having exchanged positions with
the former creek heu.
pnny have been making and rlp-rappins
ever since the high waters of 1897 have
been levelled.
Heavy damage was done az Lyncnhurg TO
the tracks The North Forg operators
Sustained consideraule dginngo Al
| gona lost houses and tracks, but no esd
maze has as yet been made. Elkrdge lest
number OF houses, coke ovens and
treetles.
The power mouse ana tracks were WASH
e1 ont The tlpple Is also damaged. Loss
tiiecn Brior lost number OF houses aud
the tracks there were damaged.
At Rolfe the tipple and trestle were
damaged At the Roanoke operations the
damages To houses, trestles and upples
Al Arlington bridges are gone above and
below the tlpple and the loss Is estimated
III $1,000
Giiiams loss Is heavier in small houses.
ludiHr Ridge lost q number of houses
and The gtorchousc was damaged. Dr.
WorBman's house and Office was washed
Ihathlapdiy's loss Is between 5000 and $40.
Bctlom Greek $4,000
Tidowater lost heavily.
Al Keystone the creek banks are washed
out and debris is everywhere, Had 1t not
been for the iaplming OF three or four
buildings at the upper end near the suspen.
sion bridge no doubt the entire property or
the town would have been a total loss.
Just opposite Calhoun's, on the other siqe
of the creek. all the houses were entirely
ID, II "gutfng IT. most 4 Btiej :.
town. Tho property Is undermined and
badly damaged at Burke. The whole ~
on which the two tracks pass is ennTtls
gone The wagon bridge and the tracks on
fhn company eide are gone and Bank
building Is demolished. Many persons hah
narrow escapes with their llges, ana men,
women and children succeeded in escaping
through water waist deep, while ot lslS
were carried away. Mr. Abbott succeeded
In roscning man named Lockwood on
Mhn street by fastening himself 70 a. p S,e
he means az 4 rope and making 2 dive INTO
he water Just MS Lockwood Wis sinking
from View. 800 ha4,voet,
:, hlgut ~ ~ T,ct,nan There is no doubt
hat many persons lost their lives from DC
ing intoxicated. One white man sot on