Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-27
CAN TAKE CARE
OF THEMSELVES.
West Virginia viii Look After Her
Flood Sufferers.
G0Y.WHITE TO THE PUBLIC,
He Puts the Dead nt Fluy Others Put
it NJ a Hundred Distressing
Scenes Presented.

Charleston, W. VA June 26.-Goy.
White today issued the following
To the Public--Adylces received from
personal representatives sent to Key
stone and the flooded district in the
Flat Top region are to the effect thai
the loss Of life viii not exceed fifty
and that there is no distress which
cannot be provided for by the homL
people and no need Of outside help Of
any kind, The coal operators and oth-
er citizens are, as Cashier Edwin Mann
OF Bluehclds puts IT, plenty able to
take care Of the people" and desire to
do SO.
The offers Of help from all over the
country have been generous and are
highly appreciated, If it should de-
velop that aid from the outside Is
needed | will take occasion to inform
the people Of West Virginia Of that
fact. In any event, | feel sure that
the citizens Of this state viii be will
ing and able to supply any aid That
may be needed
A. b. WHITE, Governor.
STORIES OF RESCUE.
Williamson, w. Va, June 26.-There
is no longer any doubt that the ilst
Of dead, the result Of the recent HOOD,
viii exceed 100. Parties reached here
this morning from the u/er end OF
the flooded district brlng.Lg the llrsl
authentic information received rom
the scene Of disaster
Tile section visited by the flood was
thicliiy settled, but as the population
consists chiefly OF miners who were
al work at the time The large ma
iorlty OF the dead are women ana
children, and thrilling stories of rescue
are told
AT Eckman a mother climbed a huge
pillar of railway treste holding to her
breast her only child Her home was
washed away but the mother ana
chlld were saved. Fifteen persons are
sand 10 have been drowned at Eckman.
At keystone probably thirty per-
sons perished. In one instance per
sons fed to an island and climbed
small trees, only TO be swept away
fifteen minutes later by the tide,
which was filled with debris of every
kind
on Dry Fork the loss Of llfe Is great.
Bodies are scattered all along the
stream. many of which win never be
en- saloons at Keystone
gere washed away four lives being
last I'm one Of them. Or Hatiield's
4 l.
away. as formerly reported ana MS
family Is safe.
Al Brooke the loss NJ property Is
also severe but only three lives are
said to have been lost there. the
region from Ennis TO DaVV forty-three
miles. II COMPLETELY In ruins. Hundreds
Of mine mules can be 9een IN heaps
intarmlngled with human bodies.
Near Davy horse was found
lodopd In n drift and human BODY
danglrp from the saddle, the mans
foot having huno IN the st'rrnp
4 report has Just reached here that
afteer bodies are LODGED IN a drift at
Hatfield tunnel, twenty miles east OF
this city
No bodies have been recovered TO-
dav. one of the larroet heaps cf DRIFT
wac set on Gre last nirht b. some M
known friend of the nuhllc health. In
this pile NJ debris II 70 estimated there
were AZ least TWENTY-FIVE bodies. The
heap Is now a pile Of smoulderlng ashes.
HUNDREDS STARVING.
Lager, w. Va, June 26.--Early this
morning an Associated Press CORE
spondent reached this point, which is IN
the central part Of the northern section
of the scene Of Saturdays flood. Here
Dry fork enters Tug river The loss of
life here is even greater than az hrsl
reported. II Is safe to say that 100 dead
will not be far amiss. The inhabitants
are desolate and hundreds are starving
There is no way of conveying pro-
visions along the Dry fork of Tug river
save on mulchack This afternoon, In
one drove. twenty mules loaded with
provisions made the start across the
mountains 10 Bradshaw, fifty miles
away, where IL Is said many families
have had no food since Saturday
At Panther a large county bridge was
swept away, number Of cabins 0ccu-
pied by lumbcrmen and two large COM
were also swept away. one
Of the latter iloated down the river Ike
a steamboat, and was not wrecked un-
IN turning a bend half a mile below.
Forty box cars were carried away from
sidngs hereabouts. The current was so
swift that all the soil Is washed from
many small bottoms to bedrock Even
the graves Of the long dead were robbed
by the raging torrent
Near here last evening In n pile Of
drift was discovered a coffin. II Is sup
posed that II came from the graveyard
below Eckman, which, It Is said, was
about half cut away by the tide leaving |
exposed many skeletons.
Just 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 re-