New Ulm review., 1901-06-26

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ROANOKE va, June 24.-Ihere was
great deal OF excitement and anxiety
| created here when 1t was reported that
an awful Hood and cloudburst had
swept over the Elkhorn coal region in
| west Virginia This territory is near
| the Virginia line and5ls about 125 miles
west OF Roanoke and some % miles
| west OF Blueneids, w. Va. The region
| V1slbeu Dy the Hood IS said to be dev-9
astated and the Pocohontas coal fields
| are reported In ruins. Saturday night
- Pay hlSh hoslh Inc coal nelos, ana II
| spPoseu ,l .iide ene coai y! miners hau
- ene W Owns iiS ~ lneli ais lrict
| - ~ ,neii - iauils' anu enere - no
a." Aiiai,s y .iei,i were 1s ga si. ~,
- iioou eaiu .ia y iie y LIS staleu
| .nao one siealese uanage, 50 lars as Is
~ w. - ~ re } s'oie' W. = q.
| rivals Johnstown.
From the meager reports describing
the 1orce OF the storm at Keystone1t 1T
would appear that the damage rivals
1hat OF JehnstoWn and IS equal to the
daiVeston horror IN It's intensity, SO
Tar as the percentage OF population
LOST and property destroyed.
IL is stated that every building in
the town OF Keystone was demolished
OF carried away by the water. save one,
ana that barroom which stands on
hlgh nil. Ihe normal population of
/ keystone is about 1000 souls, and as it
was Saturday night there is no telling
now many miners had gone into the
town to swell it's population. It's es-
t1mated that 200 lives alone were lost
at Keystone
Awful Destruction.
| The food seems to have extended
over vast area of mountain coun-
try, and the hundreds of mountain
streams becoming swollen only
served to swell the Elkhorn river
until it had assumed large pro-
portions and carried destruction in
its wake. Railroad ties and tracks,
small buildings OF all descriptions,
trees, telegraph poles, huge powders
and every imaginable movable thing
That came within the sweep of this
mighty torrent of maddened waters
went down the mountainous district in
a seething, roaring mass of debris.
Dead bodies could be seen floating
along the valley by those who had
saiheu place OF sa1ety on the b.
nils. All day Saturday the rain fell
~ sheets, and 1t is evident that it it
| olo hot cease there would be a flood
ana ereat oestruction must result
/ from IT, Dut u was not until after dark
ness nad enVeloped the coal regions
.nat the great catastrophe was upon
one country ana was making a clean
sweep VI the valley 1or miles around.
assehsers In Great Peril
shortly after midnight Saturday
n1ght' 1t seemed as If the heavens
had opened their flood gates over
/ the town of Vivian, W. Va. Here
passenger train was caught in the
flood and the lives of the frightened
passengers were saved by the use of
ropes, which were quickly thrown
over from the coke ovens which skirt
the railroad yards at Vivian. The
passengers We're glad to catch the
ropes and willing hands dragged
them from the submerging train and
over the oven barricades to point
of safety.
| Deaths May Reach 900.
| A messenger. in walking over the
devastated district, came back and
reported having seen SO dead bodies.
There are supposed to be many who
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and possibly This number will be
swe1lsa ubs, f,,l,ar aa+oi,s ~
| tainable. Many people in this citv
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