Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-25
AWFUL SCENES
In the Flood Swept Sections
Of West Virginia.
Bodies Being Rapidly Recovered, but
No Estimate Can Be Made.
Thousands Of Homeless In Camps Damage
Will Be Several millions.

Cincinnati. Ohio. June PA special
from Eluefield. w. Va. says:
Reports from the devastated flood
district in the Pocahontas fiat top re-
sion say bodies are being rapidly re
covered and identified. but no reliable
estimate can yet be made Of the num-
Ter OF lives lost.
l: will be several weeks before rail-
road traffic can be resumed and prob
ably longer before the mines will be
in operation. About 20 collieries and
coke plants We're damaged from $4,000
to $25.G0O. The work Of rescue is be-
ing prosecuted with vigor.
Thousa nds of homeless persons are
camping in the mountains. Their dis
tress is augmented by anguish over
missing children and friends whose
fate is unknown. The bodies of John
Lewis twhite), Ira &. Neffeidld and
Hungarian mother and her babe have
been recovered
\ grave yard was overlooked and
he corpses disintened by the torrent,
rtoated away in all stages of decay.
4 tunnel several miles beyond Wv
ian was cleared Of the track from end
20 end. The damage to the railroad
company viii be in the neighborhood
of 4 ,0oo,0G0. Damage to the coke plants
and coal mines probably will be double
that sum.
All stores. lumber camps and bust
| ness houses in the Elkhorn We're heav-
lily damaged and in many instances
| destroyed.
Gu; Of the 200 and odd estimated lost
less than score of bodies have been
recovered and identified. The recovered
dead in the Elkhorn valley SO far are:
William Teiggend and wife, whose
home hoated away before they were
aware of their danger.
Martha Morgan, white. who became
so excited that she jumped into the
water and was lost.
Mrs. Mccoy, a colored women, her
| daughter. Mrs. Nellie Smith, and
granddaughter. Annie Smith
sam PoindeXter.
John Ballard.
j. Bell Brown.
Unknown mother and four children.
all COlored.
This morning hundreds Of men took
up the work of rescue and repair. Rail
| road shopmen. conductors. engineers
| and men Of all callinSs laid down their
work to aid. while every availab Bile ma n
on the Norfolk & Western system was
| rushed to the scene. Appeals to con-
meeting railroads for wrec king crews
and men have been responded to.
Residents of keystone We're saved
by 4 telephone message appraising
them OF the coming of the flood and
they went to places Of safety. Losses
estimated at 100000 ensued to the bus
mess houses.
The Crane Creek branch of the Nor
folk & Western, which has been re-
Gently graded. has been destroyed for
seven miles.
The Big Four mines are flooded and
The delivery tracks destroyed. The loss
of life at that point cannot b. learned
only one man has reached n point of
communication. His journey was one
Of great hardship. He swan the river
thee times and arrived more dead
than alive.
SIX building gangs We're hurried to
the scene by the telegraph companies
An electric light car has been obtain
ed. 1t is equipped with complete cleo
trio lighting plant and apparatus and
will he brought from HaEerstown by
Il special train so that work can be
prosecuted at night.