The age-herald., 1901-06-24
THREE HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN
 FLOOD WHICH SWEEPS MINING
 DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA
The Little Keystone Sken from the Map by the Angry Waters from Several Swollen StreamsMany Railroad Bridges Swept Away and Traffic is Completely Blocked Parallel to
 the Johnstow Disaster Several Years Ago.

day and night Officials are on the ground pushing the work of constructing telegraph lines and are building the road and hope to be able to communicate with both the storm-stricken districts by noon Monday. Nothing whatever has been heard from the section of country between Vivian and Williamson other than that the Tug river Is reported as be- ing entirely out of its banks and higher than ever known by the oldest inhabi- tant
 The town of Welch, county seat of Me Dowell County, necessarily must have suffered seriously, and number of the large lumber plants situated along the banks of Tug river no doubt are entirely washed away.
 At Keystone 1t is known that sixteen residents on the north side of the stream lost their lives and at least fifty of those living on the south or lower side were drowned.
 At Burke, suburb of Keystone, a number are missing and they are reported dead. It is now certain that the total list of the dead from one end of the Elkhorn valley to the other will reach 200. At least 300 mine mules were drowned. Several mines are reported flooded. On the North Fork branch of the Nor rendered homeless and tonight are camp ing in the mountains. Only one of the ten collieries located on this branch es- caped-the Ashland. it being located at the head of the stream
 The McDowell Coal Company lost twelve residences. The Roanoke Company lost their boiler-house, and the 10O-horse pow CT boilers were swept four miles down the l stream. The Louisville Company's store house is a wreck and the stock of goods a | total loss.
 houses were swept away as well as the handsome residence of the company s | physician Twenty-Five houses are | damned together in one large mass of broken timbers and debris.
 At the Gillian Company's colliery the | powder house and fourteen houses are 1 demolished At Indian Ridge the com pany's store was destroyed and all the stock lost. The residence of Captain c. | ioolSloIu, lHo ihdudBef, IS WleCheu 1iSo. | The North Fork track is nearly all washed away, all the trestles being gone l except one.
 In the Elkhorn Valley it is estimated | that the loss to the railroad and coal in- terests will exceed two million dollars. Out of twelve miles of main line double track. only one mile remains and all the | bridges are gone
 | The Cosier Company lost a thousand | horse power electric plant and many buildings and coke ovens, the whole being valued at s5o.0OO The Teirney in- terest, consisting of four collieries, will stand to last lose $65,000. There are over twenty collieries whose loss is very | great
 Later advices from the CIinch Valley division confirm the reported drowning | of ten persons.
 | A family named Hook. living near the l river close to the Pounding Mill station on the Clinch Valley division, were all drowned, six perishing.
 Bodies are being recovered many miles down the stream where they were washed ashore. The latest reports say | that the lower end of the coal valley be- tween Vivian and Gray suffered severe ly. Fully million dollars has been done to coal and lumber interests.
 Three daughters of Coal Inspector Dinsmore are reported drowned at Key | stone