The age-herald., 1901-06-26
First Reports of Loss of Life and Destruction of Property
 Were Exaggerated
TRAFFIC IS BEING RESUMED
The Number of Lives Lost in Flooded Districts is Now Placed at About Fifty-Trains Begin
 Running.

~ASb Nos' OQnC GO.-I He IO1lOW1nK are some of the West Virginia victims whose bodies have been recovered
 Joe White, white.
 Nellie Smith, white.
 Anna Smith, white. Charles Sheely, white.
 Mrs. Mccoy, colored.
 Sam Potndexter, colored
 John Ballard, colored
 Bettie Bowen, colored.
 - Trigg. colored.
 Jacob Rifiin, colored
 John Bannister, colored
 Mother and babe unknown.
 The loss of life as now estimated will not exceed fifty. The damage in the coal fields begins at Coaldale which is fifteen miles west of Bluefield.. At that place great embankments supporting the railroad tracks have been washed out At Mayberry from the train can be seen five houses upset and partially demol- ished.
 The delivery and coke oven tracks of the Crozer and Houston Company are entirely gone, bridges and all cars
  loaded. The Crozier boiler house was washed out and the damage sustained is $25, 5,O0O. The damage at Houston is $15,00O. At the Uplands Company the boiler house and tpple is partly washed away. Along here the coal company houses have been moved and destroyed. Between this op- eration and Kyle all tracks are badly damaged, nearly everything having ex- changed positions with the former creek bed
 Great fills which the railroads had been constructing and riprapping ever since the high water of 1897 have been leveled. Heavy damage was done at the Lynch burg operation to railroad rtra cks. The North Fork operations all sustained con siderable damage.
 Algoma lost houses and tracks and no reasonable estimate can yet be made
 Elk Ridge lost a number of houses, with coke ovens and trestles. The power house and its tracks were washed away. The tipple was also damaged. Loss $20,00o.
 Greenbrier lost a number of houses and their tracks were damaged.
 At Rolfe the tipple and trestle were damaged. At Roanoke operations the damage to houses and trestle, including track will amount to $7500.
 At Arlington bridges are gone above and below the tipple and the loss Is estimated at s1o,OoO.
 Gilliam's loss is heavy in small houses. Indian Ridge lost number of houses and the storehouse was damaged. Dr. Work mans house and office were washed away. Loss $12,000,
 Ashland's loss is between $S000 and Si0, oOo Bottom Creek $95,oO0; Tidewater lost heavily.
 At Keystone the streets are washed and debris Is everywhere. Had it not been for the tanning of three or four buildings at the upper end, near the sus- pension bridge, no doubt the entire prop erty of the town would have been total loss. Just opposite CaIhouns building on the other side of the creek all houses were entirely swept away including most of Belchertown. Property Is undermined and greatly damaged at Burke. The whole fill on which the low tracks pass through Keystone Is gone The wagon bridge and the tracks on the company side are gone and Banks building is de- molished.
 A man named Abbott succeeded in res cuing a man named Lockwood on Main street by fastening himself to a post by means of a rope and making dive into the swift water just as Lockwood was sinking from view.
 Eight bodies have been found between Burke and Eokman. There is no doubt that many persons lost their lives from being intoxicated One white man got on a section of the sidewalk and left town with his arms folded, remarking that he was going down below to lind ou' how everything was. His body was re covered. The loss at Peerless IS esu- mated at $30,eO0 and at Shawnee SSOeOo.