The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-24
FEARFUL LOSSES
IN TWO SMALL TOWNS

Bluedelds. June 23-Details OF the
great POcahontas Hood are hard to OBJ
tain, owing to the inaccessibility of
the mining district where the fury and
4 havoc OF the angry waters caused the
most appalling loss of life and prop
erty. a Keystone the water began to
rise at O'Clock Sunday morning and
by IL O'CLOCK The food had spent. its
fury and at least twO-thirds Of the
little city had been washed away or
demolished.
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, We're
drowned AT Burke, a suburb of Key
stone, a number are missing and eight
are reported dead 1t is now certain
that the t0ta1 list Of the dead from one
viii reach 200.
A full list of the names of the vic
TINS cannot be ascertained at this
time. Hundreds are missing having
taken to the mountains to escape the
fury of the food. The list Of the dead,
SO far recovered and identified that it
has been possible TO obtain at this time
is:
John Lewis and Martha Morgan,
white
sam Poindexter,
BETTE Brown,
John Ballard,
Annie Smith
Laura Mccoy,
I Nellie smith, ar colored. all Of Key
stone.
Ivan soHsky, white. and a coIored
mother and four children, at AlgOma-
I Az least 300 mine mules were
drowned.
Several Mines Flooded.
But little damage is done to the mines
( proper as the drifts We're high up the
mountain sides. Several mines, how
ever, are reported flooded, but il is inn
possible 10 ascertain the extent OF the
damage. On the north fork branch Of
the Norfolk & Western, which is five
and a half miles long. there was no
loss Of life, as far as known, but hun
dreds were rendered homeless and to-
night are camping in the mountains.
( The damage to property on this branch
! is very heavy. only one of the ten coll
! lieries located on this branch escaped,
! the Ashland it being located at the
Z head Of the stream. The Mcdowell
; Coal company lost twelve residences;
z the Roanoke company lost their boiler
house and the 1GO-hOrse-pOW boilers
4 were swept four miles down the
4 stream.
is a wreck, and the stock of goods a
. total loss
/ At Rolfe. a large number Of miners
I houses were swept away, as well as the
.
/ pbysician, Twenty-Five houses are
( damned together in one large mass
+ Of broken ttn1bers and debris
A. the Gillian company S cohiery the
power house and fourteen houses are
! demolished. At indian Ridge the coJn-
/ try store was completely demolished
+ ana the stock lost The residence OF
/ Captain G. p BctsfOrd, the manager,
is wrecked also. The Northfork track
/ is nearly ali washed away with all
the trestles Being gone except one. In
the ErkhOrn valley II Is estimated thai
the loss 70 the railroad and coaa inter-
ests VIII exceed Sz,OOOO06. out OF
twelve miles OF main line, double track,
I Only one mile remains. and all the
z bridges are gone. Some OF the bridges
I with the heaviest masonry and foun-
dation resist the force of the flood
J The COsfer company, one of the large
! est .1perato tors. lost a 1.O00-horse-
power electric plant anc many build
Z ingS and coke ovens. Their loss is said
I to be $50 000 The Houston company is
damaged some $50. 900. The Tierney in
+ terest, consisting of four collieries
loses heayily Many niles Of tracks
beading to coke ovens and, mines are
/ gone. N some instances mine 1Ocomo-
tives and cars have been swept Tor
miles down the stream sixteen hun
dred laborers have been rushed to the
Z scene TO work on repairs, and It Is eX-
pected that complete communication
will be established before noon tomor-
row
late adviees form the Clinch Valley
division confirm the reported drown
ing OF ten persons
A family named Hook. liviag near
( the river close to Pounding Nil sta
ton on the CEnch alley division
were ali drowned. six perishing-
Z A pathetfo. story Is old OF a Hungar-
ian family at Keystone. The father
was at work in the mines, and when
the alarm was given did rot reach the
DRIFT mouth until the town was partly
Inundated He ms,de his way to the
cabih -ffhere his wife and newborn
babe Were lying helplesT. lie tried to