The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-07
Sixteen Persons Missing and Possibly
Entangled I'm the Wreckage
Caused by the Flood.
PROPERTY LOSS Is $1,50o,0oo
PROSPEROUS VALLEY TURNED INTO
A PLACE OF MOURNING.
Many Houses Destroyed by the Water
That Rushed Down Brush Creek
When the Dam Broke.

JEANNETTE, Pa. July 6-As a result
of the breaking of the oakford Park dam
yesterday twenty persons are known to be
dead. and sixteen are missing. The prop
erty loss in the valley will reach 81. 900.
and the distress is so great that outside re-
lief will have to be asked for.
Below are the names of the identified
dead and missing thus far reported. 9th
ers whose names have not been learned are
thought to. be buried beneath the piles of
debris that are strewn everywhere, or have
been carried with the rushing waters of
the Monongahela river.
Identified Dead
LUCY CRUM
GERTRUDE KEEFER.
CATHERINE DoNNELLY.
JOSEPH BROWN.
SISSY BIRD.
EVA WIGGINS.
JOSEPH OBERLE. of Indianapolis.
JOHN M'CANN.
MARY GILLESPIE.
ANNIE GILLESPIE.
ALBERT BROWN.
JOHN FLEMING.
JAMES WESTWOOD.
JOSEPH wEIGHTMAN.
MRS. WILLIAM NEGAR.
THREE CHILDREN OF MRS. WILL
LIAM NEGAR.
HENRY FINK.
MRS. CYRUS SHRADER.
The Missing
MARY GRIFFITH.
KATE GONGAwARE.
JACOB ANDERSON.
TWO SMALL SONS OF JACOB AMBER
SON.
MARY DAVIS
DANIEL BRIGHT
MRS. CATHERINE FINK.
MARTIN PRESSLER.
JOHN INQUIRE.
GEORGE WILLIAMS.
ALEX. VICTOR
CURTIS MOORE.
SAMUEL vOGLE.
ALFRED SIPE
From happy, prosperous, contented val
ley this region in a single day has been
transformed into a great household of
mourning. Homes have been wrecked and
dreds of willing hands pulled away the
great piles Of debris in the search for the
missing residents of the valley. From time
TO time the searchers would find a mutilated
body. All during last night and to-day
volunteers searched along the path of he
torrent.
While many men searched among the
debris for the dead, others called the citizens
of Jeannette together to provide means of
relief for, the suffering residents of the VAL
ley. Dozens of families had been driven
from their homes and were thrown on the
charity Of the town. In a few minutes 81 200
was raised. 1t was found, however, that
this sum would not be sufficient Jeanette
wanted to care for its owr need and could
have done so had not the merchants and
business men generally been heavy losers
1t was found that 5000 was needed from
outside sources, and the people of Jeanette
trust their friends throughout western
Pennsylvania will respond promptly.
In Jeanette to-day business was almost
at a standstill. Many of the stores had
been flooded and many Of the workshops
were in the path of the torrent. To the
throng of idle citizens were added great
crowds OF strangers, who came from all
over western Pennsylvania to see what had
happened. number of thieves also came
to make profit out of the morbid crowd
day at the pile of wreckage heaped against
the railroad embankment east of town and
scattered over the bottom land. Ii was here
that the greater number of uncovered
bodies was supposed to be buried. During
the night men with lanterns picked their
way over the wreckage looking for bodies.
When morning came large force of volun-
teers went TO work and a systematic search
began. The workmen turned over every bit
of wreckage and peered beneath IL. BY
evening the men said that they had made a
thorough search and no more bodies re-
maineG In the debris.