Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-06
TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED
Many Foreigners aud Not Identified
PEG pie 500 Excited 10 Talk OF
Flood Thrilling Rescues.

The people are still too excited TO
talk OF the food and 1t is with difficulty
a complete list Of dead and injured can
be secured
II Is believed that more bodies went
down IN the flood, but the ramors are
so numerous that they cannot all be
run down.
Several persons are reported as MISS
Ing from their homes along the stream
and many anxious parents, almost fran
| nc with fear, traversed the streets all
night searching for their lost children.
| Up until an early hour this morning
children have been found. but a few
are still missing who may have been
| discovered
Stories Of thrilling Tescues are heard
on all sides and many acts of bravery
| are reported, the heroes being persons
| who risked their lives TO save others.
| one man whose name could not be
| learned was seen by several persons to
| make a hard effort to rescue woman
| presumably his wife, shortly after the
| Hood hit with the waiting room. The
| man was IN an apparently safe position
|
| TO get to the woman he lost his hold and
| both We're swept away with the current
| and probably lost
A rescuing party was organized by Or.
M. Il. Ffeshwater and Joseph Holman
Immediately after the wall Of water had
| passed, DR.. Freshwater states this
| morning that they had rescued fully $3.50
persons who had been thrown into the
| water by their houses being overturned.
Many houses were seen by them float.
ing down the stream INSIDE hown side.
| ways and in every possible manner
Mrs. Shrader, one OF the victims,
| was asleep in her home at the time the
flood started, When Mrs Schrader
| awoke she tried TO get out OF her home.
| As She opened the front door In view OF
score OF people who were watching,
| the water rushed In and the impris-
| oned woman, old as she was, saw her
| peril, rushed to the second floor Of her
| house. Then her house was swept from
| It's foundation and taken down with the
| swiring current. When the house was
Heating In midstream nearly opposite
| the Pennsylvania station, persons who
were watching the floating residences,
saw the shingles OF the roof suddenly
| fly on With piece Of board the fren-
zied woman, with death staring her in
the face, was trying to get out on the
| roof In the hope OF escaping.
Her strength failed her however and,
| with upllfted hands and In all PROBABLE
ity prayer on her lips, Mrs. Schrader
| went TO her Watery grave. Shortly ar
| ter the house was broken up by others
| hitting II, the body Of the drowned wo-
man was seen 10 float out into the
| stream, but despite all efforts to rescue
| her. she went down with the other de-
bris.
Four Of the members Of the family
| Of William Nlggas, a Polish coal miner,
were drowned in the flood.
At the time OF the flood the father
was visiting neighbor He attempted
! to reach his home to rescue his family,
but failed. The house was swept down
| the stream at a swift rate. As the
house was rushing on II was struck by
heavy timbers. and the occupants,
seven in number were hurled into the
water. Three Of Niggas' children were
rescued, but Mrs, Nggas, with Polly.
aged Z, Josephine, aged 8, and the baby,
| Frank, aged 2. were drowned. Their
bodies have not been found.
Midway between the Pennsylvania
railway station and the Pennsylvania
culyert along the Brush creek bank,
stood the house Of Frederick Dieckhe-
man, "A two-st0ry frame structure. The
family barely escaped to the second
story and finally to the garrett Here
they tried to save some Of the people
who iloated by them. but all their of-
forts went for naught,
Fortunately this house withheld the
~ 10. al oil a..
bers Of the household Were saved
Lying down in the debris at the
Pennsylvania culvert Is the body OF
James Nestwood, 80 years OF age.
bartender who worked at the Weunie
hotel, Jeannette. When the water in
undated the cellar Of the Westwood
house, the father went into the house
and he has not been seen since. The
body OF George Wightman, who was
Killed by lightning was today hshed
out OF the water by his companions.
Almost together with The dam In Oak.
ford park. the Fort Pitt dam, north Of
this place gave way carrying wide
destruction along the valley " Bull
creek, which emptles into the larger
stream OF Brush creek in the lower
part Of jeanette
The Fort Pitt dam serves to supply
the Fort Pitt glass works at that point.
Il was rebuilt about eight years ago,
when II was torn down in the same
manner as yesterday. To add 20 the
alarm caused by the disaster In Oak
ford park, II was reported this morning
that the big reservoir of the West
Moreand Water company at Rada-
baugh, about mile from this town.
was likely to give way and that the
people In the vicinity had taken fright
and fed to the uplands.
The reservoir at Radabaugh covers
about 10 acres and supplies Greensburg.
jeanette essen, Manor and other
points further down the valley.
quite crowd Of people still linger
OF the Pennsylvania station culyert.
which Is blocked with debris. under
which 1t is expected the bodies OF six
unfortunates will be found.
All Is IN readiness for the search for
the bodies, but Il is believed that moth
ing can be accomplished without the
aid Of dynamite, as the houses, stables
ami outhouses and other debris are
wedrcd in so tightly by the culvert that
human effort toward dislOdging Il will
prove Of no avail.
The audiences OF the disaster. to-
gether with the attendant features, was,
indeed. pathetic. Yesterday afternoon
most OF the people were attracted to
the park by the children's orchestra, a
juvenile musical organization, which
held It's Open-air concert The band
was playing when the storm came up,
Many Of the young musicians, who were
girls, hurried and grabbed their instru-
meuts and ran into the building used
as roller coaster. 10 the laughing
gallery and the tent covering the mer-
ry-go-round. An these buildings. with
the exception OF the roller coaster
building and a portion OF the merry-go-
round were swept away.
The exact number Of persons who
were seeking shelter In the buildings
from the storm Is not known. Witnesses