The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-14
.CLOuDBURsTs CAUSE RUIN
Damage Mills, Homes and Crops
in c~onemaugh Valley.
hiIlea in Vain Effcrt to Save Her
Baby HurIs Child From Track
-crnshed by Engine.

youngstown. Pa. Thunder mowers
electric storms and heavy downpours
Oh rain that had prevailed throughout
western Pennsylvania during the en-
tire week eliminated in cloudbursts in
Cambria, Westmoreland, Somerset and
Butler counties that caused the rivers
and creeks to overflow, flooding the
streets in many communities and dis
seminating u general flood scare. Early
reports indicated that the damage
would be great. Probably $50,O00 will
cover all losses sustained in the Sec
lions affected.
The greatest damage was in Hoov.
ersville, Somerset County, eighteen
miles from this city. Here a veritable
cloudburst caused Stony Greek to rise
seven feet in an hour and a half. The
waters reached the first floor of many
dwellings, and all the factories in the
low lying section of the town were
obliged to suspend operations. Cellars
were flooded and a number of streets
were under water for a time, but no
casualties are known to have resulted.
The Hooversville schoolhouse was
washed away from its foundation.
Island Park, q summer resort. was
destroyed by the waters, but as the
flood came at an hour when there were
no pleasure seekers, the loss is confined
to the property of the park manage
ment. The entire loss in this section is
estimated at $25,000.
The Conemaugh River, made famous
in the history of the Johnstown flood
Of 1889, swollen by the %outpouring
from the Stony Creek section, began to
rise rapidly and caused somewhat of Il
scare in this city. The streets along
the river bank were soon inundated
and mills and factories were obliged to
suspend.
Heroine of an instant's tragedy, Mrs.
Annie Roblitzki made Il marvellous eff.
fort to save her child from death, but
although she prevented the infant from
being crushed under an engine that
ground her to pieces, the little n was
killed by the force with which she
flung it from her, and it's body a mo-
ment after was engulfed in f1ood-swotr
len Stony Greek.
The woman was close to the middle
of the famous stone bridge over that
stream, watching wreckage from a
flood that did much damage i'll HOov-
ersville, Butler, Latrobe, Baggaley and
other places, when a Pennsylvania fly
er Numbered over the structure. HuS-
band and friends called to her to fee,
but the roar of the rushing waters evil
IDENTIFY drowned their voices as we'll as
the noise of the approaching train, and
the vibration of the track must have
been her first warning.
She faced the express only in time to
see she hadn't a chance to escape. One
cry broke from her. Then, raising her
baby, six months old, high above her
head, she hurled it from her. Her
scream was swallowed in a shrill blast
of the whistle as the engine cut her
down. Roblitzki tried to dash toward
the spot, where he, too. surely would
have net death, but friends restrained
him.
At Latrobe, Westmoreland County,
the streets were flooded and merchants
we're obliged to remove their stocks.
Baggaley, a mining village in a gully
neal Nine-Mile Run, was for a time i'll
a perilous position. So rapidly did the
water rise that many people were tax
en- from their houses On RATS.