Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-07
SWEPT BY THE FLOODS.
Cloudburst Caused Much Damage In
Pennsylvania.

pennsylvania.
LATROBE, Pa June IA storm assum-
ing the proportions of a cloudburst swept
Chestnut Ridge, near Boggaley. early to-
day.
The bridge spanning Nine-mile run was
carried away and the debris forming
dam, completely inundated the town. which
lies between spurs Of the ridge. Clad in
their night robes the women and children
were rescued on improvised RATS.
Torrents OF water from the mountain
threaten the destruction of the Boggaley
reservoir and the people are camping ON
the hills.
BUTLER Pa, June 7.-Continuods thun-
resulted in the greatest flood In this sec
ton in half a century. Between Boydstown
and North Hope the downpour resembled
a cloudburst. Five feet of water is pour
Ing over the sluceway OF the Boydstown
dam and the water at noon was within q
few inches of the top of the dam. Kearns
Meadow. north OF Butler, is covered with
nine feet of water. The Kearns bridge is
stopped the machinery in the pumping sta
ton Of the Butler Water Company.
Work has also been suspended in the
Davis lead WORKS. Hamilton bottle works,
part of the standard steel works and a
number OF smaller factories.
Thousands Of donars' worth Of lumber
have been washed away from the Purvis
Cornelius and Willie Wick lumber yards
and farmers In the creek bottoms have
suffered immense damage to crops. Five
feet of water surround houses In the lower
were taken from their dwellings Every
railroad entering the city is disabled by
the water. and no mail trains have reached
Butler today. Long stretches of tracks
are reported to have been washed out.
Hooversville Threatened by Flood.
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, June IA cloud
burst at Hooversville. Somerset county
eighteen miles north Of here, early today
caused Stony Creek to rise suddenly here
and portions Of the lower part Of the city
are under water. From $50 o'clock to b
am. Stony creek rose seven feet, and
from then until noon 1t kept going up so
fast that at the Franklin street bridge.
connecting the city with Kernville, where
the creek narrows, 1t registered eighteen
feet
many houses. and business In the vicinity or
Franklin bridge has been suspended. Near
this point there is a large tenement which
housed about twenty families. owned by
p. ]. Fearl The waters made such inroads
around 1t that Chief of Police Mullen has
ordered the people to vacate the premises
for fear the building viii be wrecked by
the food.
1SAdHo ain, d pleasure TeSOTt, Two miles
from the city. has been practically washed
out of existence. Fortunately the flood
came at a time when the park was deserted
and no lives were lost. The only fatal
ity resulting from the food, so far reported,
Is the killing of an unknown woman, who
was struck by train while standing on
the famous old stone bridge watching the
high water.
The crest of the flood was reached at
noon and reports from towns above say
that the waters are subsidins rapidly. The
damage along Stony creek Is estimated at
100000. At Hooversville an unoccupied
frame schoolhouse was swept away and
county bridge was washed from its founda-
lions.
Today's flood Is said to have been the
worst since the disaster of May 81, 1889.