The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-10-02

many have been entirely des'roS''
a would he found that a large pro
norton were those of children
The 500 men who had toiIea al, "',
in a heavy rain storm aoa'''o''1
their task when darkness appIo"''.t
with Isss than a score of the Dodie'
of the dead found.
Reports from Coctello ana p''"',
farther down Sinnemahonins s''"
more encouraging as the day au''"N
ed At Costello, while there was
heavy financial loss, ii was SAID '''''
no more than three persons "e
dead. Beyond that point no ia'a''
ties had been reported.
Warning Saves costelio'
The people of Costello received am
pie warning from Austin that the u'''
had broken, and although forty "
fifty houses were demolished, 1t is ue
lieved only three fatalities occurred
Austin saved the western part oil NoS
tello. 1t stayed the onrushing OIL V"'
current temporarily, during which the
alarm spread down the valley ana Inc
residents of Costello had time to liz,
TO the hills. The eastern side OF j''
village, however, was entirely o'
stroyed, rendering about 400 person
homeless.
The work of clearing up the deb'i
is under the direction Of Senator A.
Baldwin, who lost his father mothe.
wife and home in the flood ana wa
himself painfully hurt in escaping tn
disaster
Two Morgues Established.
Two morgues were established du'
ing the afternoon, one in the higI
school building, for the reception o
all bodies taken from the eastern slu
of the valley; the other is in the oil
Odd Fellows building for the bodle
taken from the wreckage on the ives
=, ern side.
. The humiliation of Austin came O
4 beautiful autumn afternoon. TN
, fine weather had attracted mau
the Younger element to a ball game
! a nearby town. and luckily they e
:. caped the fate of their many trlent
=. and relatives. Women We're about +.
streets for their Saturday aftono'
shopping, and these and the mere
ants who were selling them g0o
= were caught by the onrush OF "a''
almost before they had time to tht
of escape. There were small c,oN
+, amusing themselves also at Wovi
= picture theatres, which were swo
i, away by the water.
Upset Stoves Cause Fire.
ii The greatest loss of life by fire
20 Cured at a sharp turn of the vail
30 Just below Main street, where
debris was caught and compress
with terrific power by the circli
sweep of the flood. The wrecka
in of the business portion of the to-
m was carried to that point, and fr'
10. upset stoves caught fire. 1t is bell
40 ed scores of persons are buried
der from ten to twenty feet of wre
be age there, and the task of recoveri
re them will necessarily be difficult,
an In a drizzling rain, which la
changed to a beating storm, hundr,
,el of volunteers carried on the work
nd rescue today, while many, hysteri
va from the fate that had overco
he friends and relatives, viewed the m
he dy corpses, anxious and fearful
know if any among them were To-
ones. Fires still were burning bri
ly in some portions of the wreck
g this afternoon, but they had been
der control for several hours.
nd More than 500 persons We're Dire
( GU anu ulilOiN llNiillflE NfIF 'tlf ..
i1e here this afternoon when the or
II dam of the Bayless pulp and Pa
ino company, holding beck more than +
,ob 100000 gallons Of water went
tho Forty bodies have ben recovo'
md many of them so manned that
,od ignition is impossible. Governor q
oro err of Pennsylvania. has been as
for help and a relief train is on
way from Coudersport, IA miles av
Salient facts of the disaster are.
Dam burst one and a half m
north of town.
Water to the amount of 400. 300
- gallons rushed down on the town.
lies Fires follow bursting of natural
to- mains.
ker: Scores of persons caught benz
are debris and otherwise slowly crema
Over 1000 buildings wrecked