The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-03
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tonight The other are locked in
the ruins.
i speak for the people OF Austin"
ne said. The state OF Pennsylvania
owes ~ the bodies OF our loved ones.
or - hours they have been In the
RUNS. o much longer will the
commonwealth leave them there? The
state should have a thousand men
working here now
Smouldering flames in the debris
burst forth anew In the wreckage this
afternoon. but u Is not believed that
any bodies were burned.
May fave 10 Apply Torch.
Austin stands as a man against the
suggestion that II may be- necessary
10 put the torch 10 her ruln Feeling
runs high n should the health au.
'horities be forced 70 this extreme
measure there Is no f%oretelling the
result The Pennsylvania state con.
stabulary holds the town In its grasr
tonight. however. and the troopers
viii remain here until Commissioner
Dixon gives the word to go.
Across the street from the morele
NE insurance companies nailed their
shingles To n tree near n small shack
today. topping them with aInon,ro
within \ file OF weeping women
TOOL turns at recording their claims
A call for aid came to-day from
hood-swept Costello. three miles he.
low. Conditions there parallel the.
situation here. the distinction being
that n town Is much smaller and
less damaged b a Austin. while the
death list az Costello remains AZ two
IL Is believed that all others escaped
Arrest looters.
Eight men, charged with loo'inR The
ruins. were arraigned tonight before
Magistrate Johnson and committed 70
the Coudersport Jail for grand ilrv
action One man. a boarding house
keeper. complained today that his
home had beon robbed o. $500. an.
other. a store keeper. declared that
thieves had smashed his cash register
and stolen $500 4 little girl entered
a wrecked dwelling and left with jow.
cry valued AZ several hundred dol.
airs. h was stopped and relieved
by M State police 81 her loot
Shortly before ono O'Clock today STATE
commissioned Dixon issued au order mar
n"t"dF but officials AMI emrloyes OF
the state health department. other
State officials and newsuaper r,-rrs.
po~ndents should De ail~ved IN the Hood
1'"e TITS order was issued because
news - the disaster rat o,,r,-,.t
W Nf|".NH To austin from
hoth north ana south. Few ~ -tera-
sishtseers brought in ANYTHING 90 eat
ahu they have applied 60 the public com
mi~fafy IN such numbers fiat Hood vf--
TINS have been rowdef out. ana tu,
Tor the citif"n's committee the des.rv-
Ing would have bad 90 70 hungry
About the time the restrictive order
was issued o. trsinioad ~ siahtsa.r.
arrived but nobody was allowed % 20
near the ruins. except relatives or
friends 81 citizens.
This afternoon the state health DO.
partmeut sent men O. Heating summit
Win instructions o. 20 through trains
there and notify passenger that ouiv
tn'-e having business az Austin would
Re allowed % enter
Bromley wharton re-r.f.rv ,
stat" board % char.Uer. arI Herbert 81
Peek - philadelphia. special agent ~
tne children asa society are arr.~r-
ms fo care f0r children a-rfraref- ~
IN" Hood Fnr the present they wff b.
Int in receiving BONES and later placed
in prorcr permanent homes
I'm no case uHI arY n these r.-rr-.-
out in -aImatnuses rnIi Ar wiar-
another hundred men started work "a,
costello t1 meet fhr crew from ella.
place a hundred bridge men or. com.
STRUGGLING two bridges 90 replace rf.rf
Structures washed away
The railroad tracks must - replaced
to Eet nrerkIrz trains ir. and tie COM.
mift"e plans t1 work from either side p
l'e t-acEs ~itH Ere hope % recovering
any bodies rffI Orb f.e debris
Bread Line Formed.
\ bread Itne was formed f.r enc fret
ure Dol Austin to-day rrrtsfora relief
bad been extended o. fhe needy tr
~nefFhbors ana frIendr sluui..s today
were pIacad Dol the Off Fellows ban. ana
were Fuaried by state cc-statlfrrv FL.
l'fF were handed out only tne rama.
numnrr in fhe applicants family and
vhat street. they lived on rer1r. fr. fI.
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