Las Vegas optic., 1912-07-25
MINERS TRAPPED AT WORK
WATER RUsHEs DOWN HILL
SIDES AND BROWNS TOLL
ERs UNDERGROUND.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IMMENSE
RAILROADS ARE HEAVY sUF-
FERERs AS WELL AS THE
FARMERS.


lation spread broadcast over the
southwest counties of Pennsylvania
today and last night through cloud
bursts and overflowing streams.
Three score or more lives are the
toll, while the damage to homes and
industries cannot be estimated.
Fifteen lives we're lost in Super
ba Mine No. 2, near Uniontown. Sew
enty-five miners narrowly escaped
death, while from many other sections
comes reports of lives lost by the
mountain torrents rushing into mine
slopes.
Hundreds of families, deserting
homes in a mad rush for safety on
the mountainsides, sought shelter e
meath improvised shacks and tents, to-
ward the construction f which ev-
cry available piece of debris was
turned to account. At daybreak shiv-
ering women and children gazed over
the scene of desolation in the upper
Youghiogheny valley, and as the
waters receded upturned dwellings,.
shattered buildings and crumDled
piles of mortar were held in a COR
glomerated mass by railroad bridge
or trestle, or the progress of the deb
ris had been impeded by some la1g-
er and stauncher building.
1t was long after midnight before
the waters began to recetle. Rain
had ceased falling some hours earlier,
but the heavy precipitation soon
made the usually dry beds of the
mountain streams yeritable cataracts.
Dunbar, near Connelsville, was In
undated The waters ragged through
the main streets, upsetting massive
structures and endangering the lives
of hundreds of persons. A cloudburst
was the cause. Tue Turtle Creek val
ley was visited by disastrous flood
and the damage is enormous. Crops
were blotted from the earth. Rail
road traffic through a great territory
is demoralized. With lour connections
into Uniontown, the Pennsylvania
was unable to get passengers into the
city early today Sever9l railroad
bridges of that system and the Balti-
more and Ohio were torn from foun-
dations that SEEMED impregnable and
hurled into the maddened water Hun
dreds are homeless; thousands are
suffering, towns are cut off from rail-
road, mail, telephone ana telegraph
communication and are in darkness
and without fuel From West Virgi-
MIA no reports can be secured by the
weather bureau, for almost every
wire from that state is down.
In the city the storm created havoc.
but while streets were flooded and
traffic delayed, the damage was not
heavy. 1t was In the coke regions
that the fury Of the storm seemed to
have been spent Uniontown, Dun
bar, Lemont, Mount Braddock. Con
nelsville, all were inundated The
greatest loss of life was due to the
flooding of the Superba mine at Ev
ans, nine miles from Uniontown. Fif-
teen miners are now accounted lost,
the known death of a foreign miner
having increased last nights total
by one. Three are missing among the
employees of Lemont Mine No. 1 of
the H. G. Frick Coke company, whose
nine foot vein underlies the Superba
workings.
This estimate will doubtless total
all the casualties from Wednesdays
performance of the elements. Those
who have penetrated the Supelba
mine come out with reports of almost
indescribable ruin 1T looks in therd
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