Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-09-03
FORTY PEOPLE ARE
LOST IN FLOODS
IN The EAST
LATER FIGURES FROM PENNSYL.
vANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA PAN.
HANDLE SHOWS APPALLING LOSS
OF LIFE.
MANY SURVIVORS
WITHOUT SHELTER

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept 3.-The mum
Der of fatalities arising from the
floods of Monday morning in western
Pennsylvania, the Panhandle of West
Virginia and eastern Ohio was in
creased to forty today when it be-
came known that John Demstel his
wife and two children were missing
from the ruins Of their home on Char
tiers Creek, near Canonsburg, Pa.
Food in some sections is scarce be-
cause railroad communication has
been cut off, but caravans of loaded
| wagons are making their way over
badly washed roads, bearing needed
supplies.
Sanitary officers in the western
Pennsylvania towns are already at
work and large forces of men are
. cleaning streets and buildings. In
various villages, entire families are
shoveling mud out of their houses.
The CHARTERS valley from Washing
ton, Pa, to McKees Rocks Pa, where
the little stream empties into the
Ohio river, is a scene of devastation
Ten thousand acres of growing corn
has been ruined Thousands of tons
of hay fioated away on the muddy
torrent. The damage to manufacture
ing plants will be very heavy.
Many cities spent Monday night in
n ri hnt n1n pt,n a
plants being flooded
Among the larger towns which suf- |
fered from the rise of the water were |
Beaver, Burgettstown,
Canonsburg and several smaller
places in the CHARTERS, Cherry and
Beaver valleys of western Pennsylva-
MIA, while in West Virginia, colliers
md the surrounding territory suf-
'ered a great loss.
The list of fatalities is as follows:
Golfers, w. Va, Is dead. /,
Cherry Valley Pa, 6 drowned.
Burgettstown, Pa, 4 drowned.
Avella, Pa, drowned
Canonsburg, Pa, { drowled.
Woodlawn, Pa, drowned
Wellsburg, w. Va, l drowned. I.
In the various localities attempts [
ire being made to take care of the
lomeless and to repair in part the
lamage caused by the floods. Crews |
If railroads arrived Monday night at ;
he different places where washouts
occurred and are hard at work today
'utting tracks in shape to restore /;
ratfic which has practically been at :
standstill, for 48 hours. ,
While great damage was done by i
he storm in eastern Ohio, no loss of
life has yet been reported. I
AS communication with afflicted {
ections becomes established, stories t
# heroic and thrilling rescues are $
numerous. One particular spectacu- !
ar feat was the rescue of Henry End {
er, his wife and two children of |
Avella in Washington county, by Rev. t
;. F. Heany, pastor of the Presbyte-
ian church there. |
The Endler home was crushed {
gainst railroad culvert, and the t
amily washed down stream. Three {
children were hurled on the bank and
escaped, while Endler, his wife, and t
wo other children, succeeded in catch &
ng hold of tree where they were
:
Mr.. Heany heard their cries and i
help. Getting rope, he f
astened it around his waist, and |
While six men held one end of it, {
le plunged into the torrent and made f
or the marooned family. Eight times t
le was washed past the food victims s
efuge and was pulled out only to try t
gain. Finally he reached the tree, {
he rope was fastened about Mrs. {
Indler and she was dragged through {
he torrent to safety. To return the J
ope to the marooned pastor and the t
Indlers it was fastened to a huge t
lock of wood, which was carried up
tream, and thrown in, so that it
you'd be carried into the tree. One a
y one the family was taken to safe
y, Pastor Heany being the last to be l.
ulled ashore.