Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-07-25
Death and DesOlation Spread
Broadcast Over Southwest
Pennsylvania Through
ClOudbursts and Overflow
ing Rivers.
HUNDREDS FORCED TO
FLEE FROM HOMES
Daylight Finds Shivering WO-
men and Hungry Children
Gazing on Ruins of DWELL
ings While Men Work Des-
perately.
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Pittsburgh. July 25.-Dcath and
dcsolation spread broadcast over the
southwest counties OF Pennsylvania
yesterday and last night. through
clOudburets and oyerflowing streams.
Three score or more lives are the
toll while the damage To homes and
Industries cannot he estimated.
Fifteen lives were lost In Supcrba
mine No. 2. near unniontown. and
sevensy-five miners narrowly escaped
death. while from many other see
tions como reports OF lives lost In
the mountain torrents rushing into
mine slopes.
Hundreds OF families deacrtins
homes In mad rush for safety on
the mountainsides sought shelter be-
meath lmprpyiagd ehackn ana tents,
toward the construction OF which
every available piece of debris was
turned ~ account AZ daybrcak shiv-
oring women ana children gnzcd over
the scene Of dcaOlRtlon IN the upper
YoughlOgheny valley ana as the wa
terA rccoded upturnod dwellings. shat
tered buildings ana crumbled piles oi
mortar we're held In n coRglOmerated
mnaa by railroad bridge or trcstle or
the progress Of the debris had been
lmpedod by some largcr and ataunch-
or building.
n WIS long after midnight before
the waters began 60 roccde. Rain
had ceased falling some hours earlier
but the heavy precipitation aoln made
the usually dry beds OF mountain
streams verltabIe cataractH
Dunbar. near Connellsvilie. WAS in
undated. The waters ragged through
the main streets. upsettlng masslve
STRUCTURES and endangcring the lives
OF hundreds OF persons. A clondburst
was the cause.
The Turtle creek valley was visited
by a disastrous flood and the damage
IN enormous Crops were biOtted
from the earth.
with four connections into Union
town the Pennsylvania was unable to
get passengers into the city early to-
day. Several railroad bridges OF that
system and the Baltimore and Ohio
were torn from their foundations and
hurled into The Tneddened waters
Hundreds are homeless end thou
sands are suffering. Towns are cut
OFF from railroad, mail, telephone and
telegraph connections ana are IN
darkness and without fuel
From West Virginia no reports can
be secured by the weather buTeae for
almost every wire from that state II
down.
In the city the storm created havoc
but while the atreeta we're flooded and
traffic delayed, the damage vas not
heavy. n was In the coke regions
-. "A -
have beeh spent. Dnioatown. Dun
bar. Mont Braddock, Lemont. Com
nelIsvlIle, ali we're Inundated. The
greatest loss OF life WAS due TO the
flooding of the superba mine at Ev'
ans. nine miles from Unioutown. Fif.
toen miners are now accounted lost
tho known death OF a foreign minei
having Increased last nights total b,
one. Three aFe missing among ths
employees of f.em0nt mine No. I o.
tho w. q. Frick Coke company, who's
nlno-fuot vein undeEiies the superbi
workings,
This estimate will doubtless total al
the casualties from Wednesdays per
formance OF the elements.
Those WIN have penetrated th'
auporbn rhine come out with report
of almost indescrlbahio ruin.
"It looks IN there AZ II there hns
heen an explosion Of terrific force.
nRid Frank 1asgart, who accompanied
Nina Foreman GAMER. ''rhe wate
simply ripped up the tracks an
twisted and bens the rails in al sort
~ shapes. IN some places forming ~
almost impossible barrier. support
were torn away and the water nllo'
the headlines % the roof"
0anler said that the mine was com
pletoly filled 70 a paint about io
feet from the surface openlne
Workings oxtepd In various direction
about al00 ftst and about sixty Q
seventy ncrea vf OPENINGS are unde
water iNhlnh contains tho bodies o
those undttopuied for II chockn
linls a. lhe misc ofnre.