The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-09-05
TWENTY-FOUR DIE
IN FIERCE STORM
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern
Ohio mad Panhandle Swept.
SEVERAL TOWNS IN RUINS
Crops Are Destroyed, Bridges Swept
Away, Railroads Tied up by
Washouts, Wire Service
Badly Demolished.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. "a vivid
lightning display that continued Tor
more than an hour and that seemed
to rend the heavens, was followed tY
the worst storm of rain that ever de-
vastated western Pennsylvania, east
ern Ohio and parts OF the Panhandle
district OF West Virginia. For nearly
five hours the rain fell In torrents
Cloudbursts filled fertile valleys
with raging rivers that annihiiateo
crops and carried away bridges ana
railroad tracks. Lightning struck III
scores OF places. Quiet streams rose
in an hour to become grim agents OF
destruction. Railroad traffic practic-
ally stopped and wire traffic Is para
lived throughout most OF the region.
Dead Number Twenty-four.
When reports from all points were
compared "a are known to be dead
This list of fatalities will probably
be much larger for In many remote
bamIets in the wide area scourged
by the food there will be no com
munication for days. Golfers, w. Va
is practically wiped out. Cherry val
ley, w. Va, Is in ruins. The towns
OF Lgella, Canonsburg, washington
Burgettstown and a dozen smaller
places in the extreme western end or
PENNSYLVANIA are inundated. At New
Philadelphia Steubenville and other
Ohio towns, near tie Ohio river, the
damage wrought was heavy.
Reports from points in the flooded
district give the deaths as follows:
Cherry Valley, Pa, six drowned
Golfers, w. Va, nine drowned.
Burgettstown, Pa. one drowned.
Avella, Pa, three drowned.
Canonsburg. Pa, four drowned.
Pittsburg, one killed by lightning.
The Panhandle division Of the
Pennsylvania railroad has ceased
train operations. Fourteen miles OF
track were washed away near Col
Hers. Three bridges we're carried
down stream. For miles along Racoon
creek the road bed is submerged. 1t
will be a fortnight before traffic can
be resumed here.
Ball Team is Stalled.
The Pittsburg baseball team com
Ing from Cincinnati, got stalled at
Coshocton, O., and tried to detour by
way Of Orrville over the Fort Wayne
division, but 1t was impossible to get
the team to Plttsburg before nightfall
and the two games with the Chicago
CUBS were called Off.
A freight train on the Wabash
Jumped the track Ave miles north Oh
Wellsburg. W. Va, and the entire
train rolled into Cross creek. There
are no authentic reports as to what
became OF the train crew.
Washington county alone reports
property damage that will exceed
81, 900 900. Thousands of sheep and
cattle we're drowned in the fields.
Washington is the greatst wool grow
ing community east Of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river. The streams throughout
this county and in Greene county
are clogged with the bodies OF dead
sheep.
Pfttsburg Is Flooded.
Pittsburg was dashed by fierce
storm for hours. The play Of light
ming and the crash of thunder were
continuous. Street car traffic
stopped because OF broken wires and
flooded streets Five inches OF rain
fell, record In this district.
Wire communication between Pitts
burg and the country to the south
west is only fragmentary, Telegraph
companies have big corps Of men
working or the lines thrown down by
the storm. Telephone communication
IL practically stopped. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad has sent 1000 men
into the Panhandle to rush the re-
pair work between here and Wheel
ing. w. Va.
The Monongahella and Allegheny
rivers are near the flood stage and
consequently tho Ohio is OVERLOOKING
its banks at many points west Of
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