The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-27
NO HOPE FOR MEN I'M.
pRISoNED IN COAL MINE
Property Loss Will Reach Millions
Of Dollars. Whole Towns We're
Swept Away

Pittsburg Pa, July u The AFTER
math of the great floods here yester
day bring out the facts that more
than sixty lives were claimed by
cloudbursts in southwest Pennsyl
yania and West Virginia and hun
dreds of homes and business houses
destroyed UniontoWn Pa, leads the
list of known dead with fifteen.
EVERYWHERE there was a picture OF
wide epread desolation today--a vivld
reminder of the swiTling, raging wat
ers that had taken many human lives
and caused much ruin During the
day meager reports filtered in that,
II later verified, will run the list OF
fatalities up to sixty-one.
Where Death Visited
The places and the number report
ed to have drowned at each are as
follows:
Uniontown, Pa. fourteen drowned
Smock. Pa. located in Redstone
valley, fourteen reported drowned.
Grindstone, Pa, fourteen miners
missing and reported drowned.
At Linn Pa. two miners reported
drowned.
AT Wheeling ". va. three drowned.
At Lemont. mine, four miners re-
ported drowned.
At Ellenwood, Pa, n. l.. King, his
wife and child drowned.
At New Martinsyille, six reported
drowned
At Monongah. w Va, one drowned.
At Fairmont, w Va. two drowned.
or this list of sixty-one fatalities it.
has been possible to account definite
" for twenty-three Those who are
known to have met death are at
Uniontown, Wheeling. Fleetwood
Fairmont and Monongah
Months To Clear Mines
Admittedly the death list will not
To known for many days to come.
Many mines were flooded in short
space of time. Workingmen were
compelled to flee for their lives.
Whether some or all of the miners
reported missing escaped a watery
grave can only be ascertained by
time 1t will take months to clear
some of the mines of water.
Many sections have not been heard
from up to daylight today. What has
taken place at these places is not
known.
When the disastrous storms. cloud
bursts and floods sweep over the
large area yesterday scores of the
towns afflicted were just recovering
from a similar deluge which occurred
last Sunday morning Cellars and
homes had been freed of flood waters, |
streets cleared of debris and com
munication by rail and wire had been
adjusted Then came this storm, and
the towns were again plunged into
desolatlon.
Hundreds of families were driven
from their homes and suffered. great |
lv: residences and buildings were |
damaged or completely demolished |
Streets were torn up by the mile.
while others were piled high with
tons of debris carried by the flood |
waters. Poles we're uprooted and
wires dropped to the streets. effectu-
ally blocking communication from
many points and causing darkness at
many others. Railroad and street car
facilities were practically suspended. |
Waters Begin to Recede
1t was long after midnight before |
the waters began to recede. Rain had
ceased to fall some hours earlier /
EtN tiC HCdNN pitNlplbtitiou HOOu ludUt |
the usually dry beds of mountain
streams veritabe cataracts.
Mine Foreman w A. GAMER. of Su- /
perba No ., at Uniontown, who was
first reported lost. but who narrowly |
escaped being caught by the thrush |
Of water in the workings while |
spreading the warning to the i'll fated /
men, said that in addition to the
fourteen of those missing for whose
safety there could be no hope. for
eigner who came to work at the mine
onlv two days ago cannot be found.
Those who have penetrated the Su-
Terba mine come out with reports al
most indescribable ruin within the
workings caused by the awful force
OF the inrgshing torrents
1T looks in there as il there had
been an explosion of terrific force.
said Frank Taggart. who accompanied
Nine Foreman GAMER in stepping off
the distance between the mine mouth
and the point where the water choked
the heading
The water simply ripped w the
tracks and twisted and bent the rails 4
u, all sorts of shapes. in some places 4
forming an almost impossible barrier i
to our further entry Supports were
torn out and. until we came to water
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