The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-03
DAMAGE AMOUNTS
TO MANY MILLIONS
Whole Villages Swept Away;
Telegraph and Telephone
Wires Down and Railway
Traffic Suspended.
Gy international News Service.

M Az
AA} Sweeping over the northern
Wv panhandle Of this state, east
ern Ohio and western Penn
sylvania. the most disastrous cloud
burst and rainstorn in the history of
the section left trail OF death and
destruction in its wake today. With
telegraph and telephone wires down
and with mauv of the small hamIets
cut off from the outside world. it is
hard to estimate the number Of dead.
but conservative figures place tho toll
at thirty-five and belated reports from
the devastated sections may bring this
number to over the half hundred mark.
Millions of dollars worth OF damage
to property has been done. Whole
villages have been swept away.
Known Dead.
ANNA GROVE, IS, Avella, Pa,
WILLIAM GROVE, is, Avella. Pa.
GRACE GROVE, 8, Avclla, Pa.
WILLIAM ADRIAN, Avella, Pa.
JAMES RoMIANA, Gross Creek, w.
va.
E. G. MITCHELL. SCOTS Run. w.
Va. ~
GEORGE P. HOFFMAN,, Massillon,
Ohio.
w. E. CELLAR, zoar, Ohio.
MRS. CLYDE WARWICK AND
DAUGHTER, Holidays Cove, W. Va.
MIKE KURo, Golfers, w. Va.
STEVE KEPTIc. Golfers. w Va.
HARDY BRADY, Charter Valley.
MIKE BosNIc, Mingo Junction,
Ohio.
JAMES F. GILLESPIE, WIFE AND
FIVE CHILDREN. Holidays Cove,
w. va.
ABE THoRLEY. Holidays Cove,
w. "
Train No. So, fast merchandise
freight, en- route from Toledo to Pitts
burg, left Miugo Junction about 4:30
o clock this morning and was rush
ing to pittsburg at n speed of thirty
five miles an hour, when near Rockdale
it ran into the storm. Striking
washout, the train plunged over
twenty -hve-foot emBankmcnt into
swollen creek, piling up the cars and
DESTROYING half million dollars worth
Of freight.
Fireman Is Killed.
Engineer Frank Cotter was washed
into the river aud saved him
self from drowning by holding onto
driftwood. George P. Holman, fire.
man. was instantly killed, and is
thought TO he buried undor the en-
CINE w. Il, ZellerS of Zoar, Ohio.
brakeman, is also pinned under the
train, From the headwaters of Cross
creek on the West Virginia side to
it's mouth, the land is strewn with
dead bodies of farmers and their fami-
hes. On the Ohio side the devasta-
ton is even greater and newspaper
meu were unable to make their way
10 the smaller towns TO ascertain the
damage owing to the washouts.
Town Washed Away.
The torrential downpour Of rain,
by heavy wind, began
with an hour s terrifying display OF
lightning. just at dark last night. The
storm lasted about five hours. In
that time Golfers, w. Va. town
If 500 inhabitants. was wiped out;
cherry Valley Pa, was left In ruins;
Avella, Cannonsburg, Washington, Bur-
,etstown, and a dozen small places in
he extreme western end of Pennsyl-
.ania were inundated. At New Phil
.delphia, Steubenville and other Ohio
owns near the Ohio river. the dam
Ige to property was heavy. while the
oss of life is not definitely known.
The rain fell in torrents. cloudbursts
viped out hills and flooded streams
ut great gorges in valleys filled with
ONES. Raging rivers tore out bridges,
nnihilated crops, slaughtered cattle
nd washed away miles Of railroad
rack. lightning striking in scores OF
laces added its terrors to the wild
light. Railroad traffic is practlcaiiy
topped throughout the storm'swept
ection and the telegraph servife Is