The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-09-04
FLOOD VICTIMS
NUMBER FORTY IN
STRICKEN SECTION
HEAVY DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
HAS ALSO BEEN RE-
PORTED,
DEATH LIST STILL GROWING
First Reports of Storm Sunday Night
and Monday Supplemented by Fuller
DetaiIs-oamase Was Done in Two
or Three States.

Pittsburg, Sept. 3.-There are 40
dead as the result of floods in western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and cas-
tern Ohio on Sunday night. The dam
age to property probably will reach
nearly $2,000,00O
Numbers of families are homeless,
railroad traffic greatly impeded and
many cities spent Monday night in to-
tai darkness, both electric and gas
plants being flooded.
Among the larger towns which suf-
fered from the rise of the waters were
Washington, Beaver, Burgettstown,
CaEonsburg and several smaller ci-
ties in the CHARTERS, Cherry and the
Beaver Valleys of western Pennsyl-
vania, while in West Virginia. COL
liers and the surrounding territory
suffered a great loss.
The list of fatalities is as follows:
Golfers, W. Va, Is dead.
Cherry Valley, Ca, six drowned.
Burgettstown, Pa, four drowned
Avelia, Pa; three drowned.
Canonsburg, Pa, seven drowned.
Woodland, Pa, one drowned
Wellsburg, w. Va, one drowned.
In the various localities attempts
are being made to take care of the
homeless and to repair in part the
damage. Crews of railroads arriving
Monday night at the different places
where washouts occurred are hard at
work today putting the tracks in
shape to restore traffic which has
been at standstill for the past 4S
hours.
Fifteen bodies have been recovered
from debris in the valley of Harmon's
Creek, near Golfers, West Virginia.
Searching parties are working in the
other valleys of the stricken district,
digging in the ruins of the demolished
houses in the hope of finding bodies,
but in many instances the rush of the
water was so strong that it is believed
the victims were carried far from the
places where they met death.
Food in some sections is scarce be-
cause railroad communication has
been cut off, but caravans are max
ing their way over badly washed roads
bearing needed supplies. In some viii
lagos entire families are snoveling
mud out of their homes.
The Charters valley from Washing
ton, Pa, to McKees Rocks, where
the little stream empties into the Ohio
river, is a vista of ruin.
Ten thousand acres of growing corn
has been ruined. Thousands of tons
of hay loated away on the muddy
torrent.
The damage to manufacturing con-
Germs will be heavy.
Railroads are trying to repair their
tracks and rebuild bridges. On some
divisions of the Pennsylvania and Bal
timore & Ohio railroads no trains have
been moved since Sunday night. 1t is
said railroad repair work is handi-
capped by the scarcity of men in this
district.
Stories of thrilling rescues are
reaching here from the food district.
When the home of Henry Endler, at
Avella, was washed away the three
Endler children we're hurled to the
bank of the stream, but their parents
were carried down by the torrent.
They caught the branches of tree
and chung there.
Rev. Mr.. Heany, Presbyterian
got a rope, tied it about his
waist and while six men held it he
plunged into the food and rescued the
EndIers.