Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-09-05
Twenty Persons Are Drowned
and Villages Washed Away.
WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN
AMONG STRICKEN STATES
Torrents Sweep Upon Towns in West
ern Pennsylvania and Panhandle
of West Virginia-WhoIe Fam
Wiped Out and Great
Damage Done.

Pittsburg, Sept. 9.-Twenty persons
are known to have been drowned and
many others are missing following q
series of storms which swept over
western Pennsylvania and the pan
handle of West Virginia.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
tracks were badly washed and it is
said days will pass before traffic can
be resumed. Through trains were
marooned in the flooded district Many
manufacturing plants are under water
and the property damage will be
heavy.
List of the Dead.
The known dead, most of them
identified, are:
Cook White, farmer, Burgettstown,
Pa.
George Gillespie, Cherryvalley, Pa.
Mrs. Gillespie, Cherryva1ley, Pa.
Four Gillespie children, Cherryval.
ley, Pa.
Mrs. Thorley and daughter, Golfers,
w. va.
Unidentified Italian, wife and three
children, Golfers, w. Va.
Eli Hancock, Cannonsburg, Pa.
Amelia Grow, aged twelve, Avella,
Pa.
John Crow, aged thirteen, Avella,
Pa.
Grace Grow, aged four, Avella, Pa.
Unidentified foreigner.
Ten-year-old boy, unidentified.
Reports from Golfers, in the pam
handle of West Virginia, are that nine
persons have been drowned there and
many more are missing, but the exact
loss of life cannot be ascertained I'M
til the searching parties along the
valley of lannon's Creek have COM
pleted their work.
Comes with Little Warning.
The storms came after a day of I'M
usual heat, and burst with little warn
ing. Rain fell in torrents; small riv-
ers soon became raging streams.
Houses were SWEPT away and lives
lost before the peonle were aware
the food was upon them.
Cherryvalley, a mining town on the
creek, was fooded within half an hour
after the rain began to fall. Founda-
tiCns of houses were undermined and
the structures topnled over into the
flooded streets. The Gillespie fami-
L., L
shouts Of warning. They were
drowned in the house, and the bodies
of the children were found on the
little bed in their room, the mattress
floating in four or five feet of water
White, farmer in the outskirts Of
Burgettstown, when he heard the
sound of the. fiod, FASTENED to the
stable to save his horse. He was
rescue was swept away, but, catching
the branches of an overhanging tree,
drew himself to safety
Houses Filled with Water.
Cannonsburg, Pa, also suffered from
the storm, hardly recovered from a
like experience last week. CHARTERS
creek overaowed it's banks ard swept
through tho town, flooding the rail
road and trolley tracks and many of
the streets. A number of houses were
TILED with water, but the residents had
received ample warning and fastened
to places of safety. Hancock, who
lost his life, had turned back to re-
cover some valuable papers. He was
seen to enter the front door 9s his
house collapsed. His body has not
been recovered.
The unidentified boy fell into the
flood when the porch of house where
he had taken refuge went down al
although scores Of persons attempted
to save him, he was swept away.
At Avella, WASHINGTON county. three
children of Henry Crow were drown
ed. The house was near a little
stream, which rose so rapidly that it
the building, and when it
collapsed Mrs. Crow was badly in
jured. Crow fastened to her rescue
and saved her, but before he could re-
turn for the children they were swept
away. Two other children were
tossed about for time on the surface
Of the flood and then thrown On the
bank of the stream, where they were
found later by the distracted father.
TRAINS DlTCHED BY FLOODS