The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-07-26
Tremendous Financial Loss
and Heavy Death Loss in
Three Tide-Smitten States
tcontinued from Esrst pege.l


dropped to the streets, blocking com
munication from many points and
causing darkness at many others.
Railroad and street car facilities were
practically suspended until after mid
night when washed tracks were re-
paired or debris moved along some of
the routes.
Dunbar, Pa, nine miles west of
Uniontown, is the center of the region
Of desolation in Pennsylvania. The
flood waters swept away homes and
business houses and did serious dam
age to mine, furnace and coke plants
and spread terror into the hearts of
thousands.
GAVE WARNING TO PEOPLE.
The food reached Dunbar ct AIS p.
m. J. w. Former. OF the Central hotel,
was at his desk when the telephone
bell rang. On the other end of the line
was Albert Dunn, the bookkeeper of
the A. V. Purnell bluestone quarries,
two miles above the town. There's
an awful flood coming. Warn the peo-
pie quick All the dams above here
have burst" Dunn shouted to Former,
who dropped the receiver and rushed
into the street. With all the strength
Of his lungs, Former shouted to the
people IN the streets to run for their
lives. The alarm spread like wild fire
were vacated by droves Of people who
rushed pell nell for safety on high
ground.
The warning came none too soon.
Former says it was one Of the quickest
rushes of water imaginable"
The financial damage in the food re-
gion of the three states will mount to
an enormous sum. Any attempt to
estimate ii early today would be i'm
practicable. There are hundreds of
families homeless, except for their
temporary shelter of tents and shacks,
but the waters began to recede after
daylight and tnasmuch as the weather
is warm, it seemed there would be
little OF the prolonged suffering that
comes in the wake of food torrents.
Floods in these regions are OF an
annual occurrence for which prepara-
ton is made and comparatively little
damage is done; freshets caused by
heavy summer rains occur several
times a season, but the heavy water
falls are carried away with only little
accompanying damage. The cloudburst
OF yesterday, however, came before the
district had recovered from more than
twenty-four hours of torrential rains
on Sunday and with every stream bank
full, soon all were pouring the flood
into the surrounding country. The
flood proved its strength. splitting
great rocks, heavy railroad IRON was
lifted from almost solid beds and
dropped into rivers. while deep scars
mark the surface Of the earth where
the crowding waters have made new
courses for themselves
TRAFFIC DEMoRALIZED.
Railroad traffic through a great ter
ritory is demoraIized With four con-
nections into Uniontown. the Pennsyl-
vania was able to get passengers into
the city early today Several railroad
bridges OF that system and the Balti-
more & Ohio were torn from founda-
tons and hurled into the waters.
Towns are cut off from railroad,
mail, telephone and telegraph connec-
tons From West Virginia no reports
can be secured by the weather bureau
for almost every wire from that state
is down.
II was in the coke region that the
fury Of the storm seemed to have been
spent. Uniontown. Dunbar. Lemont.
Mount Braddock, and Connellsville ali
were inundated and suffered great