New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-03
36KnoWn To Be Lost and Many
Others May Have Perished in
Storm That Sweeps Penn
Sy|vania, W. Va, Ohio.
MONEY LOSS. $1.500,0OO
Waters Rush Through Valley,
Tearing Houses from Founda-
tions, Wiping Out Roads and
Crippling Railroad Lines
Family Lost Asleep.

Pittsburgh. Sept. 2.-As result Of
torrential rains last night and early
to-day throughout West Virginia.
Western Pennsylvania and Eastern
Ohio. thirty-si arc dead and others
missing.
Added TO the list OF fatalities late
tonight are Ten foreigners al Golfers,
". Va. bringing the list there up 10
eighteen: three at Burgettstown Penn,
bringing the list there up 10 four, and
one at Woodlawn. Penn. near this
CITY. In addition others arc reported
missing.
Al all points tonight the storm is
over. People in the various towns are
attempting to take care OF conditions
caused hy the flood. but are making
little progress. Help is on the way
and has arrived AT some points, but
the actual extent of the disaster can
not be estimated before daylight to-
morrow.
From meagre reports tonight 1t is
believed the monetary damage will
reach close to sI.5o00O0.
Nineteen Dead in Ono Town.
Latest reports from the various dis
tricts give the following list of fatsli-
ties:
Golfers. w. Va, nineteen known
dead.
Cherry Valley, Penn, six drowned
Burcettstowr, Penn, four drowned.
kvella, Penn, three drowned.
cannonsburg, Penn, three drowned.
WoodIawn, Penn, one drowned.
Al Ford City, Penn. dozen houses
were washed from their foundations.
Lightning struck a score Of houses
while McGrahn. a suburb. is under
FIVE feet of water tonight.
The Pittsburgh team Of the National
League. en- route from Cincinnati 10
this city TO play two games with the
Chicago club. was unable to reach the
city until late tonight. Both games
had 10 be called off. Thousands OF
holiday spectators were disappointed.
1t Golfers. W. Va, nineteen persons
are known to have been drowned. n
cloudburst devastated the valley IN
which the town is situated, Harmon $
Creek overflowing its banks.
Golfers seemed TO suffer the Druht
Of the storm in West Virginia. Debris
foated down the creek. piling high ~
HOLIDAYS Cove. and a score Of houses
were washed away by the gorge. Most
of the fatalities at Golfers occurred
when these houses were swept away.
Railroad Tracks Swept Away.
The tracks Of the Pittsburgh & CO.
lumbus division of the Panhandle Rail
road for fourteen miles, between Bur
gettstown and New Cumberland juno
ton. we're carried from the roadbed'
The railroad crosses the creek mere
five times. and all the bridges were
wrecked. while the roadway was uh-
dermined At many places in that
territory railroad tracks were so badly
crippled that il is not hoped TO resume
operations for q week.
Cherry Valley, Penn. mining town
on Harmons Creek. was flooded Wlthin
half an hour after the rain began to
fall Foundations OF houses were un-
dermined. and they toppled over into
the flooded streets. The family OF
George Gillespie was asleep and did
not hear the shouts Of warning. Giles
pie, his wife and two children we're
drowned IN the house. The bodies or
the children were found on the little
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