Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-25
) rAousANps SUFFERING IN MINlN0
N PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.
1871 NEAR uNIoNTowh-PRoPER LOSS

Pittsburgh. Pa. July 25.-Death and
desolation spread broadcast over the
southwest counties yesterday and last
night, thru cloudbursts and overflow
ing streams. Three score or more lives
are the toll. while the damage to homes
and Industries can not now be estimat-
ed
Fifteen lives were lost in Superba
mines No. 2, near Uniontown. Seventy
FIVE miners narrowly escaped death
while from many other sections come
reports of lives lost by the mountain
torrents rushing into the lower slopes.
Sixty-one Fatalities.
During the night meager reports
filtered in that. II later verified. VIII
run the list OF fatalities up to sixty
one. The places and number reported
to have been drowned at each are as
follows:
Uniontown. Pa, fourteen drowned.
smock, Pa. located In the Redstone
valley, fourteen reported drowned.
Grindstone. Pa. fourteen miners
missing and reported drowned.
Linn. Pa. two miners reported
drowned.
Wheeling. w. Va. three drowned.
Lemont, Pa. four miners reported
| drowned.
Elenwood, Pa. H. L. King. wife and
child. drowned.
New Martinsville. Pa. six reported
drowned.
Monongnh. w. Va. one drowned.
Fairmont. w. Va. two drowned.
or this list OF sixty-one fatalities It
has been possible to account definitely
for twenty three. Those who are
known to have met death are at Union
town. Wheeling, Ellenwood. Fairmont,
and Monongah.
Admittedly the death list will not be
known for many days. 1t will take
months to clear some Of the mines of
water
Hundreds Desert Homes.
Hundreds OF families. deserting
homes in u mad rush for safety on the
mountain side sought shelter in I'M
provised shacks and tents. toward the
construction OF which every available
piece Of debris was turned to account.
At daybreak shivering women and
children gazed over the scene OF desc
lation. 1t was long after midnight be-
fore the waters began to recede. Rain
had ceased falling some hours earlier.
but the heavy precipitation had made
the usually dry beds OF mountain
streams veritable cataracts.
Flood Damage Enormous.
Dunbar, near Connellsville. was in
undated. The waters ragged thru the
main streets upsetting massive struc-
lures and endangerng the lives Of
hundreds Of persons. A cloudburst was
was the cause altho 1t is thought a
dam broke.
The Turtle Creek valley was visited
by a disastrous flood and the damage
is enormous. Crops were blottcd from
the earth.
Railroad traffic thru a great terri
tory Is demoralized. With four con-
nections into Uniontown the Pennsyl-
yania was unable to get passengers in
to the city early today. Several rail-
road bridges of that system and the
Baltimore 4 Ohio were torn from foun-
dations thought impregnablc and
hurled into the maddened waters.
Hundreds Are Homslsss.
Hundreds are homeless. thousands
ore suffering. Towns are cut off from
ra,lroad. mail. telegraph and telephone
connections. are in darkness. and with
out food and fuel
From West Virginia no reports can
be- secured by the weather bureau.
In this city the storm created havoc.
But while streets were flooded and
traffic delayed the damage was not
heavy.
1t was in the coke regions that the
fury Of the storm seemed to have been
spent.
Many Towns Inundated.
Uniontown, Dunbar, Lemont. Mount
Braddock. ConnclIsviiic. nil wsfc Tn
undated and great damage was suf-
fercd. The greatest loss Of hts wss