The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-11
Hundreds in Flood
District Without
Food or Shelter
MORE TROOPS OUT
Railroads, Coal Companies,
Business and Charitable
Organizations at tWork.
cgy Associated Prcss.s.


CHARLESTON. Aug. 11.-Soldiers
and volunteers reinforced by hundreds
OF workmen sent into Cabin CreaS
valley by the mailroad and coal. .operat-
ing companies today continued their
search for bodies of those who lost
their lives In Wednesdays flood.
Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
covered and leaders of rescue parties
said conditions were such in the up
per reaches of the valley as to tndi.
cate u much heavier loss.
Fcrndale was practically wiped out
and II was here that the greatest mum.
Der OF lives were lost.
Whole families have not been seen
since the night before the flood. Five
foreign men went down the river In
shack and nothing has been heard
of them.
Among the bodies recovered are
those OF a number of children. Re
ports from the Coal river district
show that while the loss was heavy
there is will not reach first Estimates.
The Second battalion Of the Sec
ond infantry was ordered into the val.
Icy this morning TO reinforce the First
battalion which was sent out yester-
day. The soldiers left Camp sKanawha
before. noon, y under command OF Major!
Herbert Mcmillan. st5's
Supply stations have been establish
ed In the lower parts Of the valley
by the soldiers and other relief parties
who went In yesterday and food and
clothing is being hurried to the suffer-
ing people.
Al noon, It was stated that 35 iden-
tilted bodies had been recovered and
Reed, wife and three children; Mrs.
Darby, of Holly, George Lewis. wife
and five children Of Ferndale; Mrs.
William Roberts, Of Red Warrior: Ma
bel Kyle, Mrs. James tCrabtree, OF
Cherokee; John Clancy, wire and
three children, Drybrldge; Mrs. Ma
tilda Lykens. four children and her
sister.in-law, Mrs. Luther Rupe, OF
Hurricane, drowned at ohley; Joseph
Cook and son. Eskdale; Maggis Far
rcll, Acme; John Fugathe and two
sons, Tyford The bodies fof four un-
identified negroes also have been re-
covered
All the commercial Organizations Of
Charleston, charitable bodies, the city
of Charleston, the state, the county
and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
are cooperating in an effort TO relieve
the suffering OF the thousands Of
homeless. OF the ten thousand home
less practically none saved any per
sonal belongings and the appeal sent
out by relief parties is for Clothing
for women and children. -
On the Cabin Greek, branch Is an
other Chesapeake & Ohio passenger
train, lying on its side in a ditch and
no tracks near 1t. The passengers ali
escaped yesterday morning except
one man, who was on a8strecher a on
his way to hospital. AfterSthe crest
of the flood had passed rescuing par
ties returned to the train and found
the man safe and none the worse for
the wreck.
The first victims Of the wreck will
be buried today II coffins can be sent
for the purpose. Even this feature
is serious one because OF the lack
Of carrier communication.
While the rescuing parties are work
ing their way up Cabin Creek rescu-
ing the dead from the debris OF the
flood which swept an area OF 400
square miles, and left in its wake un-
precedented destruction OF life and
property. for this region, plans are be-
ing made for a wholesale relief Of the
destitute.
President George W. Stevens Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and
corps Of assistants are on the ground