| Show SIX PERSONS i i PERISH IN A DELUC Missing and B Believed to J Have Been een Drowned in In Floods in Western Pennsylvania 1 West Virginia and Ohio U N FOUR UR HUNDRED MINERS RESCUED FROM DEATH ff Railroad Tracks Washed A Away way 1 I and Houses Swept From Foundations by Deluge That Extended Over Wide Area I 1 PROPERTY LOSS 1 I PITTSBURGH Sept 2 As As a result r of f terrific rains last night and P early toda today throughout West est Virg Virginia Vir Vir- g ginia nia inin western an Pennsylvania and amI eastern east east- lead dead and em ern em Ohio thirty six are others missing From Prom meager meager re reports reports re- re l ports it is believed the monetary damage will approximate Transportation facilities in all aU directions directions directions from this city were practically put out of commission S After twenty four hours houT of or ivel hot weather tho storm broke Jut evening In addition to an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary extra extra- ordinary ra rainfall the electrical features tea lea Tho tures ures tires were mot most spectacular The Tho teady Steady rain ran caused every stream to c It Its bank Within a a. short time the tho water ater had bad washed awa away railroad i tracks and sent tons lons of r earth fromI from Surrounding I hi hills Us making all thoroughfares thor- thor I f in the flood zone impassable If f Latest reports from tho various various districts dis- dis give the table tabe of of fatalities fatal fatal- lUes I COl Colliers ers W W. Wa Va Ya eighteen dead Cherry Chern Valley Pa six drowned Burgettstown Pa PD four drowned is Avella Pa three drowned drowne Ca Can Pa ja three drowned 1 Woodlawn n Pa a one ODe drowned Identified dead C ok White farmer n P r CiJi f r w J Ch Cherry rr ley- ley Pa- Pa Mrs Thorley and daughter Colliers Comers RW w. w Va ya Iw J-iii rg Pa Three children of or John Crow Avella AvelIa iPa Fa At t Ford City Pa a dozen houses ji washed from their foundations il hUnS hUnS' struck a score of or houses and andI I 5 a suburb Is under three to I f t live five e feet of or water tonight At 1 Colliers W. W Va nine persons are I known to have havo drowned and rumor has t that at least twenty were drowned t- t tA iA A t cloudburst devastated tho valley alley In the thc town toun is situated The Thc entIre cn- cn JUre tIre valley was deluged and houss houses were swept a from foundations Colliers seemed to suffer the thc brunt I Jf ot t the storm in West cst VIr Virginia lnla Debris I f fl wed down the thc creek and piled plied up at Holiday creek and a score of houses d were ore washed awa away J 1 1 Cannonsburg is under three feet Ceet of ot L water Business S houses are arc flooded I and id streets washed awa away Many houses undermined b by water collapsed II- II l tonight tODI ht I Prompt action on the part of ot k the Buffalo Coal company brought brous 00 miners out of ot the thc floods flood's 4 path jath When hen the t at water r was seen to be gaining headway whistles wore blown calling tho surface men to the office Quickly they notified the thc men beneath the carth earth Men en on hors horseback back rode down a narrow valley and warned the tho families of or the tile miners i |
