Show Family Swept Away by Flood Charleston W VaThe vicinity of Big Otter creek In Clay county was visited by a cloudburst Sunday In which five lives were lost and mucb damage was done to property Thu homo of John Pickering was surrounded surround-ed by water before the occupants were Awaro of their danger The family consisting of father mother and tour children tho eldest a daughter 17 years of age were swept away by the flood the mother being tho only ono saved sho having clung to somo floatIng float-Ing debris |