Show LOST IN cloudburst EXCURSION PARTY ON TROLLEY CAR ARE ENGULFED wall of water sweeps bown down upon unsuspecting merrymakers and many lives are lost A telephone message received from jeanette a short distance east of pittsburg pa Is to the effect that a cloudburst struck that place sunday night and conflicting reports say that from aa to 50 persons have been drowned it Is said that oxford park dam near jeanette burst engulfing an ex curtion party on trolley cars oxford park Is a summer resort about a mile east of jeanette and sev oral hundred men women and chil dren are known to have been there during the afternoon just how many lost their lives is not known the reports are conflicting and run from 25 to the damage done by the cloud burst in the vicinity of greensburg greensbury Greens burg will not be less than brush reek rose higher than ever before and washed away everything along its banks scores of people barely had time to escape from their houses so sudden wag was the rise in the stream at least persons were at the park seeking relief from the heat when the storm burst the greater number sought the hillside preferring the shelter of the forest trees to the park buildings because they did not care to be below the level of the dam and but little above the dry season level of brush creek when the dam broke a solid wall of water twenty feet high rushed down and completely filled the narrow ravine with its car tracks car barn and restaurant in front of the car barn stood a car containing from fit ty to seventy passengers many of them seeking to return to jeannette others using it as a temporary shel ter with the immense body of water behind it the crest of the flood bore down with Ir force As it swept down the narrow ravine it car ned ried with ft it r the loaded street car and the crowded restaurant the flood was ailed with men women and chil dren struggling for their lives the victims of the flood grasped anything that might save them from the fury of the water seized the arol ley wires and met death by being olic ec instead of being drowned several bodies have already been recovered that show death was the re suit of this cause |