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Show LOST IN CLOUDBURST EXCURSION PARTY ON TROLLEY CAR ARE ENGULFED. Wall of Water Sweeps 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 25 to 50 persons have been drowned. It is said that Oxford park dam, near Jeanette, burst', engulfing an excursion ex-cursion party on trolley cars. Oxford park is a summer resort about a mile east of Jeanette and several sev-eral hundred men, women and children 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 B5 to 100. The damage done by the cloudburst cloud-burst in the vicinity of Greensburg will not be less than $250,000. Brush creek 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 was the rise in the stream. At least 800 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 pt; Brush creek. When the dam bFoke 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 ear barn stood a car containing from' fifty fif-ty td seventy5 'passengers', many of them seeking to return to Jeannette, ' others using it- as a temporary shelter. shel-ter. .'' . . -" With the immense body, of water behind ft the crest of the flood bore down : with irresistable force. As It swept down the narrow ravine it carried car-ried with it the loaded street car and the crowded restaurant. The flood was filled with men, women' and children.' chil-dren.' struggling lor their live. :' The victims of the flood grasped anything that might save them from the fury of the water, seized the trolley trol-ley wires and met death by being electrocuted elec-trocuted instead of being drowned Several bodies have already been recovered, re-covered, that show death was the result re-sult of this cause. |