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Show LOST IN CLOUDBURST EXCUR8ION PARTY ON TROLLEY CAR ARE ENGULFED. Wall, of Water 8weeps Down Upon Unsuspecting Merrymakers and Many Lives Are Lost. A telephono message received from Jeanette, a short distance cast of Pittsburg, Pa., Is to tho effect that a cloudburst struck that place Sunday night, and conflicting reports say that from 25 to 50 persons havo been drowned. It Is said that Oxford park dam, noar Joanotte, burst, engulfing nn excursion ex-cursion party on trolloy cars. Oxford park Is a summer resort about n mile east of .Teanetto and sev-oral sev-oral hundred mon, women and children chil-dren are known to have been there during tho afternoon. Just how many lost tholr lives Is no't known. Tho roports aro conflicting, and run from 25 to 100. Tho damago dono by tho cloudburst cloud-burst In the vicinity of Grecnsburg will not bo lpss than $250,000. Brush oroek roso higher than over boforo and washed away everything along Its banks. Scoros of peoplo barely had tlmo to oscnpo from their, houses, so suddon was the rlso In tho stream. At least 800 persons wero nt tho park seeking relief from tho hoot. When tho storm burst tho greater number sought tho hlllsldo, proforrlng tho sholter of tho forest trees to tho park buildings, because thoy did not caro to bo bolow tho level of tho dam and but little nbovo tho dry season lovel of Brush creek. Whon tho dam broko a solid wall of water twenty feet high rushed down nnd completely filled the narrow ravine with Its car tracks, car barn and restaurant. In front of tho car barn stood n car containing from fifty fif-ty to soventy passengers, many of thom seeking to return to Jeannette, othors using it as a temporary shelter. shel-ter. With tho immonBO body of water behind it, tho crest of tho flood boro down with Irresistablo force. As It swopt down tho narrow ravine It carried car-ried with It tho loaded stroet car nnd tho crowded restaurant. Tho flood was tilled with mon, women and children chil-dren struggling for tholr lives. Tho victims of tho flood grasped anything thnt might savo thom from tho fury of tho water, seized tho trolloy trol-loy wires and met death by being electrocuted elec-trocuted lnstoad of being drownod. Sovoral bodies havo already boon ro-TdVprcd, ro-TdVprcd, that show death was tho result re-sult of this causo. |