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Show iLIVES LOST INJTORM T7enty Dead In Floods Many Families Left Homeless Pittsburg, Sept. 2. Twenty persons are known to have been drowned and many others are missing following a series of storms that swept over western Pennsylvania and the panhandle pan-handle of West Virkinia early todaj. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the Panhandle railroad were badly washed and it is stated that days will pass before traffic can be resumed. re-sumed. Through trains were marooned, ma-rooned, during the night In the flooded flood-ed districts. Man manufacturing plants are under water and the property prop-erty damage will he heay. Reports fiom colliers in" tho panhandle pan-handle of West Virginia, are that nine persons have been drowned there and that more are missing, but the exact Iosb of life cannot yet be ascertained Cherry Valloy, a mining town on the creek, was tlooded within half an 6 our after the lain began to fall. Foundations of houses were undermined under-mined and they toppled ovor into the flooded streets. Whole Family Drowned. George Gillespie, his vifo and four children wore drowned in the house and the bodies of the children weie found on a mattress floating in four or five feet of water. Camionsbuig, Pa, also suffered from the storm hardly having recovered recov-ered from a like experience last week Chnrtier's Creek, overflowed its banks and swept through the town, flooding the railroad and trolle tracks, and many of the streets. A number of houses weie filled with water, but the residents had received re-ceived ample warning and hastened to places of safety, but one man who went back to lecover some valuable papers was crushed in the collapse of his house, and a boy fell into the flood when a porch on which he had taken refuge went down A number of children in the community com-munity are among the missing and several men, women and children who had taken refuge on the roof of a house on be stieam on the edge of Cahuonsbiug slipped on the shin- gi eGMf4JPEgiLaansfQ--- tVellor'Vasbjngton-- connjy, Henry Crow's house was undermined bv an ordinary little stream. Mrs. Crow was badh injured and Crow carried her out but before he could icturn for the three children they were swept away In Butler County. After spending its force south and west of 'Pittsburg the storm swung north to Butler county, where great damage was done but so far as known no lives were lost. OH derricks were blown down, small streams flooded, and scores of persons spent the night in lailroad cars held prisoners between washouts. wash-outs. Tbe known dead: COOK WHITE, farmer, Burdgctts-town. Burdgctts-town. Pa. GEORGE GILLESPIE, his wife and four children. Cherry Valley. Pa. MRS THORLEY AND DAUGHTER, DAUGH-TER, Colller3. W. Va "UNIDENTIFIED FAMILY or man, woman and three children, Colliers, W Va ELI HANCOCK Canonsburg, Pa. UNIDENTIFIED FORTIGNER. TEX-YEAR-OLD BOY, unidentified. THREE CHILDREN of John Crow, Avella, Pa With Little Warning. The storm came after a day of unusual un-usual heat and burst with little warn-In?. warn-In?. The Pitt3buig baseball team's train from Cincinnati was delayed by the Colllors flood, compelling postponement postpone-ment of the morning game with Chicago Chi-cago at Foibes field Damage to railroads js very hoavv. The Washington branch of the Panhandle Pan-handle is so badlv washed that all the trains were annulled and in spite of the five hundred men rushed from Pittsburg to make repairs It is said that several days will elapse before communication will be opon with Washington Pa. The Pittsburg and Columbus division of the Panhandle also suffered severely, fourteen miles of track between Burdgettstown and Columbus Junction having been heavily heav-ily damaged Through trains aie being be-ing dotoured to Pittsburg over the Ohio River division of the Cleveland and Pittsburg. Tho Baltimore and Ohio tracks were flooded in WasbinKton county, but repairs are being made rapidly. |