Show Graphic c Story Told byMan by byo byMan Man Who o Reported Horror BY C. C J. J BUCKLEY Through International News Service Keating Summit Pa Sept 30 I 1 I was ns a witness to the deluge that hurling itself down clown the valley swept through Au Austin AutIn picking picking picking pick pick- ing up UI its buildings s as though they ther were kindling wood jamming them into the little gulley gully below where the town once stood and bur burying ing it H its inhabitants in the debris With my mr own O C eyes CS I saw aw whole families families entire entire family connections swept away Then the flood had pas passed d and I aw dozens of persons lying dead in what had once been streets I cannot describe the tho horror of the tho scenes I fled nine miles in an automobile to tell thc world the world of the disaster I As I sped away Iron front Austin I turned to look upon the scene and then I da dashed awa aa away in horror for everything was wag gone gone beautiful beautiful homes big biS brick buildings the churches the opera house all alt In a heap at the mouth of or the gull gulley C and piled several hundred feet high All out of or this gigantic pile pilo the flames were creeping I could see ee women screaming and tearing their hair as they crept through the heaps dead and dying Already the priests and clergymen were bus busy The rhe Rev Re Father OBrien O'Brien and the Rev Mr Ir Harter were doing heroic work They administered the last rites Some of the victims were without legs or arms the heads of some were crushed It was appalling Thousands of people lined the hillside Some of them were without clothing all of them were without food and many were so badly Injured that they could not walk wall el E Everything I have in the world is swept aWa away I am penniless but I Iam Iam am happy to have escaped with my life |