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Houses \Vero swept from their foun- j
dations. and women and children bur- |
riedly leaving their homes were in |
home instances drowned before they
could reach the hills. The flood came I
In contact with the carbide supply of j
a moving-picture theater at Fskdale i
and it exploded, blowing the place to i
pieces, while loaded coal cars were j
jammed one against the other in in- |
describable confusion. The Cabin |
Creek Coal Company lost 21f> cars of
coal at Crane Fork, the cars and coal
being washed away, while fifteen feet
of mud and sand was deposited in their
place. A street carnival company,
showing at He Sota, lost all of its
equipment and animals.
These and similar accidents by the
dozen were reported late to-day when
couriers from rescue parties, penetrat
ing the valley, returned with pressing
appeals for help. Fully 10,000 persons
nere said to be homeless, the majority
of theln without food and clothing.
Kvery store in the Cabin Creek Valley
f..>onis to have been washed away and j
lis conten'.s destroyed.
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Karly in the day the First Battalion
of the Second West Virginia Infantry
8,i out from Its camp near here for
tbe valley, and by noon Major Rirlc
notir had established headquarters at
Honda, four miles from Cabin Creek
Junction, from which to direct, relief
measures. The men took with them
tents, 2,500 travel rations and large
quantities of other supplies, and more
were forwarded to them later in tho
day.
All the mules from tho machine-gun
company were taken, as tho railroads
In the valley will be out of commis
sion for days.
