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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1901
Page
1
Report of Burke cemetery flooded washing out fifteen graves with bodies seen floating down the stream. Ghouls purportedly began looting after the flood, with several shots fired by infuriated residents. names of those involved could not be learned.
In a Sunday Telegraph report, heavy rainfall Saturday night caused a rapidly rising flood eight feet high in the valley. Debris including logs and furniture swept through the area, breaking bridges at Algoma and Burke and destroying structures as it raged.
The Terecram's Tazewell correspondent reports a deadly flood sweeping Cedar Bluff and Pounding Mill. Three deaths occur in Pounding Mill while Cedar Bluff losses include homes and crops. one survivor clung to an infant through the flood. A man clung to a tree after his store was swept away and was rescued later.
Keystone and Burke residents tally extensive destruction with fifty-plus buildings washed away. Readouts name claimants and losses including Harman firms prices from groceries to general merchandise and saloon damage.
One grand square piano in good condition offered for sale with easy payments. Will rent to a resident of Bluefield. Apply to J. B. Jenkins at Wm. Hicks & Company Bluefield West Virginia.
People who know the high life and good taste in foods and drinks praise Hes ter's Famous Beer. Their favorable verdict carries weight and suggests choosing this beer leads to happiness and satisfaction.
The Flat-Top flood devastates Elkhorn and North Fork valleys with ruined tracks, bridges, and homes. debris fills Keystone and Burke as rescues unfold and bodies are recovered. losses reach tens of thousands in multiple towns.
The Norfolk and Western faces major flood damage with 12 miles of double track from Ennis to Vivian washed out and bridges gone. Crews from Norfolk to Columbus rush to rebuild, using Westinghouse electric cars for night work and eight telegraph gangs to restore lines. losses exceed half a million dollars and trains may be delayed one to three weeks.
The report details extensive destruction across coal operations including Coaldale Maybeury Lick Branch Ennis and other sites. Tracks washed out bridges destroyed tipples boilers and houses lost or damaged with losses ranging into the tens of thousands of dollars across Crozer Houston Turkey Gap North Fork and Greenbrier operations.
The committee will receive bids until June 26 for the stonework of the Christian Church addition. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Signatories include E. P. Godbey A. Worley L. A. Lowder Abel am Geo. C Bailey. The Bluefield Mercantile Co offers suits. Hoster's beer is advertised as best known to medical science.
The report lists victims identified so far including John and Nellie Smith Anna Smith Charles Sheely Mrs McCoy Sam Poindexter John Ballard Bettie Brown Trigg Jacob Riflin John Bannister and a mother and babe. The death toll is conservatively below fifty with Trigg noted as floating on a shanty roof before a fatal jump near the railroad track.
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