FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13480, 27 July 1912, Page 5

FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

SIXTY LIVES LOST,

MINERS DROWNED LIKE RATS

FIVE PITS FLOODED

New York, July 25

Sixty deaths were catised by the floods at Union Town Pennsylvania, and in the small towns stricken by the reservoir bursting and flooding the mines.

Fourteen men were drowned like rats in a trap when the flood entered the Superba mine.

At Evans' Station mine tho men were cut off 4000 feet from the entrance to tho shaft, and drowned in the inner workings, to which they ran seeking escape.

In other mines many escaped by swimming through galleries while the water was pouring in.

Wives and mothers frantically tried to prevent the water entering one mine by throwing sticks, stonesj and rubbish into a hole. The women then tried to enter the mine to give warning, but the overseers stopped them, fearing they would bo overwhelmed.

Five mines were flooded, and great difficulty'"was experienced in recovering the bodies.