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<text id=90TT1635>
<title>
June 25, 1990: American Notes:Ohio
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
OHIO
Disaster Along The Wegee
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<body>
<p> The deluge of rain began as dusk fell over the Appalachians
in eastern Ohio. By 11 p.m. 5 1/2 in. had pounded the foothills
and cascaded into the hollows. In Shadyside, a village of 4,300
people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the
darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which
is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with
enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry
mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a
tavern. One patron was carried away by the water; another
survived by clinging to a bar stool. Not far away, the
onrushing water smashed into the house of Robert and Rose
Ramsey, crushing the woman.
</p>
<p> The flash flood also turned nearby Pipe Creek into a
torrent, damaging 50 buildings. Half of one house was found
lodged in a bridge, 20 ft. above the receding water. As a dazed
man looked for his home, a searcher observed, "He doesn't know
his family is dead." No one was certain how many of the 52
people listed as missing might have survived. But by week's end
18 bodies had been found.
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</body>
</article>
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