OHD/HL - Surveys/Flood96: Appendix B

APPENDIX B



FLOOD DEATHS



An attempt was made to identify the 33 reported flood deaths by name.  The following

is the result of that effort.



Deaths



Pennsylvania    18

New York         9

West Virginia    1

Virginia         4

Vermont          1

                       

Total           33



(NOTE -- the names in bold were listed in newspaper articles.  Others were not

confirmed)



1.      Jean Lepley, 62, Bedford, Pennsylvania -- truck was swept away.



2.      Walter McChessney III, 17, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania -- swept into

        river while riding bicycle, repeated rescue attempts by helicopter and

        jetski.



3.      Lois Quarry, 68, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania -- flood related stress.



4 & 5.  Frank Vincent Kagenski, 77, and his wife Gladys, 75, Trout Run,

        Pennsylvania -- vehicle swept away by flood waters on State Route 14.



6 & 7.  Robert Barron, 8, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania -- mother and son

        driving home?  Kimberly Sue Barron, 35, Mifflin, Pennsylvania.



8.      John Keck, 68, Landisville, Pennsylvania -- vehicle swept of bridge on

        State Route 14.



9.      Mary Ann Blair, 38, Cogan Station, Pennsylvania -- mobile home swept

        away by flooding.



10.     Melvin Trine, 54, Montreoton, Pennsylvania -- died of hypothermia and

        asphyxiation due to drowning.



11.     Dorothea Williams, 59, Williamsport, Pennsylvania -- hypothermia,

        asphyxiation, and shock.



12.     James R. Schwegler, 41, Landsdale, Pennsylvania -- swept into

        Perkiomen Creek.



13.     Melody Kay Schlaline, 34, Mifflin, Pennsylvania -- left note at her car

        saying she would walk home; swept away.



14.     William Hackenberger, 38, Mifflin, Pennsylvania.



15.     Craig E. Enck, Hampton Township, Pennsylvania.



16-20.  The following 5 people died in Delaware County, New York, driving in

        one car when a pond dam collapsed.



          Donald Cobb Sr., 27

          Laurie Cobb, 32

          Tyler Cobb, 1

          Donald Cobb, 3

          Melvin B. Cobb, 23



21.     Unidentified person killed in same pond dam collapse, driving a car.



22-25.  Four deaths occurred in Culpeper County, Virginia.  A car carrying two 14-

        year-old and one 15-year-old teenagers, and a 20-year-old adult drove past a

        high water barrier late Friday night and were swept away by raging flash

        flood currents.



26.     A 75-year-old man refused to abandon his home during the evacuation in

        Snyder County near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.  He later attempted to leave

        by car and was swept away.



27.     A 32-year-old man drove around a barricade in Cumberland County  near

        Middlesex, Pennsylvania.  He abandoned his car in the water and was on foot

        when he fell through ice on the flooded roadway.



28.     Pennsylvania - unknown.



29-31.  New York - unknown



32.     West Virginia - unknown



33.     Vermont -- unknown.







Return to Table of Contents