3 More Victims Identified in West Virginia Flooding, Bringing Death Toll to 9
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3 More Victims Identified in West Virginia Flooding, Bringing Death Toll to 9
Authorities in northern West Virginia have recovered the bodies of the three people reported missing after flash floods. Sandra Parsons, 83, and Jesse Pearson, 43, both of Triadelphia, and Connie Veronis, 71, of Moundsville, have been identified.
The Sheriff’s Office identified the victims on Thursday as Sandra Parsons, 83, and Jesse Pearson, 43, both of Triadelphia, and Connie Veronis, 71, of Moundsville.
The recovery of the bodies brought an end to a search that gripped Triadelphia, a town of about 900 people, in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, according to census data. Seven of the nine people killed were from there, Sheriff Nelson Croft of Ohio County said in an interview.
The flooding began on June 14 about 8 p.m., when a powerful rainstorm swept across Ohio County, about 50 miles west of Pittsburgh. About 2.5 to four inches of rain fell in just 30 minutes, quickly overwhelming the region’s narrow valleys, according to the Wheeling-Ohio County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/west-virginia-flood-death-toll.html