The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 29, 1885, Page 1

VOL. VIT. BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 1885. DROWNED IN iEIR BEDS ee ey eS BLS = Cloud-Burst in Kansas at Wight— citiz n- Submerging Houses in the e peo- Lowlands f at 1 i +0200 pe tions on house ce of Life at Medicine | !°P>- vork was extre y , A Peer ene al mee oes rm and Thereabou dazardous, and by nighttall there w i Wve Now ready TOT < pl Ing trade the finest line of ij as stl some solated prisoners A Autica, Kas., April Be a eal reached here to-day of a water spout ag A aoe io —— iast night near Mecicine Lox in| Sie a ae ie ° ( S . . Rs oe g i Ww ny, an ilescap the Spring Creek valley, doing great} AS thoes dente eas ; damage to life and property. Tt} drowned and great fields o struck a party of immigrants who] ruined. Hundreds of dead ar the banks of were camped near the river, aud over i also line fifty people are reported drowned. | cree and Kansas. This forenoon eight per ie ey a ee ee A 6 ‘ ne ancl t : oo ee Seer ee found clinging to the branches of SPRING WAGONS & PHAETONS. Hered the peas ' e Southwest. Examine our wor re you buy. of us. We resp -ansas report the ad caught w trees where they awa i slice Tuesdg at cost to parties buyi x Hood, } 5 illalive. One, a wom- being borne They we an, with her babe onl; 5 ag 1 known in that part ot { vour patronage. the state. over twelve inches of water months old, having fallen. All the level count was found in the br ‘Office. Shop and Sales-Room East Dakotah Streets where she had cl hours, and was weil n . : exhaustion. miles eac Py F- sh AcE ne A 3 Vas out oc } IE brsacese i “0 RICHMOND | on the Anthony extensions of the Ft. ce ~ ie aente sand alee Styles” Scott & Wichita t aud Goud ule a wood We FOR SALE BY ALL DRY COGDS nony and : A larce of s and ca causing a freigh t yecome ce 2 | 5 ; | im tive SOlKVards On n Labcite railed, wrecking several cars. TiVet One Gel biota ore a mers WU V a] e es « ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT. 1 } 1 ey aro t ta i s said that hun Gas, Wichita, K A prit 22.—A spec- al from Medicine Lodg ; ak t lost inthe su feartul results of the water-spout, or! .,, i x t > streams rose so sloud-burst, to the residents of Med- : water poure ‘ wai icine river, which seems to have been | the same that filled the Ninneseah to overflowing. The special says the ster rolled’ de wn over the low lands i ae i east of Medicine Lodge city 5 to 412} : : ? | : r x destruction of croos | feet. perpendicular, carrying death 1 ae ' ; if é oe and movable property has oc ed. | } inits wake. Several whole families Pa | is is rear | are known to be drowned. Yester- ! x : tay | ‘i f oi pe day morning parties who had gone pate | out to give reliet, found men, women | and children and hard labor with mmprovis ir ing to trees. with 5 ee = ed boats and other means. nothing but their night clothes t& =: 5 rs pe et otra The Marmaton river, which protect them, and some without vy i near Ft. Scott, overflow clothing whatever, but still alive. ; rand submerged with ar ment of from 600 to Soo populati rnd | known as North Ft. Scott, the wz a se Their cries could be heard as early as4o'’clock in the morning above the waving waters. Three attempts were made to rescue parties beyond the nver, but each boat in turn was swamped and the occupants only | standing in many of the houses from -tdeep. All the neo three to five f FLYING DUTCHMAN Sold by T. W. CHILDS, Butler, ri LOOK HERE FARMERS! IMPORTED CLYDESDALE STALLION SR i | VIVIAN CRAY. ALBRANT, i Vivian Gray No. 2494, Scotch hPa book No. 1507, American C. { s +, will make season miles north and one in Walnut i DescrIPTio Bay, wee ack ple were rescued, howe New The Missouri Pacific railroad tr: saved themselves by swimming to ins wishedoun both senor trees. Five bodies had been recov- Ft ott and no trains have moved ered up to the hour of the writing of | the di : ‘since Tuesday. The Wichita road e eae which was sent over tu | is badly washed: away. A fr the first railroad poi tby mail. An- other body was in sight but could not | bereached. There were eight mov- | ets’ wagons camping in the bottoms. | One old man bas recognized the | bodies of three of his family, his wife : and two children, boys respecttully 5 At lot acces eee and 7 years of age. Jas. Gibbs and ie his daughter and niece were washed traiu on the latter road went through the bridze at Clearwater, and Frank McDaniels, th ed. The fireman and brakeman also engineer,was drown went down with the train, but they | a tree and were rescued. caughti s sub- but it was stil very high and away with ther home. Mrs tle whi Harris and her little girl of Ir years Were found drowned. G. W. Pad dock and family, consisting of a wife and fo ldren, are thou IQ _ ~~ all drowned. Frank Shipplet Witte and childon the roof of his house. The} sewentdown. He Was knocked off bya project: and swam ashore several miles be CHEAP » EXCURSIONS Tor the World's ‘ow, but of the tate of his wife and child nothing was known. Hous AS . SHpoein: and Jobbing SUBMERGED AND DESTROYED —This town is ni beeen H ; r ‘ * Medione Tiver and E r Ear- | = as... . Seek ars IRA AL BRAN vesday morning the food came ADVICE TO ee and broke ahd the stre to feet. la Sottoms. Were entirely d the Occupants < clinging to Bin c a de camps in the bottoms were 10 or 15 immigrant wag ?€s and not Fet been fou: tire famihes others made ons filled with of yesterday » Were so high iat no con mication 2! Passens, Suld be pee Si to- ‘Kansas City. ee