The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 6, 1897, Page 2

il i i | | | | i LOSS OF LIFE BY FLOOD. Guthrie Visited by a Second Johnstown Disaster--People Clinging to Trees Waiting to be Rescued. PART OF THECITY WIPED OUT. { Cloudburst Followed by the Break of the Water-Works Supply Pipe Plays Ruin at the Metropolis of Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla., April 28—At 6 o'clock this morning, a mighty wave of water, six feet deep anda mile wide swept down Cottonwood Valley striking this city with a tremendous roar, crushing houses and driving people screaming from their homes. At the first rush every bridge and avery boat went down the stream. Probably over 50 persons were drowned. The flood was caused by a cloudburst at a point unknown. All West Guthrie is inundated. In 20 business houses water is 10 feet deep. The river is 30 feet above its usual level, and is four feet deep on the railroad tracks, which are giving way. The telegraph is likely to fall at any moment. Hundreds of people are in trees, but can not yet be helped. Men try- wg to swim the channel to reach four women and a baby in a tree were carried away. People are floating off on houses. One woman wading from her home with her baby on her head was seen to go under. The air is hideous with she screams of dying animals. It is believed that a score or more of negroes were drowned in the col- ored settlement. There is absolutely no way of helping people, as no bridges and no boats are left. At 10 o’clock the flood was station- ary. Nine people are known to have been drowned. Two women anda ehild were carried away on a bridge. One man and two women were ona | chinery, Barb wire, Salt, Buggy paints, Machine cils, Garden seeds, Groeeries, Fruits, Nute, Cigars and tobaeco, confectionary, Tinware and Stoves, Steel ranges, Rop2 snd Twine, Fishing Tackle, GOOD ENOUGH SULKY PLOW, Moline and Rock Island plows, Cultivators, Planters, Har- rows, ete. The best line of Top Buggies and Road_Wagons for the money in Bates county. BRING US Your. Butter and eggs in exchange for goods. We give you full measure and down weight. house roof when it went to pieces We are now prepared to give you and all perished. It is as yet absolutely impossible to get names. Scores are missing Many buildings are still going. A girl who has been in sight iu a peach tree for hours just gave up and fell in the water. Gus Platt and George Willis swam dhe main current, cuta flat boat from moorings and saved seven people, making a landing miles below the sity. It is believed that many were saught io bed in small houses and drowned. The big Cimarron bridge |, Mas gone. Immense damage was done in the country. Skeleton Creek washed away scores of farm houses and several persons were drowned. CITY RESERVOIRS BREAK. Io the southwestern pert of the sity a long arm of land is formed by the widening of the river. On this Jand lived hundreds of negroes. During the night the bridge leading across the river to the city had been swept away The people were ab- sorbed in watching the rising waters this morning when the reseryoirs suddenly burst and the added flood game down in a solid wall, cutting off the people from eecape. Three daring raftsmen sought to vescue an old man from a tree. The vaft as it rushed down the river was watched with breatkless excitement. It struck the overhanging limbs and the raftsmen were knocked off their feet. They managed to stay on the raft, however, and it went whirling toward the Cimarron. Nothing bas since been heard of the men. The tracks of the Santa Fe are submerged and traffic has been aban- doned. Small railway bridges ip all directions have been washed out. The disaster equals the. Chandler tornado for its terrible suddenness. An unknown man, his wife and child have just floated down ona house, which had toppled over and drowned them all. An old colored woman stood on the roof of a small house, white the water slowly rose about her, and carried under, pray- ing and singing a bymn. lowest prices on tinware of all kinds. DEACON BROS. & Gv. LOW PRICE HARDWARE AND GROCERY HOUSE. Hardware and Cutlery, Blacksmiths supplies, Iron, Stee]. Nails, Wagon | wood work, Guns and ammunition, Buggies, Wagons and Farm ma- Puwps, Corn ghellers, Chicken netting, Screen wire, Screen doors, | H : jpres-nt, making 42 necessary toa {rum and Deboe’s election. | DEBOE WINS. 'Elected United States Senator From Kentucky. |The Famous Deadloek is Broken | at Last. Frankfort, Ky., April 28 —Wil-| ham J. Deboe, Republican, was to-! day elected United States Senator, | jto succeed Blackbarn, Democrat. | | The decisive ballot was the 60tb of; |the present s2esion of the Legis.a-| lture, and the 112th taken to fill) Blackburn's seat Eighty one were, is put up in Label and our package. WEST AND EAST. choice, and Deboe got 71 votes | The ending of the two years’ fight Pitted to elect a Senator was dramatic. At) 11 o'clock politicians were crowding } their forces an hour before the joint legislator. Women were scattered tives. DEMOCRATS SAT SILENT. Upon the roli call the Democrats sat silent, only Republicans and half the gold Democrats Eighty-one responses assured a quo- nomination by Nat Howard, a ee a doing. publican leader,seconded by Senator Clark. As only Si were present, by the roll call, 42 votes were all that was needed to sacure the victory for the Republicans. Deboe got 71 votes; Martin, the} candidate of the gold Democrats, 12. When Speaker Blanford of the House east the ballot that landed Deboe, men stood and cheered and women waved their hankerchiefs. A roll of the absentees was then called and the Blackburn silve: Democrats responded, their effort to break a quorum having been useless. This brought the sumber voting to 135, making 69 necessary to a choice. Deboe had won by a margiu of 2 vctes. Lieut. Gov. Worthington announs- goods. From what can be learned it now jseem to bea battle of the Western us, and flesh-f fow Labels. Be sure WALTERBAKER & CO. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass, pasa de bever- Blue Wrappers and Yel- the Yellow are on every that ‘Trade-Mark THE store. night. Specialattention given to temale dis eases. All callanswered at office day ar ed the result at 12:27 o'clock The members yelled for ten minutes and then the joint session adjourned sine die. ing to trees and rovfa on buildings, but could not be reached at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It is impossible to get any definite news from the hundreds of rescued people on the bluffs west of the city, | ent Dolan says it will be impossible to run trains south of here before Sunday. The Santa Fe yards are full of passenger and freight trains, and many south-bound passengers with little means are in a sorry plight. who have come to hold an old fash ioned jollifieation tonight. Deafness Cannot be Cured. by local applications, as they canno reach the diseased portion of the Frankfort is full of Republicans ear | Fr Bates C : Against Each Other on the th ~ soa ore oe Bates County Bank, | Washington, D. C, April 28.— ha into ths lobbies cf the old State} Senator Jones of Nevada, whcse vote BUTLER, MO. bo House. The Republicans marshaled will be needed if ihe Republican) on tariff bill is passed, is credited with Successor to? be assembly met at noon and a steering | having exacted from the Eastern Re ve committee kept careful eyes on every} publicans an agreement that hides Bates Co. National Bank, mi shall be put upon the protected list | ex through the Hous: of Representa-jand a duty of one and a half cents a| Established in 187C. of pound levied. Paid up capital $125,000 bo Sevators Aldrich, Allison and Platt A 1 banki b de are the custodians of the secrets in feneral evan’ ne, Ousiners yea ni connection with the measure and acted. be answering.|have been guarding them well | F.J. TYGARD, - - - President, ac These statesmen do not even tell the TON Aah ‘ Ss venerable Mr. Mormll, Chairman of | Neo: tS Vice oo in Deboe was thea formally placed in| the Finance Committee, what they J. C. CLARK = a Cashier be It is generally corceded| “pe | NW CHORICTYV m that if Mr. Jones has succeeded in| D&. J. M, CHEESES, compelling this concession there will | HOMOBOPATHIC F be renewel wails from the New PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, | th Englaud manufacturers of leather} Ofice, front room over McKibbens There is only one way to cure deafness and that is by constitutional remedies. and those who escaped are rushing frantically about in search of missing enes. The submerged section em | picturesque appearance. Houses and braces two of the five wards of the | sheds ara piled up in streets, and city, including 20 stores and ware. | dwellings left standing are covered houses, an ice plant, depots and a| with mud. large residence section. Reports received to night from )and this tube be restored to its normal e ? i ee the Sac and Fex agency island cay condition, hearing will be destroyed for Guthrie, Ok , April 29.—With the thedeaol Bard qivenus vw ileg | CVeTs Bine casas out oy ten are caused dy falling of the waters last nicht and P Bed Eo = catarrh, which is nothing but an inflam- g : eht and | wide, and houses are afloat on it. | ed condition of the mucous surtaces today some estimate of tho awful | Acres and acres of crops are destroy We will give one hundred dollars tor devastation and loss of life by the ed. All the bridges over Bell river | any case ot deainess (caused by at) terrible flood of yesterday that laid | Vere Waehed away. fe oe tea West Guthrie, a suburb of 5,000), p2vlight found dozens of people F. J. CHevey & Co., Toledo, O. ’ : still clinging to trees, overturned | pey_Sold by druggists, 75c. population, bare, may be made. | houses or timbers in perilous posi- - : The first estimates were hardly | tions, which they had sustained all overdrawn in the matter of fatality. | during the weary night. For tulles | It is now certain that over three ®0mg the scene of devastation 1,500 Rescuing and relief expeditious have been busy all day. The scene of the flood presents al|dition ot the mucous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have arumbling sound of impertect hetring, and when it is entire ly closed deatness isthe result, and un A Victim of Election Returns, Deafness 1s caused by an inflamed con- less the inflammation can be taken out i Clinton, Mo., April 28.—Ten days a against the New England men in the | -->) > El + e Finance Committee. New England Dr, Ri. i red Jones e has thres men on the committee and Physician, t it will be interesting to watch the én sie ea ae vs fi : ce over McKibben store. Residence, M. E, Democrats after the bill reaches the | churen parsonage, corner Ohio & Havannal Is full committee. Jones of Arkansas, eteenae oe Re g Vest, White and Walthall have al T C. BOULWARE, Physician ané ways iusisted strenously that hides e Surgeon. Office norta side square 1 should remain on the free list. Butler, Be seneec women and chit 8 capac 2 en a specialty. The French say “it is the impossi- 3 ble that happens” ‘This has proved DR. J. LT. BUELL 8 to be the case with the Mount Leb : | ft anon Shakers. The whole scientific DENTIST. : world bas been laboring to cure oe dyspepsia, but every effort seemed — _ ~ Rooms, Over ‘ to meet with defeat. Tho suffering pe OA Sie from stomach troubles has become| Entrance, same that leads to “Hagedorn’s almost universal. Multitudes havel Studio, north side square , Butler, Me, t no desire for food and that which n they do eat causes them pain and See a} Deas a distress. Sleepless nights are the Dr. M. &. Bi an, a rule and not the exception, and DENTIST thousands of sufferers have become : i discouraged.} Office southwest corner of square over ti The Shakers of Mount Lebavon HU Bettys srocey ere Et recently came to the front with their ® new Digestive Cordial, which con-| T0®- W- Silvers. a ‘ tains not only a food already digest ed, but i3 a digester of food. It promptly relieves nearly all forms of indigestion. Ask your druggist for one of their books. Silvers & Silvers, ; —ATTORNEYS ‘AT LAW— : BUTLER, - - - - - - MO. Will practice in all the courts. ‘a an Laxol, the new Castor Oil.is being | -— used in hospitals. It is sweet as honey. ‘Thos. J. Smith —$—_$____—_ | LAWYER, Bond Issue one of the Possibilities of the | Oliie over Bates Counto neni Near Future. | Butler, Missourl. New York, Apr. 28.—It is thought | | by some here that if the outflow of i RAVES & CLARK, | gold continues and the tariff bill re- | g° | mains hung up that the McKinley ATTORNEYS AT LAW. jadministration will have to face a ae a ae: il lah ial Office over the Missouri(State Bank score of people, mostly colored wo- | people homeless, half ill from ex a child : ied d | posure and hunger, passed a miser men and children, were carried down jable night and morning found most the swift current of the overflowing jof them too weak to avail much Cettonwood to the Cimarron river, | aseistance either two miles north. A poll of West | others. : - Guthrie this morning showed 82|, Ube scene in the flood swept dis aes eas trict this morning was one of deso persons ees the aus) oriey: of | tation. There is a confused mass of them colored. Several bodies were | debris aud overturned and demolish seen floating on the Cimarron to-day | ed houses scattered over the valley but they could not be recovered, ow- | Where last night was a sea of water ing to the turbulence of the stream. ee ee ee The Property loss will fall below | chickens. Whole blocks where yes- the first estimate. Probably $200, | terday stood a home on pearly every 000 will cover the damage in the|Jlot, are stripped bare, huge trees, county, and at least $125,000 is in | torn up by their roots, were scatter Guthrie. The damage to crops is} 2 vuge = . } o e Streets. put at $50,000. and the Santa Fe gardans were devastated, fruit trees road will lose $30,000 afone. Over | Jeycled, lawns and flower beds clear to themselves or 400 homes in West Guthrie were ed off level as a table, and fences washed completely away. | completely gone. The waters of the Cottonwood and | THE MONTH OF ROSES. Cimarron rivers began receding early | _ May is called the month of flowers, because Be CoE uy aan: = peneded boad issue before the middle of the up a gang of tramps, and finding on | ti ugly dirk knife, he wae | °U=™*T Ss ead Sa ete i There was talk in Wall street this, prosecuted for carrying concealed { as és > :.-,|Morning to the effect that Seretar weapons, receiviog a thirty days’ jail @ i 2 : ee | e age, who i3 now in this city, in-j| sentence To-day Sheriff Callaway : : ee cae tends to bave a talk with the leading | receiyed letters from Thomas F. | Colbert, superintendent of police, and A. F. Zearing, private seeretary to Mayor Thomas Taggart, Mayor of Indianapolis, Ind, asking clem- ency in behalf cf the prisoner, who is stated to be Ed Bergen, a worthy and r-spectabls citizen of that place. Mr Zearisg writes: “Bergen’s case isape-uiirone During the cam- paign he :nade a foolish bet to leave towa for two years if Bryan lost. the other fellow to do the seme if Mc- Kinley was beatea. Hence, you have found him in your state.” Mr. Ber- gen will bave to serve hia time out, but as the sheriff is a gcod democrat the financiers on matters of currency and menetsry legislation by Con- gress, with the view of ascertaining ed. It is expected that the Secretary will submit his fiadings to the Pres ident, and that the subject will soon hereafter be taken up at a Cabiret meeting. St. Charles Comes to Terms. Jefferson City, Mo, April 28.— State Auditor J. M. Seibert, secre. bank presidents before returning to | Washington. The Secretary, it was) said, will make an effort to “sound” | what sort of legislation is most need- North side square. C. The Old Reliable PHOTOCRAPHER | | North Side Square. | Has the best equipped gallery is | Southwest Missouri. All Styles of Photogrphing ; executed in the highest style of the | art, and at reasonable prices. 2 ; Crayon Work A Specialty. | All work in my line is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Call and see samples of work, Cc. HACEDORN. HAGEDORN | Ass . . : under the increasing heat of the sun, vegeta- last night. During to day the bodies | tion blossoms rapidly and lends its varied hues ae ate sya takes, | 0 beautify the landscape. of six colored people were taken | “paring this month sleo there are nsusily dis- from the water. One body was iden- | turbancesin the haman body. Winter diet, tified as that of Henry Miller, he will doubtless be easy on him. Elizabeth, N. J., Oc’. 19, 1896 jy Bros. Dear Sirs:—Please ac the foul airofclose rooms, insufficient exer- 2 { cise, have left the system fall ef impurities. tary of the State Board of Eqvatiza- | Ack your |tion, was apprised by wi-e today, DRUGGIST | that the County Board of Eqzaliza- for @ generous cept my thanks for your favor in the i : i f St. Charles Co.,bas nded i . a ] Sa, | Whieh, under the imfuence of warm weather! - a eee tion of St. es Co.,has reecinde 0 cae ‘i Of six boats that have attempted | teamster. Jobn Miles and Mrs Fan | Rinicainemecivesin biliogsners tredtea: | gift of a bottle of Cream Balm. Let lits order refusing to obey th salon 4 so cross the channel to the inundatea | ™'° Ruffin were found buried in a | ingsewallowness,sluggish brain nervousness, | me say I have used it for years and| ¥ LAS : pian TEIAL SIZE FY o the inundated! oy. of weeds. The C (| imdigestion, loss of sleeps. These symptoms | 5 < ies idate of the State board, and raise — districts f. h mined Teeatva b= 1p ees © Cimarron river | are only »foreranners of more serious diseases |Can thoroughly recommend it for} @* > and raise ees cts four Rave capsizec. Levelve | eontinues raging, and its shores are ee Hes unless measures are taken to | ELY'S parify an strengthen ihe vital organs. at | What it claims, if directious are fol. | the assesement of realty and pergonal CREAM BALM more boats are being built. N. M./ strewn wi is i i F, : mi “p98 g tN.M — oe : at this season. the cleansing, | requlating and | lowed. Yours truly, property 10 per cent on each class. ar’ ind wife were rescued after ss <— ie mules age five | teraate particularly appropriate | It is four | (Rev) H. W. Hathaway. (The State board was preparing to 3 oth- spending hours ina tree. Mrs. Jen-|™ ci track were washed away, | medicines imone.. a kidney tonic. liver rega- No clergyman should ba without a er injurious drug. It E : | : S Z ; 2 | later stemach stimulant and bowel purifier. Aj. ~ mandamus the St. Charl | nickly abso! i} AD nie Mickel spent two hours on a|®0@¢ sections of which can not be | few doses taken when the annoying billious/it. Cream Balm ts kept by all drug Z oe Charles county | Ginureilstatoace’: COLD NH re x found. Railroad traffic to the south | symptoms appear will strengthen and tone up | gists. Fullsize 50c. Trial size 10c | officials. The increased assessment | It opensand cleans the nasal passages, silsy! ehimney, and was rescued: Forty ig RG Ee dstill f e 85 and enable the body pass through | Ss cs ill : e inflammation ‘heals and protects the mem-' Sf 1 Bi prae z mpiete standstill for | the heat of the summer unaffectad by the dis-| We mailit. Ely Bros. 56 Warren| Will be made in accordance with the | brane- Restores the senees of taste and spell. ty people were still in sight, cling-| two days, and Division Superintend- | SS%$ ™™0” to the season. Sold by MeClem—} 51° 7 y City. State board’s directi Eiica Ste; 2 teiesaie ios, se Ararsies eee en . = = 2 Sa | ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, N Y