The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1903, Page 1

T \EORN 4 X CATE ) i The - to be taken from | the Library.++++ Thns Paper not VOLUME XCIV-NO. 16. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CLOUDBURST SENDS TORRENT UPON OREGON TOUWNS AND HUNDREDS OF LIDES ARE LOST IN THE FLOOD JOAN BULL /GOLOMBIA JEALOUS OF | WILL DOOM THE KAISER Eager for a Visit No Hope for Pan-| by American Warships. ! THE TREATY ama Canal Con- vention. President Decides to|Congress of the Repub- Accept Pressing Invitation. European Squadron Wil Attend the Review at Spithead. 3 d par- festival and a similar mis- Britain regarded the able political officials 1n English Government acceptance by the United nations of ny was on h this country than spel the idea formal, friend- n the two great | | i ereated. | | | eror Willlam's invitation to | | a4 create the | terms of lic Will Balk at Ratification. llDares Not Defy Overwhelm- | ingly Antagonistic Public Opinion. TA, Colombia, June 15.—The canal will not be s, called to meet on June 20 rumors s of a majority of the peo- test would | WOMEN FALL WITH STAGE IND HORSES Native Daughters Bruised in an Accident. Coach Overturns and the Occupants Are Thrown Out. Skill of Driver and Gentle- ness of Steeds Save Passengers. | STl RED BLUFF, June 15.—What might passed by the Colom- | evening on the that | pital, the fact | whom were Mrs hat the Congress does not dare | Mary Tillma it be left to a public vote | Carroll, M show an overwhelming Francisco; have been a very serious accident and one to mar the pleasure of the Native Daugh- ters’ visit to Red Bluff occurred late last »ad zbout a quarter of a Springs. That no mile from ' Tuscan s the consensus of the best informed | tragedy resulted was due to a team of | gentle horses and a skillful driver. A party of Native Daughters, among Belle R. Conrad, "Mrs. Florence Temple, Miss fiss E. Carroll, Miss G. Grace Williams, all of San Miss Edna Grant and Mrs. Laura Frak FLOOD remarkable for its suddenness and appalling in the horrors that attended it occurred in Morrow County, Oregon, carly Sunday evening. Reports from a large desolated district, of which Heppner was the principal town, place the number of more will be found when the waters recede. dead at half a thousand. Three hundred bodies already have been recovered and it is considered certain that at least 200 The disaster was caused by a cloudburst which sent torrents upon the towns. o & - At any rate pean ‘squadron tc cordially ex tion to the Euro- England was so so frequently and ter the decision of the ps attend the have seemed n is understood be the point visited by force in Europe, h home fleet is vances' from that Spithead the American probably when reviewed there —_———— STREIKERS AT MORENCI MORENCI, A. T. e eighteen strikers under arrest were. to-day bound over in the District They w The i morrow. Th a company of ng overiand from ourt in $500 bonds each rs went to work this Detroit Copper Com- the for the 2d a smaller number for zona Copper Company. —————— Boy Falls From a Tree. DIEGO, June 15.—John O. an eight-year-old boy, who th his grandmother on Twenty- cet, climbed seventy-five feet up “ to-day and fell to the ground, " 1€ terrible injuries. His right leg and arm were broken and he was bruised from head to foot. His recov- ery is doubtful. e friendly ad- | June 15.—Fourteen | | l majority antagonistic to the proposition. Public opinion is unanimously against the canal. The representatives of the peo- ple in Congress openly reflect these views. Those who dare express a desire for the treaty are in a hopeless minority. Doubtless there will be an effort on the part of the Government to induce Con- gress to ratify the treaty, but this faint support will not sway the opponents of the measure. Even those who heretofore have appeared most enthusiastic for the treaty now realize that their cause is lost. iAS stated by one of the leaders in Con- RETURNING TO WORK gress, who arrived here to-day, the canal treaty 1s doomed to defeat. “The public is opposed to the project in its present form,” he added. *“You may | state without fear of contradiction that the measure will fail in Congress.” ———— STATE COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE AT ST. LOUIS Hold Conference With Exposition Of- ficials Regarding Exhibit to Be Made by California. ST. LOUIS, June 15.—James A. Filcher of San Francisco and Frank Wiggins of Los Angeles, commissioners of the State of California to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, arrived here to-day and are holding conferences with exposition offi- cials regarding California’s exhibit. Cali- fornia's special display will be in agricul- tural, horticultural, mining and forestry. The commission will maintain State ex-| hibits in art and education, while individ- ual exhibitors will. make exhibits in all the other departments. ——eotfs Ema Gett of Sacramento and Mts. R. G. Bussenius of Los Angeles, with Sherift J. W. Boyd of Red Bluff handling the ribbons, started for an afternoon outing at Tuscan Springs. About a quarter of a mile from the springs and /while going up a steep, | rocky grade, the brake on the stage re- | fused to work, and the horses being un- able to hold it, the stage backed to the | bottom of the hill and upset, piling the | ladies and horses in a heap. That no one | was injured is due to the fact that the team was gentle, as the tip-over occurred | at one of the worst places on the road. Had the stage upset on the opposite side it would have gone down a steep bank. Nearly all the passengers sustained | bruises, but no one was so seriously in- jured as to require medical assistance. The women lent their assistance, the | stage was soon righted and the trip was continued, Mrs. Tillman remarking: . “This is probably the first time in the history of Tehama County that a stage was held up by Native Daughters, with a Sheriff as driver.” —_—————— Kurds Are Taking Up Arms.. {COLOGNE, June 15.-~The Kurds are taking up arms in Kurdistan, according to a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from Constantinople. The dispatch adds that the United States Minister, the British Embassador and the German Charge have made representations to the -Porte regarding recent occurrences at Kharput, and -domiciliary visits to the houses - of Armenians have caused a panic. where the arrests of Armenian teachers Wall of Waters Breaks Down EPPNER, Or., June 15. On rudely improvised Homes. H benches, shelves of ware- houses, beds and floors in the few remaining houses of Heppner and along the canyon bottom lie 200 human corpses, recovered last night and to-day from the wreck- age and slime of Willow Creek, where yesterday afternoon stood one of the fairest and wealthiest towns in Oregon. A cloudburst which broke at 5:30 o'clock last night and blotted out three-quarters of the city wrought the ruin. It came upon the people with such startling sud- denness that no one had time to get to the nearby hillsides, the only points of refuge attained be- ing in second stories. The cloudburst fell over Wil- low Creek bottom just above the town. Heppner lies for the most part packed in the canyon, which is 150 yards wide, but the wall of water came down so fast that it was high in the center and low at the sides, and when it ‘struck a house the building split in two or rolled over and over like a log. For blocks the rapidly piling up mass of debris was carried, ¢arry- ing under iteover it, inside it and dragging behind it scores of peo- ple whirling in the eddies of the flood, insensible, mangled and des- tined in a few moments, to be dead.” The cries of motiers cling- TIVE IN RELIEF WORK. b HSERANG i Lo Rk bt W DO VS O Overflowing Streams Bear the Bodies of Scores of the Dictims. ing to babes, husbands holding wives in a last embrace and fam- ilies hurried away inseveral di- rections by the current, combined with the uproar of the storm and the flashes of incessant lightning, | made a scene of horror indescrib- able. . Survivors yet turn: away and refuse to tell of it. For twenty miles to the bottom of Willow Creek is a waste to- night. Ranchers’ houses are swept away, orchards are torn up bodily, alfalfa fields are destroyed and grain is level with the ground. Probably 500 persons are: dead. Half the town of Lexington, nine miles below Heppner, is' washed | away, while nine miles farther the flourishing village -of Ione “was flooded and greatly damaged. . The heroism of Leslie Matlock, | SCENES IN AND AROUND THE FLOOD-RUINED TOWN OF HEPPNER IN OREGON, AND TWO.OF THE PROMINENT MEN WHO ARE AC- .only by an occasional groan. Then a Heppner cowboy, saved the in- habitants of the bottom below Heppner. Rushing to-a picketed horse he whipped it to a mad gal- lop and flew down the canyon ahead, of -the flood, whose speed slackened somewhat as it widened out lower down. Matlock yelled to the ranchers as he passed and Lexington and Ione took to the adjacent. hillsides to watch the| water pour down and destroy| homes: When the wall of water, which at first came ten feet high, had subsided survivors say there was a few moments of awful silence over the stricken town, broken ensued ‘one of the most heart- Men and Women Make Futile Flight. CHO, Or., June 13.—N. T. Tooker of the Fairbank- Morse Company of Port- land, who was at Heppner when the awful disaster happened last evening by the bursting of an im- mense cloud, arrived here this afternoon, being the first to bring out the news. He was there when the disaster came and remained until 9 o’clock this morning. He gives a graphic description of the terrible affair. He said: “The rushing torrent came at 5:30 last evening, when most of the inhabitants were at their even- ing meal. All were taken so sud- denly, without warning, that noth- ing could be done to save those who were caught in the rushing water. Homes, stores and all buildings in the principal portion of the town were torn loose and driven onward, one jam causing the water to pile into another and then sweep away again, causing more buildings to go. “A low estimate places the dead at 200. The town had a popula- tion of about 13500, but this morn- ing only about half of the people of the town could be located. We {do not know where they have gone, unless they have gone down the stream. They may have gone to the hills, but this is doubtful. “The whole affair was one hor- rible, sickening scene, with death and destruction being spread on every side. From the time the flood came until it went into the regular chanuel of the creek, flow- ‘Continued on Pags 2, Column 3. - Continued on Page 2, Columa & ;