The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1903, Page 2

. THE FRAN ‘1S¢0 CALL. TUESDAY. JUNE 1 1903. YOUTHFUL HERO GALLOPS AT LIFE-IMPERILING SPEED TO OUTRACE J. LUOLLEN RI DERS flND WARN PEOPLE | Renewal of @ Tempest Threatens to Cause More Serious Damage in the Morrow County Ualleys |. e he mounted a horse and rode at reakneck speed down the canyon in front of the rushing water to notify the people of Lexington, a small town nine miles be- Continued From Page 1, Cojumn 7. was abeut 5 w. He had to go over a rough and DY v-road, and the night was dark and 1€ rm . first started rmy. His horse leaped over bowlders, g arvite metimes nearly throwing the rider, but o hie west o1 the gily. t ot once losing his feet. He arrived s a small dark-cloud: at 'f gton just a few minutes ahead of > . 0d. The people were warned and - G v left for the hiliside, not hav- g tme (0 take anything with them. - | Every person esc sut when the fiood had passed only two houses were stand- ing. Lexington had a popuiation of about 500, ““Ione 14 was the next town down the line. ¢ water to ia n \'IC]I an 'l'\( ]N‘r‘ph there were warned by Matlock 1 ‘. 1 by telephone. They left their homes, but )O! t struc air h . ¢ e L : uck fairly the town is buflt on a wide flat very Willow Creek, damage was done. No buildings were g washed away, © some were moved from e above town, there | their foundati dead are being buried as rapidly as ing until the mighty | they can be identified. They are simply A "N 1 wrapped in clean sheets, ]ll:u('\i in a er al( 1€ ad hed the | A x and carried away to the ng ground The torrent struck the upper part of the town first. The residence of Thomas Howard was the first to fall, and his en- < tre family was drowned. In the Krug home also every person was drowned, as was the case in the Hale and Saling resi- denc All of these houses were about business | Abram Hamsick blocks above the . Fln Palace Hmfl was the first building stem the tide, and all the guests were | s below the Palace Hotel out into the street, over- been d and wrecked. The residence of C. | i chil- A. Rhea was carried away and the entire moment | family, consisting of both vure and three Masoni¢ conven- whose residence ed. was also ab- Portland, and his wife drowned. The body of & among those recovered. wuse was carried away s drowned. His family is bouse was mext, but | ed in saving their lives er stories, the hous, the creek three-quar- ached by the res- had been was standing in his neck, holding his wife and keeping her from slip- stretched arms. Dr. Mc- Avers, who were living in | dence, were drowned. Oscar ise was next demolished and drowned rest of the down SCENES AT THE MORGUE. Miner blic t da ing awful ceeded in saving their lives by e roof Wells family but two were house carried away With dence ewent the house of | rt. Swaggert'’s two mar- s were drowned with’ their The Mallory house was 150 yards and was found lodged | . + ¥tore and Mr. Mallory, a crip- 1 man, was found safe, holding a Jim Matlock's house, was next: Matlock was drowned, but hif family was saved. Dr. Higgs' house also went. Here child was drowned, but the rest of caped. Mrs. Elder was d in her residence. The houses of and Walton were also destroyed th families lost. Mr. Bartholomew ded in saving all persons in his res- although they were badly bruised. se jtself was washed away. Perhaps the greatest loss of life curred at the H Hotel. This hou: 1 was run he management of & Ashb: . was carried away. It d that there were about fifty hotel, all of whom are e lost. The proprietors them e saved, but their families are dead | s of Ben Patterson, Mr. Gunn Noble were entirely demolished, | 1 persons in these three families drowned, were the familles of heir hus- | baby . . ¥ keep order committee where i and 1 y James Jones and Henry Blair. The barn } z of Dr. Sw n and the big livery sta- wn was washed a Al wire | Dle of Whities & Meadows were entirely were f business J. Farnsworth and Philip 0 drowned. The entire resi- LESLIE MATLOCK, HERO. icn of Heppner was destroyed, | fat ng man, was the ess houses, being on higher | and hl)ng generaily built of brick | not so badly damaged. and courthouse, which lslde, were saved, but two T Methodist and Presbyte- ), were completely wrecked. “Around the depot the receding water left great heaps of driftwood piled higher the flood first than the roof of the station, and the res- = ties were forced to demolish pecla a e amids of timber In order to exs r > corpses which were tangled in y > the brush. Undodbtedly many of the weemfN QUR NEWemmmm= | 1| Growned bodies were carried by the rushe.| ing waters down the valley. Tt is report- Baseme[“ Depflrtme“t @ that three bodies were found near Lex- DadviliVill ULPAIMIVIIL 115 cton, nine miles below Heppner, but e there were no fatalities in Lexington. No systematic effort has yet been made to find the dead, who are undotbtedly strewn along the canyon. Every available man from a radius of sixty-five miles has been pressed into service at Heppner itself. Gangs of men.are at work clear- ing away the piles of debris, rocks and timbers which lle piled In Heppner's streets and taking out the corpses which | are thus concealed. “About 100 persons have been buried in Heppner's graveyard to-day. Owing to the entire absence of proper facilities for caring for the dead the victims of the | flood were for the most part interred in’ common craltes “A relief train ment from The Dalles | réached Ione to-night ahd will proceed to | Heppner as soon as possible. A wreck- ing train with gangs of men to repair both the tracks and telegraph wires will leave this point to-night. It is expected «.at communication with Lexington, seventeen miles from Heppner, will be restored early in the morning. On board The Dalles train are five doctors, six | trained nurses, a committee of twenty | Elks and another of six Eagles with all necessary drugs and supplies to care for the sick and wounded. There is also a car of provision —_———— Mayfield to Vote on Incorporation. SAN JOSE. June 15.—The Board of | Supervisors to-day authorized an eleo- | tion to be held at Mayfield on July 7 to | decide the matter of incorporating the | town. For several months the people of | Mayfield have been working for incor- | poration and petitioned the Supervisors lfor permission. This was granted at | the last meeting of the board, and to- | day the time of election for the citizens 2400 PAIRS OF _MEN'S LACE snofis 200 Pair THE BEST SHOES EVER OFFERED FOR THE PRICE PATENT LEATHER Vicl KID BOX CALF SATIN CALF Money Refunded if Shoes. Are Not as Wanted. | untouched, f— e (=0l PRRTEAND A Inhabzta ts Rush to the Hills and‘ Families Are Sadly J'eparated ‘ Time of the Calamtty . vat “the XECUTIVE RESIDE OF THE STATE OF OREGON WHO HAS BF l 1 N ASKED TO ARRANGE FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF | TS AT HEPPNER AND VIEWS OF HOMES IN THE REGION THAT “WAS SWEPT BY THE WA- | TER FROM A REMARKABLE CLOUDBURST. s ORTLAND, June 15.—The Oregon- jan has received the following Ione, Or.: Below the ill-fated city the . resistiess tide drove on, threatening death and destruction to all in its-path, but couriers quickly mounted horses and fled ahead of the torrent down the valley to warn the people who lived along the stream. At Lexington and Ione the people fled to-the hillsides and remalned exposed to the rain and storm until the danger had passed. imptoviséd shelters the long night spent. 'Thé Qregon Railroad and Nav! of Willgw Creek from Heppner to its junc- tion* with-the Columbia at Heppner June- | | tion. In places the torrents rose over | the banks and spread to the fields, doing much damage to the hay and other crops. | At Cecils, thirty mi.es below Heppner, the flood: covered the valley, but by the time it had reached the back waters of the Columbia the force of the flow -was spent. i A special train was made up at The Dalles and a large number of citizens and bereaved ones: left for the scene of the disaster. . The roadbed is in good condi- tion to within fifteen miles of Heppner, | from whicK point teams brought lmml The Dalles will be used. To add to the discomfort of all another severe storm gathered at 6 p. m. to-day | and proke over the entire section. A | heavy rain had fallen, accompanied by violent lightning. At an early hour this morning every available horse and con- | veyance was dispatched to the scene from | ay the surrounding country. At 2 p. m. | i | advices were received at the Junction ask- | ing for cutside help to bury the dead, but | it is believed at this time that there is | ample_relief on the way. e ————— || FAST HORSE | "BEARS HERO | WITH NEWS IONE, Ore, June 15.—Less Matlock, a cousin of & man drowned in the flopd, killed one saddle-horse and Tode two oth- ers until they dropped usted in bringing the first news of the ! catastrophe from Heppuer to Jone. The horsemen arrived at Ione about 11:30 Sunday night, | naving coverea thirty miles in a I'| 1ittle over four hours. | | When the overwhelming extent | 9 of the cloudburst became appar- l ent Matlock jumped on omne of | the fleetest animals $0'be had at | that hour. With the rohr of the } flood and crashing of the ele- | | ‘| ments In his ears, his path beset | | Reltef Parties From flll Sections of the State of Oregnn Make | oo e ot | Haste to_the J}:ene of the Horror. - | - Continued From' Page 1, Column 6. rending spectacles on record, for this is the greatest disaster, as far as life loss is concerned, that the United States has seen since the Galveston stqrm. » Men stood and wept like whipped children. Women tore| their hair and rushed frantically | around. Children clung fright-! ened and crying to adults. From the few houses on the hills: left lights were secured and the rescue work began. No man slept last night. When day- light came, after twelve hours of nightmare and excitement . that bordered on insanity over fifty bodies had been pulled, bedrag- gled and slimy, from the water or picked up on the slopes on either side where they had been tossed. This afternoon twice as many more were found and by to-night the death list promises to reach 500. Not until morning was Heppner's catas. trophe known to the outside world. Every telephone wire for twenty miles was on the ground and will be for days. The telegraph wires were washed down and bridges taken away from this point to lone. The roadbed was torn up and wagon roads so filled with bowlders that trafic was well nigh impossible. There was no town in this wild cattle country nearer than forty miles from which news could be sent. Dave McAtee, a stockman, rode to Ar- lington with the tidings. All this time the town was trying to care for its own. Now the puzzle is what to do with the bodies. Undertakers' supplies are gone, corpses will not keep, there is no rafl- way communication out and no town of jmportance nearer than Pendleton, sixty miles away. Tt looks as if the men will have to bury their dear ones as they would their stock. Undertakers, how- ever, are coming in from 200 miles around. The flood seems to have descended in a solid body of water. It started with a heavy rain which gladdened the citizens' hearts because the crops of Morrow County were drying up from drought. As houses floated down the middle of the street, women and children could be seen waving their hands frantically from sec- ond-story windows. Some who stepped out into the flood were drowned, J. Ker- nan, an Oregan Railroad and Navigation Company operator, was drowned trying to cross the street ahead of the fiood. Had he stayed in the depot he would have been saved. This morning James Kelly found a six-months-old baby which had lain all night in the wréckage. Appar- emtly the infant was dead, but when the mud was washed off, brandy given and | to vote on it was set. The citizens be- ‘nue that with incorporation they can | secure a better government than they |have. The proposed town takes in the |town of Mayfield and College Terrace. A sewer system and otner improvements are -contemplated. ot A A | ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO PAY. ! Your druggist will refund your morey if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Ringworm, Tetter, Lom Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and B try Orders Solicited. e Pree for the Asking. 107-409-111-113 KEARNY STREET SAN FRANCISCO breath blown Into its mouth, it revived. All its people had been drowned, Innumerable dramatic incidents and close escapes aré narrated by survivors. To-night things are getting somewhat or- ganized. Assistance is pouring in in rigs from seventy-five miles in every direction. All Morrow County is depopulated. A hundred people have driven in from Pen- dleton, sixty miles away. Heppner is an old stock town, the county seat of Mor- row County. It is the terminus of the rafiroad branch from Heppner Junction. Wealthy stockm part of the population." "The town fs:so nearly wiped out that, with the bad crop, it will be crippled Snr years. List of Those Who Are Amang the or missing, as near as could be ascer- tained to-night, JAMES MATLOCK. MRS. TOM MATLOCK. J. 8. HOCKET and two children. SON OF WILLIAM AYERS. MANDY JONES. VASHTIA ANDREWS. PEARL JONES and family. children. STOLTER FAMILY. * TOM HOWARD, wife and three chil- dren. tom the _prlnclpll PENDLETON, Bradbury, rived here to-night. ‘As near as could Ore., June THE DEAD AND MISSING. He said: terrible flood which swept down Victims. JONE. Ore., June 13.—A list of the dead is as follows: to get out of its path. W. W. ALLEN, wife and daughter. “Brick and frame MRS. JAMES JONES. A. C. ICER. PERCY DAWSON. Navigation Company’s agent, JAMES WILLIS. he was carried down to death. Frank FRED KRUG, wife and four children. e, ME S AND MEL Ak weHoN San it Hart took the two Kernan chjldren, and she, too, was carried away. the two children were saved.” McBRIDE FAMILY OF SIX. . HARRIMAN, wife and father, of | PORTLAND, Or., June gressman_ Malcolm A. Moody, heading The Dalles T AND CHILD. ABE WELLS ar\d wife. Continued on Pnge 9, , Columa 4. ™ _ STRUGGLES FOR LIFE. 15.—A. P. a Portland traveling man, ar- be estimated this morning, 150 to 200 lives were lost in the Creéek:last evening. The creek, which or- dinarily is ten feet wide and six inches deep, in less than ten minutes was 400 feet wide and twenty feet deep. The wall of water could be seen coming down the gulch, bu. it rushed with such rapidity | that the stricken inhabitants had no time buildings whirled down stream for two miles and many bodies were strewn along the banks. P =g $ The residence portion suffered most. The Heppner Hotel was carried away, but the wired the news to Ione and then.attempted to es- cape from the rushing wall of water, but Kernan attempted to-save his wife, but Hart and HUNDRED . BODIEE BURIED. 15.—~Ex-Con- rellef party, graphed ‘the Oregonian from Ione at 12 ““The Dalles relict party remains here at every step by washouts, he eighteen miles in order to reach Iome. It was negessary to make Sy Sedouts gt ot tne ree- He nonod at & | rancher’s.and secired a fresh | | | 1 | | | horse when his had failed. He aroused the town with the news that Heppher had been destroyed and nearly all the pcople killed. Within two hours every avail- | able Tig was pressed into service | and started for the scene. Willow { ! —~*] as the railroad I go out to-night and until daylight, is badly | washed out above. ! will send reports by courier to-morrow if | wires are not up. Messenger from Hepp- | ner reports 100 bodies burled to-day.” | s g | “sral STORM AT THE DALLES. THE DALLES, Or., June 15.—The latest | reports received here from Ione, seven- BABY AND TWO BOYS. Palace Hotel was left standing, though| teen miles northwest of Heppner, on Wil- | MRS. NORA FLOREIN. B e e olO0r. rrent | 10W Creek, give the number of bodies re- | MRS AUA CURTIS and baby. and rescued Mrs. Elizabeth Matlock sug | covered at 30 and the total number esti: e h i S her husband, James Matlock, perished. | mated lost at over 500. —_“KERNAN X John M. Kernan, the Oregon Railroad and | Telephonic connection is cut off in every | direciion by the severest electric disturb- | ances ever experienced in the history of | the region. Two distinet storms hm-e“ passed over the town between & and 7 o’clock to-night, one bearing to the north- west toward the country.around Golden- dale, Wasp., the other to the southwest. No report has been had of the progress of the two relief trains which left here, The Dalles train at 1:30 p. m. and the Portland train, which passed through at 5 p. m. who is ——e————————— tele- NEW ORLEANS, June 15.—Within an hour of the time set for her marriage to-day Mise FHattie T. Thomas committed suiclde by taking laudanum. 'KITCHEN REQUISITES. Jim Dumps, at Buffalo, went through Large mills, and more delighted grew At every step. “How clean!” said he. . He saw them mingle skilfully Malt, wheat and sunshine—strength for him. “ And that makes ‘Force,’” nods “Sunny Jim.”. > -description of the cloudburst from | Crouching under umbrellas and | ation Company tracks follow the valley | |8t | Mayflower(new)July 16 Mayf | Dominion 8ICK HEADAGHE Positively cured by these Little Pills, | They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsis, Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A per- fect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drdwsi- ness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. ' They Regulate the Bowels. - Purely Vegetable. Small Pill, Small Dose. Small Price. OCEAN TBAVH. Steamers leave San Fran. cisco as follows Ketchikan, Junesu, c.. Alaska—11 a 10, 23, 30, Wor_ Victoria, Vancouyer, Y\'\fl Townsend, Seattle, Ta- ma, Everett, Whatcom— 1 a °10, 15, 20, 23, 30, July & ng to this company’s steamers N. Ry.: at Seattle for Ta- at I“Ilncmxverpm C. P Ry o (umbolllt Bay)—Pomena, PO Eae3. % 18, 21, 21, July 3: Corona, m., June 6, 12" 18 34 30, July 6. rt Los Angeles and For Los !A-EIQIQDB (via n;fl p- - Santa Rosa. Sundays, % a. ¢ California, L m. ;“o.r“l:u Angeles ia San Pedro and East Ean Pedro), Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Mon- terey, San Simeon, Cayucos, Port Harford (Sas Luis Obispo), Ventura and Hueneme. Cods Bay, 9 a. m., June 6, 14, 23, For Ensenada. ”l‘d&\en‘ Bay. San Jose Cato, Altata, La Paz Santa Rosalla, Guay- mas (Mex.) 10 a, m. Tth of each m« For further information obtalin folder. Right Is reserved to change steamers or sall. dates. "4 {SKET OFFICE— New Montgom- e Hotel). Freight Office. 10 Market street. 'NANN, General Passenger Agent, C. D. DUNANE. farket st.. San Francisea O. R. & N. CO. salls Jume 2, 12, 23, July 3, hlumm(.}(orxl W. Elder” salls May 28 27, July 7. 17, 27. 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