The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1906, Page 1

PAY ONLY . ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE pT EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Oooasional Light Rain Tonight and Sunday; Light West Winds. i FATALITY IN eld FLOOD SITUATION iS ‘All Danger of Further Damage Is Past--Rail- roads, However, Are Effectively Tied Up and Nothing Can be Done for Several Days-- | Coal Beginning to Arrive and Monday Will See a Supply on the Market. Greffield Expires Suddenly in Her Cell at} County Jail--Heart Disease Said to be fause of Death, Although Autopsy Reveals Organ in Good Condition, PARKA AAA AA ARERR RRR RR DS! fthern will not be able to move Everywhere the flood sit improved and there is r J, cart oF west, before Mor | danger of oe y at the earliest. The Northern the yth Farmers and others who have suf. | Pacific I be tied up for a week | fered fina y are just beginning | at least on its own tra tinental to ascertain their losses, but it ¥ t begin operations over the be many efore eve ap G t Northern and via Portland The coal situation shows signs of | Joe Smit taff vernent. The Seattle Electric | t f T t ring from Ren acit red a train-load for " « t avensdale, and to- A : y tomorrow there may te 6 exaggerated e milk famine wt over, al- } The re 4 situation ie about as | th etomer not supplied | bad as t could be The Great | with the usual qua ties WATER AT SOUTH PARK DROPPING FUPFPESE EES EIE SESE EE EERE ED > : sient bia * th the water receding at the {age during the flood and the place . oat : a" i ‘ erted except for one > Be. second story of their * a ao ae te : wr ¢ pe « water by but a | ; the situation atlfew inche #@ they stayed by od | th » ft « rit Two of the mem- RESIDENCE AT BLACK RIVER STATION ON THE INTERURBANS<THE ONLY HOUSE OUT OF WATER IN THE NEIGHBOR. han atany other pertod dur were suffering MAUO CREFFIELD. 3" HOOD,—SEVEN FAMILIES SPENT TWO DAYS HERE. mr inued to F as ep ee PToTTPESETCTCC CST LeeLee a seh eeeeerae same ee ee a, stn 4a ental Oe ee @ 2 & &) oot by Mre Croffiekt’s death, Her he 1 1 three hours : * grief, however, was tearless. She ago whe was at ite highe tn n the waters LIKE SUICIDE *\ answered the questions of the t y P rate to save the — * guards without the slightest con coustr Last « ¢ cloe > te from inundation. Two analysis of Mrs. # fuston t ‘ [ t he minutes after they finally decided Stomach has “She was all right when we went , “ ’ p the fight. Over 40 yards By the coroner. @ to hed,” she told the sheriff She | comp: mt ke went out with @ rush symptoms of @ was in my arme when she f le f river bridg and the hundred working along id not material @ first pats. She screamed Ag fond t affic w he dyke bad barely time to reach jautopay over the wo # f 4. 1 called the other women, : ! ! the evening the t is his morning. On * who called the jaflers », whe did the wate gan to rec and s Are Small, the heart seemed @ got take poison. She di hare ¥ o'clock th orning * it c ly impossible to es . good com @ any and wouldn't have taken it it} jhad f r fox 1 f timat ¢ lo h will result Finding by the © she did. Send a mossage to Mr ward the atre car compapy row 1 in the lower portions a & _ the theory of @ Hurt, please. Let me stay with the amed running elr care to t { the astered hous. vary strong one a ® body j (Conyriatt. 1 a News | end of must be repaired, weakened mare minute *| When the body was removed to} a fo ete: BE Serene ewe tm 5 eres 40 8 t jons replaced by stronger prove death to jailer’s office, the single mourn-| NEW YORK, N ‘ wo, | MeNa one cos rebuilt and plank fe neuraigia of @ or went with it. She knelt do ‘nai the heavy | nes ° * who =| Portion t sda pulled back to the right of | Seelie it, and from time to ume S0@ Smith Tells of the Effects of the High sre dines wie roed many houses (oe moos 50 Beers ange. vay vere has. been toms of ®| covered the face with kisses. When | cat Doweriey be aoréerty éoltnt 06 apex trengthoned mm is part of the valley, bat Rete eee ® che doar 4 rrive ort) | and Sve stock hed been moved to bee leacks of sand be of stock are suff lil be dead wagon arrived. shortly at] Water in the White and Stuck Valleys= jitter around int se the bien urt thin morning, His « name Thor yl rhe Rampton ig iow 2 im the remarka chet the wheeling " : : ground was immediately adjac 4 pabomh b Page ssrik £1 ~ scvcevar eee a them by boats this mornt ic ling figure and/ Mra. Graham, « 5 ent society nem by 8 morning. enter an said Bz Taversed Entire Distance on Foot. there: had at ao time been any werl-| Nom Oven wsthrggoed fo . The town council of South Park its first wie She will have to go now, (ous danger : ee an > High ste aay Paros pede | 4 Riverside are already making and Geo. Mitch) garner icisecciearislian By; skirting or wading the tater: ii: an |danger was ove plane for extensive improvements the grim “3 vom eens OS Water WHER 65 Water Drain na Slowly. n the MeNatt dyke which in hold- fall last nig Kisses Bead Sedy. BY JOE SMITH. the second farm below the tended into the coves every few ' h slower in ing, saved thousands of dollars rtions of worth of property. The half mile than in the of plank road that connects the sub- valley as this urb with the hills to the west will the valley be pulled into pla before the subside. Relief committees g formed and South park for all sufferers in their Creffieid.at whose’ The girl rose, and « : td C tr ’ ing ber-| In many quarters the stories of | mm Pacific ratiroad bridge bundted yards | made my way i Mitchell she fm a chair, watehed the under | danger and «offering a result of 2¢rome the Stuck river, When the far @s the farm of Clar Mor i ibrether, fei! dead into takers spatemsfcally ae they Te the floods in the White and Stack Jom Jam which formed in the White rit, within « mile of girl who. ¢ th « have been and are |Tiver Wednesday morning diverted| was pt that farm that | rough moved the body from the room, and river ¥al arose * from that stream had been lost earlier ‘ede of by @ murderess she remained aflont until she heard being at - mee «gio 4. ©. 0 Kk they carried with whi c was being driven . ae an t quant! frogp.the low fields to the higher } ils é r brosh land pt Prank MeCarty’s farm just t RY - t je trees a Httle farther down the val Ney. ro gpl age Bb ‘ h * under water and These} By the time I reached there it Many of t le left th hol- | waters aily exaggerated. The perty lose and damage as been the (them Climax to « case the ponderous door clank, the k Re stranze phases, jingle, and the receding footstep he interest of the «row faint. Then «be gave a chok- | flooded area, but ther pablic of the ing sob and covered her face + danger, practically po suffert enormous in that portion of has been Hit t ear service which has minutes on ac- $a4 In which hands wi no actual loap of life : fh ‘ | i. ’ terrible nem The tragedy caused areat con ent appiles © leas wt the railroad well along after dark and impo | the beginning of the cour ower has proven upon the fuston in the women’s, ward of the fitions along the Do arried out the aiBip for me to make my way water t great number y Jequate to meet the de- fn the fall months the eighteen {t wamish and lower Puyallup where of that steve aropad the heads coves through . the secon mands ¢ people and during the ‘ death in mates were intimate friends of the the danger has © greater and ‘ore it the county bridge the: Beary underbrush and down | (Copyright, 1 by Scripps News | « oe hb hours cars are crowded fang fe ite sudienoe> lead woman. 14 their intimacy jouw of life has been reported in a Jest below it timber. The water in the roa 7 Association | { th st dan eyond capacity Pecelved by the had grown into lore few inatances, “Hut in the White fiut with all ite fores the currentiahetd was too deep to be forded) MINNEAPOLIS, N A sum heavy steel frame, With safety, so I turned from the gestion of huw the lab Of anything wr Aunie Rooney, best known com river valley south of Kent and in va cell was when th viet In the county jafl refused to be the Stuck valley north of Sumner ork of the rattroad bridge bat «| tee8 and followed a tral) up the bin ~~ R oni mere Seep at | «k comforted. th was little danger to human be ort dietan no it lodged tn the tm Bie hope of making my way o * ia s " rate am Th * Brother Present. ines and Hitle or no actual suffer. |Middle of the stream lens than 160)im that direction to some place | Amerienn Federation of Labor dele d to the woman's ing beyond the inconvenience of Yards below, forming th nucteus where I coald remain for the olaht. getes rer enting nies @ Strange «ich Deputy Coroner Wiltsie and Dr. oo ving out of flooded homes in a of another tremendous 5 This The trail at first was we marked m Fifty V comvalsi rely 4 with} Powers assisted Coroner Carroll to oo. instances jam it was that diverted the rag butedt proved later to be skid-| Roosevelt, 19 ¢ fim her body hing,| making the autopsy this morning . ing waters of the river both ways/road long since abandone and! Mearet, ¢ for Tar Sheriff lL. Smith and a number o Newspaper Man's Story. around ft to cut new channels, It while it only led me « a wilder Ca nm, Secretar ity phyaictans were present Of all the newspaper men was the westerly of these channele goote chase for more than a m Root. Others voted for 0 the flooded distri which ate away the farm of Mr. Cor | where it disappeared completely | ent men Frank Hurt, brother of Mrs. Cref-| patehed | field, was at Bonney-Watson's dur am the only one, so ss tam able tin and several acres of land bein aniimpenetrable forest Milk began coming {nto Seattle, Vernon and Fir in Skagit county tng the autopsy, but evinced no de- to ascertain, who traversed the jonging to C. D. Hillman, adjacent Lost on Skid Trail. again y jay afternoon. nd | bring the {nformation that, on ac- sire to be present at the official whole of the White and Stuck river to Pacific City, while the easterly 1 retraced my steps, found o new lairymen made their count of the blockade of roads and examination. He seemed deeply valleys The journey was made current undermined the barn of J. trail feading from the old one, and rounds t with a limited suy the destruction of bridges, the farm- grieved o his sister's death chiefly on foot and req the § Rainey foliowed that out upon a forest) for their custome normal ers will be unable to get into those O. V. Hurt, tather of Mra. Cref- | great rtion of three days, but It) ar the Corbin farm the river ate road. Thie appeared to be running! ACCUSERS supply will not be resumed again | places with their milk for days to on field, who was wired last night at enabled to visit ali the places away its banks foot by foot, allow-| = until some time next w , nan | Corvallis, Ore., has not been heard. whe lous damage was reported ling Mr, Corbin ample time to ae | _“qontimued 08 Page Seven) _ | At 2 o'clock this morning a steam — from. and to see with my own eyes Ct semble hia neighbors to assist him . er arrived from Stone's Landing LaConner Under Water. Sheriff Refu to See Anyone. ally what was taking place to remove everything which was) HARGES ee ae with a big shipment of milk, which (Star Special Servic the com father Mitc I's stony apathy of Many wild and conflicting storie® | mova They moved everything} ‘SAILOR C had been hauled overland to that BELLINGHAM, Nov. 1 —Tele- . Buepecting th « afternoon into a bave been told, for Instance about from the house even to the win wens Comite’: ‘a tol place from Auburn, and last night one advices from Mt. Vernon, awe Caused the tr ». The gir lizes the lows of the farm and home of J ws aod doors, moved the emailer EAT CRUELTY ‘I - re Fred Hack | chipments were brought in over the te t search of the cell + before that she _C- Corbin Stuck, but I am the {dings intact, took away fences, | cncenaaten Gadawen Gente Northern Pacific and Columbia & iin the Skag er dike oppo- of a drug could,| is alone in ber fight for her life, OMly newspaper man who visited |trees, vines, and even berry bushes, judae G . Puget Sound railroads. that city, causing @ heavy Dg ond that the lows of Mrs. Creffield’s the place and | arrived th Thur® | and harvested euch root crops and mere mime sisted nated “ Parra With # partial resumption of traf.) which is augmented about a mil featu f , 1 mean much to her in “47 afternoon just few minute® | garden stuff as still remained In the adit han Wek wht Glued Ghent an | fie an * Northern Pacific up the below Mt. Vernon from smalle® A Warrant has b ground areest of Captatn John A “Fine Celery,” er valley, the mijk sup treams, the whole uniting in t source will be re buge deluge, which has completel € Med the LaConner flats, thd 7 »wn of LaConner being under w death before the house tumbled into t raging stream and remained to seo it fall. At that hour the neighbors f/\der arrest. Copeland and Hacker harges of disor-| t are f disor-| sumed and will be possible get additional milk from the f to escape om man were up on ¢ But Submerged. [ing whaler Rowhead, on the plaint of J, H. Melsen, one « derly conduct, but both were so em a now confined in the walked across frame of ty of ne office of \were helping Mr. Corbin to move! A . h ul 1 On " ram if the oft f Se haus, Wve: seek and ether porte nthe Hine | erewy Belsea unte a horr phatic and unanimous in th dec-lors who supply the conden te No loss of life is reported. The : the county jail, where, hls he ee ee ee ee oe eee Pacifig tale Bt crusitien, alleged to have /Torations that the whole ¢ Jants to make up any d cy| water ts extremely high at Stay “ ter Mrs. Cref. #00 been inflicted on him and other | sulted from the conduct . t lity te mil and FY de Wr of reticine taken to the under Trees Torn Out by Roots City Is located in the middle of a ree eee the Bowhead was in! patrolman, who was unne at ig: op hae get ag hg ye ee reat 5 t reat natural swamp whic be ' r throu < ace . Do skifts. ; Mitchell Shocked iment. She now ab-| Mr. Corbin's place Is, or rather en sys a ms Andre r eg the Aretic, Cruel beatings, he sald, | rough, that Judge Gordon suspend obeasiee ved by local intik | Nerthera br on the Skagit at her Mitehel) was ¢<: B slutely refuses to see anyone was, on the west bank of the |’ ‘table. In the contral| Wate ammost dally occurrences ed judgment ealore th ing from Mount | Mt. Vernon ha ‘one out making it be portion of the townsite there was! no flood water, though the surface Gedro-Woolley Cut Off water was everywhere and houses (Star Special Service.) . irrounded. Further down {0| @yt9RO-WOOLLEY, Nov. 17 jadditions Two, Three and Four to) ngtepmone advices Indicate that th Pr ity the fl waters were ley between this city and H backed up from the river, in some! jitgn te completely flooded places as much yur to wix fect! Great Northern t deep and the only thing left stick-| peated at various ing out *'# | Ciieting reports have anid wig UN; ty, but nothing reliable ¢ lorlying was “the finest celery land | ing the situation can b # announcing At almost every house on my @n-| aad telegraph service is crip and by every 5 I met on th Leavenworth Dam Weakens. I i f , th " ld be in le f n (Star Special Service.) to my ' h to, T SPOKANE, Noy. 17.—-A coma, but I ‘ n back.| portion of the big dar I luce 1 n 1 owne math portion will be saved ‘ I a i a ah wa \ w F ri I ® be rec “ phe Puya rt : , Pt. Townsend Wants C t pr. Te ' i] i 0 t tn pees : . pth of f five feet. | o@ 1 ut Cows Drowned. this ¢ t ‘ \ pecenerenatl ever | le 1 waded thene | pit : this P bi THE FRONT YARD OF A SOUTH PAI or passed a th ' WHEF “1 vi HIGHEST AT SOUTH PARK walt | | [|