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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1910)
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Avenue and sidewalks are displaced; ': ; " v All this took place Saturday night , following what was evidently' a cloud burst in the mountains south and , irest of the city. Mill creek canyoa carried away , more water, than teal canyon and consequently damage to . city property was ; most ; severe In South La Cranfle.- " t Eeep All Sight Ti&Il. . Street Superintendent Matott draft, ed a large force of men Saturday , night and by, constant lighting du r- lng the night managed to tireveut as much adamage. as possible. The flow of water down Mill creek was such, however, as to forestall and tangible fight with Jt and the changed coum? could not be prevented. r m mmm I Practically every ; baaeajoat s,s. . 5 " Adams avenue la waterlogged today : as the ' result of the terrific CooJa which visited portion of jjulon coua ty last Saturday night N. avenue, First atreet and aeveral streets ad jacient to these two, were veritable canals along which light oljc-ctJ such as buckets, wood, brooms and other objects genertilly found around kit chen doors, wer transplanted down streets and lodged along sidewalks and mounds as the water receded. ' The stream under the sidewalk by the old L. D. S. Church was. a real river, carrying away Bldewalks' and ruining lawns In many places. f The down town districts - suffered mostly from surplus water W base ments.;. , C'; : '''--. ' The Foley Hotel hoatfcg ; pdlant was out of commission all Saturday night General trouble was exper ienced all along the street ' logged In the basement All day loug there has been a constant effort to rid the basements of water. ; Damage to the extent of about $200 was done yesterday to the new road constructed by the county a year ago Just below Perry. The enormous quantity of water that went down the river yesterday covered the hew stretch of road completely and did 4 little ' damage In places but the main portion of the road Is still. In tact. -:Mv 'r-:-M- '"MM-! - ; Bridge Superintendent Campbell has a force of men clearing the dif ficulty again and traffic can be re sumed by this evening. - The river was higher- yesterday than It has been this year. It started to recede but this morning went up again and by 10 o'clock had reached a point within eight Inches of the high Btage laBt night The crest of the flood has been reached, is believ ed by all those who are keeping In touch with events. , ' , . V Eace Swindler Sentenced ; Council Bulffa, la., March 21. C. May brayi the leader of the notorious gang of race swindlers and 1 Oasso clates were today sentenced to two years In the federal penitentiary at' Leavenworth and to pay a fine of $2000..:; ; ,M:a 'r-',;: .;-M in ON Now yl",;'rf:-Ji complete line of the above world. ;,V .; v f ; V famed ".ladles garments.' . .; X " Silks, Pongee, Wool Silks and Rubber 9 . " The spring suits . for ladles are strikingly, handsome this year. No previous season ever offered such a : delightful , variety of ' smart styles. .Our splendid new stock Is sojarge and so varied that dozens of becom ing modes can be found for every style of figure. s'H'S'v:-':'-'";' X-"': . Girls, If you have a pretty .foot, take ,1$ to,. The Fair and . have It en cased in a pair of their pretty shoes. We have them for every foot and for every, purse. 1 i " w T Li..ii..iLk.rf i.lw.i fin J 1 1..1 lt k lit - i i , . Two lives' were snuffed out ftnd th6 lives of many , others miraculously saved Sunday morning at o'clock when a light engine running down Kamela hill to help No. 6 up, jumped Mission and plowed into the hill with terrific force, and Inter ditching a westbound freight train, throwing an engine and seven cars .Into the Uma tilla river. -.Engineer I S. Risk and his fireman, Ed Hopple, were Instant ly killed. - Thes51 men were running down the hill at what must have been a high, rate of speed,' for the engine refused to "take the curve" and it plowed straight into the embankment It did not tip over , but cleared the rails ' so that the block would not "throw" notifying the engineer on the freight coming down 20 minutes behind, that there was trouble ahead, r The momentum on the light e'nglne which struck the bank was such that the law of motion was maintain ed, The coal in the tender "kept go ing" when the nose of the engine struck the. bank, and quick as a flash piled the engineer v and fireman against the boiler head. .Risk was terribly scalded and his body muti lated by' the beat of the bollef . and the force of the coal piled against him. Hopple escaped serious burns but was burled .under the "large amount of coal and was the last ex tricated from the debris. Thus ?vpar etly was it death of cha two men Tho engine was 215. Freight Strikes Light Engine. Twenty minutes ' later Engineer Robertson and Fireman Charles Wil- meters Dweio, : '-. A; J v i, U J . COATS Stock ! i. . t f . ' 'ithe council Informally and- ?r,rrt,nr!"n j , , - -.scuss .n 1" i onN running down the hill with freight train,, bumped into the pro-' message win be read vious wreck. : A portion of the ten- 8ad the tew, of3cial sworn In to der of 215 had not cleared the main- a,bt.-"; Routine matters will be at llne and this, was struck by the on-, tnded to on,T coming freight 'engine, S85. . ; Neit WedneS(laT n'Eht the' follow- : At this incUfit another miracle dc- f e-i city attorney, street superia- curred. The -firs engine had run jtendent' ter superintendent, city into the embankment on the left, but. audltor Pun(1 master, two night offl- t-- i. ' . t . PAfl AVI lflfA VAAnat tit TVmmwa. the oncoming , freight engine was pushed to the rfght and turned turtle1 Into the river several feet below the! track, The engineer . and fireman saw the obstruction In time to save their lives, Wilson leaping to the left and Robertson to the right. Rob ertson fell Into a wire fence and sev eral of the freight cars passed over his head and Into the river. ' ; Have XSracclons Escape -Running about 20 miles an hour. Engineer Henry Hensen and ' Fore man John Daniels had a narrow an escape from frightful injurest last Saturday night as well can be Imag ined, when the second section of No. Five went in the ditch near Durkee, following a heavy downpour of rain. Water had undermined the track at one point and the engine toppled ov er without the least warning, falling on its right side. The engineer was. of course, pinned to his Beat by the weight of the fireman, who had been hurled frotd hia side to that , of the engineer by the tip over, - Mud and water rushed through the engineer's window in great, volumes. With pres ence of mind, Daniels ' managed to get to his feet and making a way clear to escape, assisted Mr, Henson through the fireman s entrance which by that time was above the men, in stead of to the aide. They escaped without injury. ; Messenger Schults Escapes . Express 'Messenger . Schultze had an escape that was fully as bewilder ing. The baggage car was "thrown crosswise on the. track by the ditch ing . Trunks and packages carromed from one side to the other., but he escaped unhurt , Quick work by the wrecking crew from La Grande prevented any very long delay of , the trains from the East ; . No, 9 arrived last night at 12:35, and both sections of No. 5 fol lowed at about 1 o'clock. No. seven got in this morning at 6:20. Trains, are again running, on the Joseph branch, where the last slide Is reported to have done little dam age. The train yesterday was six hours late and one car had lost three sets of steps. - These were replaced this morning and the train went out oa tme. - HOPPLE ; A POPCLAB FIREMAN. TIctIm of wreck-was a young man with relatives In East. Davlfl Edward Hopple was twenty five yeara of age. ; His parents and three sisters livo In IlarriBburg, Pa. An older brother, V.'alter, is yard foreman .at Ruth, Nevada, and a younger brother, Harry, is also at that place. Word was sent to Wal ter Hopple yesterday, who Is on the way to meet the remains, which will be brought to his city. - " " Hopple was a member of the local Brotherhood of Railway Firemen and Engineers, ' -' ..':..' '. .. His room mate, Bert Williams, and four other firemen, representing, the Brotherhood, went to Pendleton yes terry to taie cHargU 6t tie body. .LAI AlTCISTrEMS L..; ur t: t rsl eoast!t wiih caa !1 X'ifere aypetatfag , Unkrs tirre ts a change la rlans tbis evtclns, the list of appointments for city a; yuInUve offlces usually nam ti ty th R'ayor elect, will not be mm-d until next Wednesday, when ' 5'ayor-tlect lleyers wishes to meet ice mayor ap poiuts but . the council ratifies, and in this way a meeting to discuss the , appolatrnents will avoid dlsquaHSca-a- tlons of any of the appointees. cers and gate keeper at the Beaver creek intake., . A . ; Reporta of all officers for the year will be read tonight, and this, with installation o fnew officers, will con sume the evening's business. Wreck In lown spells death to large number of persons. Chicago, March, 21.Rock Island railroad officials here say If bodies have been recovered from the wreck of a double-header passenger derail ed today at Relnleck, Iowa. It is reported,;. Ujot , the . totalnnmber of dead Is 25 and injured 24.' The train was bound for Minneapolis and run ning over the Chlcagq Great West ern tracks becauae the Rock Island tracks were blocked by another wreck. y ':,,,,(v"...',:::'1;,'-i'v ; List of Dead Grows ' ,r, " The latest reports from the Rein beck wreck say 42 persons were kil led and nearly twice that number In jured.'".;; -V;.' ' ' Relief and wreckln gtralos have gone to the scene. Automobiles car rying doctors and nurses are headed for. Marshall town where many of the injured were taken. . Telephone re ports say the wreckage is afire and that tho rescuers are fighting to save many people left in the debris of the wrecked cars. , f f. : r -y ;: A train carrying the dead and In jured has left the scene of the wreck for Marshalltown. . - - ' When .the engine left : the track, three cars piled upon them and fire broke out The cars destroyed were a baggage car. clialr car and one sleeper. .-"' ' ;; ;;' KILLED INSr.lASIIUP for Dependable Medicine When sickness comes or whenever there is any need ot -medicine yon want the purest and most potent to be Lad. It may do to take chance in some things, bat not in this. We ask yon, therefore, whenever yon have a prescription to be filled, ; or any medicine to be rxocured, to remember, that this la a store that emphlslzes qnallty. We have the best drufci that money can buy and we make a specialty of the compound- . ing ot physicians prescriptions or ot household recipes. Whea yon set medicines here ypu can feel that you can depend r . ' m 'hom friF m iHln 5 I W I nrv u f ; i ." 1 i : r '7 r" u It m aL jt Us J I LUb4i lit i.4.L TTOST E2 AELE TO GAIN tUlES C02JSITTEE S2AT34- BecmcrtTMcBt today that rcpilarj, can control iltna'Jon after "l anl tiat insBrsnt victory Is merely a It The iaswjents sccia conSdest." aaway. " Washlncton, March 21-r-Among tha . matters to be taken up by the new rules committee oj the ' house after organization are 23 measures on which the old committee had taken . no action. They include many mat ters, it is declared, that were sup-, pressed by Cannon. The new com mittee is expected to have a big task.' It was admitted today that Cannon 1 forces will control the caucus that names members of the committee and it is Deuevea tney wm Attempt capture a majority, thu leaving the insurgents only a paper victory. , The greatest reeult ol tho rule revolution in the present Juse bo far . as the present session con cerned will be a full discussion, f tha Taft legislative program on the oor, according to Insurgent leaders today. : "No matter how the new commute h on rules is constituted" said Norrla of Nebraska today "It has been de- elded that the house can decide for itself what it wants. . No matter what the new committee may do the hous Itself will have the last to say, It , is believed the victory was a step toward fulfilment of the platform pledges of the party." Indications are today that the In- , eurgenta will have no place on th rules committee, "; -'Today's session of the house la without incident. Routine : buslncsa was transacted and there is nothing to Indicate the turbulent times of Saturday. . The Democrats blame the) Insurgents for Cannon's final victory 'The insurgents showed a yellow streak," Bald Sims of Tenn.. ' Champ Cark is pleased with the re sult Things are in better chapa ' than for" 20 years, he says. " " ' u j. . . i .'. a MANTED Girl for general - hquB work. Five dallars per week for good girl. , Enquire Observer S-21-25 v 1 - ' . V ,4