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PEINEVIME, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 18, 1903.
NO. 27
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Great Loss of Life at Heppner.
The Worst Disaster Ever Chronicled on The
Pacific Coast.
A cloud which burst on the hills
a mile smith of Heppner at about
5:30 o'cock Sunday afternoon let
loose a hungry flood of wa!r,
which swept down the hillside in a
wall ,10 feet high and 20(1 yards
wide. Reaching the bottom'of the
canyon, the liquid avalanche rear
ed its mighty front over the doom
ed town, and carried to destruction
iciirly every building and human
licing that lay in its path, leaving
a waste of desolution to mark its
trail. The, destroying torrent
raced down the narrow gorgo of
Willow Creek, inundating as it
reached them, the tcttlwncnU of
Ij'xington, lone and Douglas, but
lessening in fury and in volume
as tho thirsty alkali soil of the
valley drank up the water like a
ponge. Unbind it lay rtearly 800
lend, drowned like ruts. in a trap.
The suddeness oft he catastrophe
gave the victims no warning, over
whelming them for the main trap
ns they sat within their homes.'
Immediately after the fatnl flood
had wiped the major portion of
Heppner out of existence, swift
couriers on horseback sped to warn
the residents of the valley toward
the Columbia of the coming peril.
Lessio Matlock, son of an ex-Sheriff
of Morrow County, rode a wild ride
for 18 miles ahead of the raging
waters. His horse dropped dead,
but ho secured another, and again
another, covering the 65 miles to
Arlington iu soven hours. To this
Paul llcvere of Oregon is undoubt
edly duo the fact that the ranchers
of the Willow Creek country below
Heppner lost so little stock and
property.
The Palace Hotel was the first
building to stem the tide, and all
the guests were saved; but houses
below "tho Palace Hotel wore
thrown out into tho street, over
turned and wrecked. The resi
dence of C. A. Rhea was carried
away, and the entire family, con
sisting of bis wife and three
daughters, and Miss Adkins, a
cousin, were lost. Mr. Rhea hinv
self was absent in Portland, at
tending the Masonic convention.
C. K. Red dole, "whoso residence
was completely destroyed, was al
so absent with Mr. Rhea in Port
land, and his wife and baby were
drowned. Tho body f Mrs. Red-
lield is among the recovered. A.
C. Geigor's house was carried away
and Mr. (lieger drowned. IHb
family is in tho East.
iteorge uonsor B house was
next, but the family succeeded in
saving their lives by rushing to
the upper story, the house being
carried down tho creek three-quarters
of a mile. When reached by
the rescuers they found that the
house had been cut in two, and
Mr, Censor was standing in water
up to his lift k, holding his wife
upon tho roof, and keeping her
from slipping with his outstretch
ed arms."
Dr. MeSword and J. Avers, who
were living in the same residence,
were drowned, Oscar Miner's house
was next demolished, and Mrs.
Miner drowned. The rest of the
family succeeded in saving their
lives by climbing to the roof. All
of the Wells family but two were
lost and tho house carried away.
Willi the Wells residence went the
houso of tieorge Swaggert. Mr.
Swnggert's two married daughters
wero Jrowned, with their five chil
dren.
L. 1). Colby, a rancher,. whose
house is almost on the banks of
Willow Creek, near Cecil, 31 miles
from Heppner. said the flood went
past his lesidence at 5 o'clock this
morning.
"We had no notice of its com
ing," said Mr. Colby, "except a
low roaring sound. We looked
out at the creek, and the water
was rising in it rapidly. In a lew
minuti-s the little creek swelled in
to a torrent, and great quantities
of hay and driftwood came rushing
past on its surface. At this par
ticular point the banks of the
creek are quite high, and while the
flood did not overflow them, it ate
great holes in tho soft loam, and
the channel appears to have been
slightly altered. The crest of the
flood soon passed, but the cieek is
still very much swollen."
A mile or so above the Colby
ranch is the farm of C. C. Curtis.
Here the waters burst from the
river banks and rushed over sur
rounding meadows, sweeping a
good hundred tons of newly-cut
bay from the fields where it lay
stacked, and ssattering it broad
cast over the valley. At Douglas,
six miles further up the valley,
the cloudburst did little damage.
The residents had been warned of
tho coming peril by Leslie Mat
lock, of Heppner, who made a wild
ride from the stricken town to
Arlington. At Douglas Matlock
gave his hurried warning about
midnight, and within 30 minutes
the creek liegan to rise. The ex
treme height was not reached un
til 4 o'clock in the morning. The
The torrent overflowed its banks
at several pianos in this vicinity,
but beyonp drowning few hogs
and spoiling some hay, did little
damage. In one field all the pil-
cd-up hay was floated by the
water and carried to the fence.
Here kindly barb-wires detained
it and the subsiding flood left it
hung on the fence to dry.
At lone immediately after the
alarm all the townpeople fled to
the bills on the same side of the
creek upon which the town iB built,
with the exception of seven people,
who live close to the bridge aoross
the creek, and who rushed across
the bridge to tho hill on that side.
Two old ladies, Mrs. Aero and
Mrs. Sheldo, and Tom Colvia, his
wife and two children were those
who sent the entire night on that
side of the river. Nearly all the
other townspeople returned to their
homes by 3 or 4 o'clock in the
morning. ( When Mrs. W. J. Blake
returned she was obliged to wade
knee-deep in mud and water
through her yard. Mrs. Blake is
prostrated from the excitement,
About 100 persons have been
buried in Heppner's graveyard to
day. Owing to tho entire absence
of proper facilities for caring for
the dead, the victims of the flood
were, for the most part interred in
common crates. The ghouls, who
are usually found, like human vul
tures, rifling the pockets of the dead
in such great dissaster as the one
which has stricken Heppner, are
in this cose fortunately absent,
and the vigilance committees and
patroila which wero bo neccessaay
at Johnstown and Galveston floods,
seem to be unncccessary in Oregon.
A phone received by Postmaster
Summers slates that up to last
evening 2(15 bodies, hail boon re
covered and that the first estimat
ed of the loss of life were nearly
correct.
Mr. Cleveland has gone fishing
and M r. Gorman has gone to Eu
rope. Only the silver tones of the
peerless leader calling his thousand
dollar heifer is left to cheer the
hearts of the downcast Democrats.
The estate of the late Thomas B.
Reed foots up to nearly half a mil
lion dollars. He retired from (he
8Hukersbsp a poor man and made
all this money in New York. A part
of it was made in his law practice,
but the bulk of it came from stock
speculation on suggestions given by
H. II. Rogers, the Standard oil man.
In other words, his savings rep
resented fees and tips.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
Oulllngs From Our Exchanges
News Not of the Week-
Timely Topics.
According to the Klamath Falls
papers that city (till has a case
or two of smallpox.
Rev. J. II. Howard and family,
of Silver Lake, passed through the
city Thursday homeward bound.
It is freely intimated that there
are some things about President
Roosevelt's Cabinet which give
him Payne.
A coaling station in Alaska would
prove so valuable to our revenue
cutters that its establishment is
warranted, regardless of the re
moteness of war with Canada.
Denmark is not the only place
containing something decayed.
There has been apparently a good
deal of rottenness of late connected
with postmarks.
Miss Stone is goning back to
missionary work in Turkey. She
had better be careful. They still
need the money over there, and
next time are apt to raise ransom
rates.
Ex-Minister Wu Tin Fang has
been given a subordinate position
in Peking. He must feel this
keenly, and the commencement
season in full blast in the United
States, too.
At a meeting of the County
High School Board held lost Satur
day, the Fair Grounds were select
ed as the location upon which will
be built the High School building.
Prof Ullery is the probable princi
pal.
Postmaster Summers' salary has
been raised from $1200 to IHOO
per year. This equals the increase
given Salem, Astoria and other
much larger cities, and is only ex
ceeded by Sumpter, which office
was raised $300.
It is announced that active work
will soon be commenced on the
state portage railway to be built
around the Celilo rapids. Chief
engineer A. t. Hammond is en
gaged at present in malting a sur
vey of the route and estimates of
its cost.
An Episcopal clergyman not
long ago was being shaved by a
colored barber whowas addicted to
occasional sprees. The razor ma
nipulator cut the parson's face
quite considerably. "You see,
that comes from taking too much
drink," said the minister, hoping
that this might prove to be an in
valuable lesson to him. "Yes,
sah," replied Jackson; "it makes
de skin very tendah, sah; it do for
a fact."
The good people of Burns were
recently treated to display of me
chanical skill iu the form of a $3000
automobile, and they immeiiatly
concluded that it must be the fore
runner of a railroad. Should they
see a toy balloon floating over their
city on the coming Fourth, they
would doubtless exercise the same
imaginative faculty and herald it
as a forerunner of an airship line.
There would lie about as much
reason to it.
A Kansas paper gets off the fol
owing: In reply to the question,
"who pays the expenses of the
president's junketing trip?" Wil
liam Allen White says: "It is a
stocky built man with a ratty
mustache, a font of double pica
teeth, and a jaw set with a Yale
time lock; a man rather below me
dium height, inclined to be pussy,
with a voice that needs a composi
tor a man named Roosevelt T.
Roosevelt, to be accurate. He is
the first president of the United
States, in recent years, who has re
fused all courtesies from the rail
roads and pays his way, and by
the same token he is the first presi
dent in recent years whom the
railroodsare going to fight."
Tha Htffnmr lUmmHt Tun.
As we go to press the committee
consisting of Messrs T. M, Baldwin,
C. I. Winnek, Mayor M. K. Brink,
and Geo. Summers made g partial
canvas of the business houses and
raised $300 for the Heppner suffer
ers. This amount will be added toto
day and shows the publio spirit of
our citizens. Show us another
town the size Prineville that would
do better.
Later. The committee had
raised up to this morning $351.75
and expect to have about $100 to
send on today's mail to thote en
gaged In the work of relief at
Heppner.
Ulemaiaf wnm Hwr.
Hawkins Bros, have resumed
work at their saw mill.
1 Grandma Hawkins and ber
daughter Lizzie were visitors at
John Demaris' last Sunday.
Alfred Hoee has been haulinir
lumber for Clyde Hon for the past
two weeks. Clyde is preparing to
build a bam; also a creamery.
The first singing of the season.
was held on Sunday last, at,the
Howard school bouse. Singing
every Sunday at 2 oclock, p.m.
nvery noay invitea.
A. C. Knighten and wife, made a
flying trip to Mill Creek saw mill
last Monday for the purpose of
bringing home a little deer, that
had been left at Mr.Birdsong's for
Zella Dyer.
Some half dnxen Fnatam hntrm
who homesteaded in this part of
ine country last tail, are now build
ing cabins on the snme. Th..v
contemplate a pleasant summer
hunting and fishing, with perhaps
aii occasional uear thrown in.
Miss. Josie Andrews, nf Rwwt
Home, closed a verv snccMftfnl tarm
of school, in this district on last
rnaay. Her sister Miss Ora who
is teaching at Combs flat spent
oamruay ana uunuay witn Miss
Josie, at the home of J. W. Wright.
Henrv Cram, wife unit Miu Vul.
lie Mc Daniel were on a pleasure
trin lnat ftimlav at M. fi.
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mine which is located on a spur
oi LooKout mountain. On the re
turn trip Mr. Cram was rlrivincr at
about the same speed as an automo
bile. Still I think the storm
caught them.
Owinsr to the repent ruins pmna
are looking their very best, Al
though We Would not cunt In ha
favored with many such storms as
occured last Sunday evening. It
Commenced with a terrific hail
storm, in some places, bail fell as
large as small hen eggs, ending
with a regular down pour.
narr Ffstes.
C. Henry and W. A. Carson start
to town today.
Walter Morrin
trip to Prineville last week.
H. H. HawlftVWAHllrtino hnainrao
in Prinevilie tho first of the week.
Aleck Mackintosh nnsaeil th
here Tuesday on his way to Port
land, where his wife is quite low.
Our school, which heiran Mnv 1H
is progressing nicely under the able
management of Mrs. H' H. Hawley.
Mr. J. W. Rennett h.a Iran nn
the sick list for several days, suffer
ing with the erysipelas on his foot.
Henry Cox is suffering from a
lame foot, having been kicked by
one of his horses a few days since.
Several of our girls are planning
a picnic on Moury mountain, at
the old mill, for the Fourth of July.
The first wool of the season pas
sed through here on the way to The
Dalles, last Sunday.
This district has been treated to
a series of thunder ulinwnn. n,i,;ni.
have gladdened the heart of our
iurmers,
Mrs. S. Glenn and daughter,
Miss Mary, of Prineville, are spend
ing a few days on Mrs. Glen's farm,
attending to business matters.
C. A. Luclling and fumilv n,
anticipating a trip to the Valley in
a week or bo. They will visit
friends and relatives nt P,,riln.l
and Oregon City.
Mike Brown met with rat!..
serious accident lastTnnulav tu.
ing caught out in ashowcrhestart-
eu to me uouse lor his coat; wish
ing to take the nearest way, he was
in the act of getting under a barbed
wire fence, when the fence was
struck by lig'itning, the shock ren
dering him unconscious for several
minutes, and the wire burning his
suouiuer.
Vivian.