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Vol. XVI.--N0. I.
QORVALLIS, OREGON, JUNE 1903.
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Philomath, Oregon. "
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. Physician and Surgeon; ' .
tfBnildmg, Corvalbs, Or. Office Hours,
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NOTARY PUBLIC. "
Office in Zierolf Building, CorvalHs. Or.
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OEEaON
MANY HOMELESS.
FLOOD AND FIRE DESTROY
' . ', : 4 " KANs as : town. ;
Burning Buildings Floated in the
j Flood Cries ior iEEelp Heard a ,
j Mile Away A River Five ,
Miles Wide Other ; :
. News.
Topeka, May 3o. Fire has added
to horrcr of the great flood how pre
vailinz here.. Four hundred hous
es in North Topeka . were " burned
this afternoon, and that whole sec
tion is doomed. ' As near as can be
learned, 150 people are, dead, most
of them beins burned , to death. A
request for aid has been sent to the
Kansas City fire "'department, .' It
will be met, but 'the condition of
the railroad" tracks prevents any
fast time " V
i The '"wrole c?ntral 7 prtu ri . of
North Topeka had been burned out
at 10 dclock tonight, and it' is safe
to sy by morning not a house will
be left standing. ' When it is stated
that North Topeka has 10,000 ,in:
habitants'. the exteht bf the disasf
ter can he' calculit-ed. The pepple
are climbing to the roofs of houses
and th limbs of trees j and many
are giving up in despair and drop
ping into the water' below to be car
ried away by the swift current. "It
is death by fire or drewning of 200
people lio less means Can '- be found
for 'the rescue.' 1' Great efforts 'are
being niade ' to 'construct , a '.-kteam
laupch to' go to the aid of the euf
ferers,' but whatever 4s done .mvst
be done promptly Gir the loss of life
will . be appalling. "A. ' pontoon
bridge is also, under construction. '" '
Burning 'Jl6ixetd':. ' are 1 floating
about, setting Are to othrs. The
lower stories of tbe" burning" build
ings contain 10 feet of water; " The
current is sp strong that no boat
can approach any of the burning
buildings; Hundreds of people are
gathered on the tops of houses; and
the cries for help can be distinctly
heard a mile away. The whole city
is: wildly, excited . because of the
fact; that no aid can be extended to
the sufferers. , ' ;
' The river at North Topeka is five
miles wide. No possible estimate
of the financial loss can be stat
ed. It will run into the millions.
North Topeka: was the manufactur
ing district of the city.. Three large
flour mills, three wookn . mills and
other manufacturing . establish
ments are entirely ' destroyed;' The
water supply of the whole city has
been cut off; ; The water r from the
river extends nearly a mile on the
south side. .' The Bock Island depot,
has bad to be abandoned, and more
than 500 people on this side of the
river are also homel- ss( but no loss
in South Topeka. .'The Kansas av
enue bridge is the ouly - one across
the fiver for'' miles, and ' the ap
proach to that bridge is flooded
by'3o feet of water; ': r V';. ; ;v
S -ven thousand or more people
are on this side of the river shelt
ered in public buildings and in the
homes of citizens. v Topeka is .now
able to take care of all the unlor
tunates.. The work of caring for
the refuges is being puehed with
the most rapidity. Standing on
the state house dome, as many as
8o fires can ba counted in different
parts of North Topeka.
A. P; Baldwin, who at ereat risk
to his life crossed in a boat to the
North Side, returned at ten o'clock
tonight, and reports that nothing
possibly can be done ' to save the
city from burning. :;' :
Oakland, a suburb, five miles
northeast of Topeka, is deserted.
The .'people'' began leaving at 2
o'clock this afternoon after having
been warned by the pity engineer.
An unconfirmed report from Wa
mego and 'Manhattan, west of To
peka, says another "rise is coming
down " the Republican and Blue
Rivers. ' If this is true, the situa
tion here will be grestly intensified.
The fire on the east side of Kansas
avenue in North Topeka is rapidly
taking the remaining buildings.
The fire is going toward the wind,
and this will serve to check its pro
gress,- but tbere is so much burning
wreckage floating about that the de
struction of the remaining houses is
regarded as certain It is reported
that two boats goaded ; with people
were s warn ped and that a dozen or
more, were drowned .
I Shorey, another, suburb of Tope
ka, .is now inundated . The . Jack;
son schoolhouse shelters . 100 people.;-
They, entered the building be
fore th&. water, beeama. so, high, and
now.tbey cannot -etcape. The build
ing is on . "sightly raised , ground,
and if no further . rise .takes place
the prisoners may be rescued. They
are now standing on benches, , the
'water covering the, floor several feet
deefVj The . Harris,; elevator also
shelters 50. persons. ', The" water, is
now ,s so high that ' it . is rapidly
spreading out , over the country
north of Topeka.
, ; At midnight earlier estimates of
the number of dead are confirmed
by refuges coming to the city. In
the darkness and rushing water . no
bodies can be recovered, and the
dead will not be counted,, until the
flood abates.' , .All energies are con
centrated on rescue and relief,," and
it is impossible at this time to even
attempt to. make . up a li t ' of the
missing. , ;; .
; . At 2 o'clock this (Sunday) morn
ing rain naa. been,, tallen ; tor , two
hour?1, and this has a tendency to
check the fires in the, dwellings, ;
Word troni Council , Urove. savs
the outlook there is appalling. On
a smaller seal?, the' situation there
is much similar to that in Topeka.
Nine or more people have ..been
burned to death in a fire started by
lime. ; Reports received from ; there
late tod ay, say there is small pros-,
pect bf the water falling for another
24 hpurs. : V " . . ' ;
.; The fiock Island railroad has re
ceived a report that the water has
fallen . .. at" ,'. Manhattan, . . Offsetting
this . comes ... a report that .a
water spout has , started a foot
rise down the Blue river., , Flood
conditions are getting, worse at
Lawrence. Over 500 people in the
northern part of -town . are home-
J less.:r? The large flourillibelopg
ting toepresentative T.' D. Bower-
eox was destroyed at a loss off 150,
000, Several miles of railroad track
are washed out. .
.:: A big rise in the SmlVy Hill riv
er last.bight caused. many more to
leave tneir .homes," and hundreds
are now. encamped on the hills east
of townV : . Hill City has been on an
island inoe the first of . the week.
No .trains have been ..running there
this week. The town is small, and
the stock of " provisions is getting
very, low. V, The people are suffering
D9s Moines, la., May 30. Four
feet of water, was. coursing . thrqugh
a large section .of Bast Pes Moines
business district at daylight this
morning," due to a rise of ' the river
of one foot over .all X past .records,
and the carrying away of a section
of the levee .and dam at Center
street. ' Thirty-five ". thousand . peo
pla in 7East pes Moines, 5,000. in
Pea" Moines,' and 4,000 in .North
Pes Moines are practically cut off
from communication with the main
section of the' city." Absolutely
no attempt is being made to trans
act business. ' The : street railway
company does' not expect to be able
to start cars for a week. Six-thous
and persons are homeless, 30 ; per
cen t, of whom are practically wit h
out shelter, and have been i unfed
for 24 hours, during which time
they, have been exposed to the .in
clement weather. Women and
children shivered all night long in
ram-soaked, garments, unable to
find a dry place to lie down. ' Box
cars were placed within reach of
the refugees in which they, could
find shelter from the rain,. .;JIneP7,
timable, suffering prevails. . This
morning the Pes Moines river ; is
two miles wide. The damage can
not be computed because of the fact
that close to 2000 .buildings are
subrrerged and it cannot be told
whether they will be carried away.
Of the seven bridges in the city on
ly one is open for traffi -i.To get to
the Northwestern hotel this morn
ing at 9 o'clock it was cecessary to
use a boat. ,
"I have been troubled for some
time with indigestion and sour
stomach," says Mrs Sarah W. Cur
tis, of Lee Mass, "and have , been
takirjg Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets which have helped
me very much so that how I can
eat many things that before I could
not." -K you have any trouble with
your stomach why not take these
tablets and get well.. For sale by
Allen & Woodward.
SPOKE NO WORD.
WHILE FLAMiflS LIOKED AWAY
HER SKIN AND BURNED
1XESH FROM .BONES.
Stood in Center of Room With
Hands Uplifted, . a ' Veritable ',
Pillar, of : FireTerrible .
Act of Insane Woman
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Other. t News.( r
Sdlem, . May 30. With flames
which she had started with suicid
al intent, burning . her. body to a
crisp, Mrs. S. P. Towle, a patient at
the state insane asylum, failed ' to
give tongue to the awful agony she
must have felt, and calmly permit
ted the fire to do its work of death.
l This; phasa of . a tragedy (enacted
at the asylum this morning reminds
one of the early Christian martyrs,
who endured the mast terrible pain
without a murmur.: i '.
' Mrs. Towle, a woman of 41 years,
was an inmate of what is known as
the restraint ward. This morning,
despite the precautions of the at
tendants, she managed in some way
to procure some matches,.: This
find evidently aroused to full ac
tivity the suicidal mania charac
teristic of the woman's complaint,
and with extraordinary cunning
she set about preparing to end her
life.'. ...:'.:
Adjoining the ward
where .Mm.
was a linen
one goes in
the insane
Towle was confined
room. Ordinarily no
to this apartment and
woman evidently calculated on be
ing unobserved lor a sumcient
length pf time to accomplish her
purpose oj suicide. : , -
Carefully closing the door, she
ignited the matches and deliberate!
iy set are to ner clothing, beginning
at the hem of the skirt, and start
ed a blaze at several other parts of
ber drees. Within a few seconds
the flames were leaping about her,
lickinr tbe skin from her body and
scorching the flesh to the bone,
; But from 'the room where this
scene was enacted tnere came no
cry of pain . or of terror." The
crazed woman bore the agony with
the silence of a stoic. '
One of the attendants came into
the' ward; She-was at once sur
rounded, by a frightened mob of
patients. '
"Smoke! Smoke! Fire! Fire!"
they yelled while eome, seizsd
with greater panic ' clambered for
egress at the iron bars over the.win
dow. J."'.-! ;
, ,The attendants quickly glanced
around and saw smoke issuing from
the linen room. It was but' the
work of a moment to open the,doorr
L berein a perfect mass ot names com
pletely hiding her from sight, they
found Mrs. lowle. She was stand
ing upright in the center of the
room, her bands raised high-! above
her head, a veritable pilla,r of fire.
At great risk to themselves, the at
tendants grasped the tburninr wo
man, and with blankets smothered
the fllames, which by thiB time had
burned almpst a ll the clothing from
the ' unfortunate ; woman's body,
While the.attendants were working
to i save ner ine, ana wniie tne Das
J t-!l- it. 1
tuy ' summoned physicians were
working over her, not a sound es
caped the lips of the woman, save
that of labored breathing.
Surgical skill was of no avail.
The woman bad inhaled the flames
and she died a few minutes after
the doctors reached her side. .
.In the meantime a hard fight
was being made to avert a disas
trous fire that threatened the entire
institution. The mass of clothing
in the linen room had taken fire
and was burning fiercely, and so
soon as the ' flames, surrounding
Mrs. Towle had been extinguished,
the attendants turned their atten
tion to saving the asylum from de
struction. This they did by a nar
row margin, succeeding in putting
out the fire only after hard work.
Supt. Galbraith reported the facts
of the suicide to the coroner1 and an
inquest over Mrs. Towle " will be
held this afternoon. The dead wo
man was committed to the asylum
from Marion county."
New York, May 29. Marguerite
Boyenval, of Thelles, near San
Juan, who had been in cataleptic
condition since May, 1883, has
awakened, cables the Herald's cor
respondent.' Fori some time past
she has suffered from phthisis, and
it is believed that the effect of thiB
malady an her system conduced to
her awakening,, . 8he moved her.
hand Saturday : for . the . firet jdme
and'groaned , slightly,. , and ' subset
quently "replied to questions . by
"YesTand Vno,T She : was, how
ever in a state of . great weakneaa ,
and gradually'aank, dying the !day ;
after awakenings ' .
: .Marguerite Bayenval's 'letbergjr
was caused by fright.. She had bad'
a child, 'which died shortly after its:
birth under ' circumstances which'
Iff! tn thA nnnnino nf h inTraofo
tion.. One day in May, 1883, wbils
Marguerite was ironing, a neighbor""
said to .her:,' '"The gendarmes are :
coming to arrest you." i Marguer- '
itte had a stroke of fits,- and gradu
ally fell into, her long slumber.-'
In 1896 the girl was described as
being white as a statue and corpse-,
like as a mummy.' Her body wast
ed away almost to a skeleton, and-'
her bone seemed to be covered with -parchment
instead of iskin. The
body was rigid and only the pulse
beats showed that she was alive..
She was sustained by washing her ;
body' with' milk every day and
pouring a few drops of milk or -spirits
into the ' sleeper's mouth '
through a reed. ,' ' r"
i Many prominent physicians vis
ited the patient during :her ' 20
years' sleep. ' " ' "
' Baker City, Or., May 3o: The
electric power plant of , ther-Bakerv
City Electric Light & Gas Co. at ;
SouthBaker was deetroyed by fire v
this afternoon about 4:3o. .. The-'
wind was blowing almost a gale at
the time, and for a while the . town
of South Baker and the large: mill .
and lumber yards of the Oregoa'
Lumber Company, with r severaL;
million feet of lumber, were in im t
minent danger of destruction. The
firemen made i heroic fight, and
succeeded in confining the flames ;
to the power buildings,
The power plant was totally de--i. s
streyed; .entailing a'fbss of $25,ooo. ,
The insurance is only llo.ooo. The ,
light company canceled a policy of
$25oo yesterday. because of the
high, premium charged : for . insur
ance. . It is thought the fire caught
in the shavings from the big plan- .
ing mill near. by, which, are used
to furnish fuel far the electric light
boilers. .. . . ,.v
.. Tne company will rebuild just aa, .
soon as hew machinery can be pro
cured from the East, but at best it
1 1 uA a Pa.a .ua
plant will be completed. i
The gas plant owned by the com
pany is being fitted up tonight tot '
supply the city with .lights. . Coal
oil and .candles are at a, premium, ;
il : : e .1, ?
depend on electr'city for; light.. , .
Portland, May 30, George Smith
the wife-murderer, may now count ,
the remaining. number .of days. of;,
his existence on 'the fingers of one
hand;,,, Next 'Friday morning,' at
an hour when most people are ' in.
bed, he will forfeit his life in ' ex
piation ol bis crime, on the gallows,,
and with ' his . passing away will .
pass the lastj legal ( execution in
Portland.!. .'. ., ' .
; 'Preparations for the hanging wilt '
begin next Monday, There is little '
to do by way of this, other than to
issue. the usual invitations to wit
ness .the grewsome affair.' The.
same scaffold and ' high enclosure
used at j the execution of Lester
Belding will be made to serve the
same purpose in smith's ' case.
This is virtually in a case of readi-
ness at the present time.
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