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—s F i y f * e- «RW * •VEEKLY EDITION WEEKLY EDITION, 104 $1.50 Copies of the SEMI-WEEKLY EAST OREGONIAN will be sent you in one year for only 12.00 It prints the news of the world and will interest you. Try it Cannot be better spent than by sub scribing tor the WEEKLY OREGONIAN Three Looters Were Unceremoniously Shot. Five Milo* of Railroad and Track Were Completely Washed Away— Relief a year. EAST Jost think, $1.50 gives yon all the news tor a year l>orts from Heppner regarding the number and names of dead that a great deal of unnecessary worry has been caused. The Portland papers still publish the name of T W. Ayres. Sr., among the dead, which is Incor rect. T W. Ayres. Sr., father of T. W. Ayres, of this city, is alive and well, but J. L. Ayres, a cousin of T W. Ayres of this city, was lost. The East Oregonian will publish another list of dead tomorrow, if possible, taken front th«» records at Heppner Air is Heavy With Sickening Odors—A Special States That for SITUATION DESPERATE YET AND MONEY NEEDED. Kansas City and Two Suburbs Are in Bad Shapi I—Water Supply of Lat ter Cut Off and Relief Fund Ex hausted. Two Hundred and Fourteen Bodies Recovered—Many Are Missing and Dehris Yet Covers Many Dead. mate clay, they are placed on the slats across the tubs With sheep shears the women cut away all cloth ing. When they have been washed they are put in the boxes and a sheet laid over them to await Identification Some of the sights I saw with tbe dead are indescribable. Some of the meetings of sons or other relatives who had traveled as fast as horse flesh can go to come to the comtoil of those who have been spared are too pitiful to tell ton sacred to de scribe. Here is a woman bowed with years and grief Her husbaud and children have sunk beneath the rushing seeth ing tide of destruction A son or a daughter has hastened from some ■ elghlxiring city to comlort her How can she be comforted? At such a ilm<- there is no human aid One elands I’untli before such heartbreak mg grief When th«- friends are let fn to ¡den tify the deed one sounds the depths of lium.in sorrow One father who had seen hi* wife and two of his <-nildren lying cold and inanimate, was hoping against hope that hi* only tt maining little one might have been spared A tnessag«- «ante for him to go up to the hall When he looked on the anguished face of his little 1 aby. kind natuie mercifully veiled his sight He tainted and wa» taker! Itom the hall. 1 caught a few hour* sleep at the home of Will Irwin Next morning at 4 o’clock I »a* astii I spent the text tew hour* in helping the search ers lor the dead. Here a baby's Land < an be seen in the flotsam and j< t»am >11 by tbe receding waters. Carefully the little form Is removed and taken to the receiving hall. I stood talking with one of the marshals who was describing the appearance of the advancing wall of waters with timbers and cattle being now sub merged and now thrown to the sur face, when one of the searchers mo tioned to him. We went over to the silent group, They Lad torn away the wr« kage and exposed the form of an elderly man His face wa* crusted From h.s vest pocket bung a gold watch. His hand* were ex leaded, grasping fur the help that did not tome Articles of value are scattered everywhere On Chase street l ta» a line of silverware extending to the edge of the stream, probably the wreck of some sideboard. FLYER WRECKED Open Switch Causes Serious Mishap in Pocatello Yards. Butte, Mont., June 16.—A »p«w-»ai to tne miner from Pocatello, Idaho, says that the most disastrous passenger wreck in tbe history of the Oregou Short Lin«- in recent years orcurrtnl within the city limit» of Pocatello at 11:3«» o'clock Monday, »ben No. 2. the i-a»tbounil last mail, struck a mi» placed switch at the went end of tht yards just x» she »as pulling into town, and went Into the ditch A» a result Fireman Henry Bowers is iie»«i and Engineer Evan Williams, aud Mail Clerk Ben A. Campbell are seriously iujured. but there were no casualitl«-» of any kitol among the ¡»saeuger* Tl«« a> < idem oc> urre<1 at the second »«¡ixh a« toe west end. coming into prx-atelto the engine No HO7, Imme diately left the rail, but continued on the general course of main Itae, while the derailing ot the engine further thre»- the »witch so that the train took tbe siding After running a train l«-ngth from the point of the switch the engine turned over on her side, the mail car and baggage car shot off in opposite directions aud the composite car went off at another tangent, the sleeper, diner and chair cars remained on the grade of the siding. From a private meaage it is learn ed that both maii clerks »ere injured Ben A. Campbell has a severe scalp wound anti is badly shaken up. Ar thur J. Stimpson Is incapacitated from duty Both are i es dents of tbl* city Try It CLDUOBURST nun VINSON Birch Creek Was Flooded for Its Entire Length Monday Evening. PENDLETON PEOPLE TURNED Kansas Lily. Mo.. June 17.—Four , Topography of the Country Hat BACK FROM HEPPNER ROAD. thousand families, aggregating not Trees Uprooted or Twisted Off. Huge Boulders Carried Long D>*tan- Many Destitute Women and Children Left Utterly Alone in the World. fewer than 20 000 persona, are home less in this city and subsisting on ces—Relief From Different Points in Umatilla County. charity. There is left $611000 of the Tremendow* Fall of Water and of relief fund, which Mayor Gilbert de Huge Hailstones—Bridge at Lee’a ♦ clares is one-fourth enough to allevi Heppner, June 18.—A thousand volunteers are working in the town * ate present miseries and the distress 9 Crossing is Gone and Thousands of and in the drifts along Willow creek, seeking for dead Many bodies » that is in sight. 9 OVER 200 BODIES FOUND Acre* of Alfalfa Destroyed. ♦ ♦ ♦ are still unburied: others are being discovered constantly. Scores of ** in Two Kansas Suburbs. ♦ women and orphans are destitute The roll of dead will be incom Heppner. June 17. — Two hundred and fourteen bodies have been * 9 In Armourdale, a city of S.0<»0 peo- * Mr. and Mrs. L. E Tberkeisen of recovered. For 12 miles down W illow creek are pile* of debris, all ♦ plete for several days, and perhaps will never be fully known. There ♦ only four streets arc passable the piano house, who started for ♦ is an urgent appeal for funds. The flood left farming implements an i ♦ pie. on supposed to contain bodies. The principal efforts are centered ♦ household furniture hanging in tops of trees 15 to 20 feet high. Drifts ♦ hundreds of inhabitable houses still Heppner yt»sterday. were forced to clearing the town, but small parties are working along the creek and ♦ and debris extend over a stretch.of 20 miles. Bodies are found in ♦ blocking some of tbe main thorough « fares. The strength, time and Anan discovering bodies every little while return last night by a heavy thunder ♦ various portions, but there is no systematic work yet outside the » 4 da! resources of most of the volun storm that caught them in the vicin * town. Two bodies were found 15 miles below Heppner. ♦ teer laborers an- exhausted and the ♦ ity of Viusou about 6 o'clock in the » Heppner. June 17—I Lave wired re led. Whether bis people were among ♦ extremity that invests the entire com « afternoon. The storm which broke port ot Heppner disaster from lune, the number 1 did not learn. munity is very great. Mayor Thomas G. Hailey left this the repair of the track. Four miles over Pendleton last evening eras the First Sight of Desolation. In Argentine, on the opposite of th«« however a tew personal observations morning for Heppner, having in his were sent from this city and one mile Kaw. there Is no water supply, th«» and impressions may be ot interest. one that «aught the travelers and Driving to the edge of Willow creek care $1.57« for the relief of the storm from Umatilla. wells being foul«»d and the water Our special left the P«-nu<eton depot »e caught our first glimpse of tbe for< ed them to return H. Connell, division roadmaster at works entirely out of commission at 11:30 a. m Monday, At 12:3« we desolation sufferers at that city. WOMAN DIED AT 104 YEARS. that had been wrought by He had besides the $500 voted by Umatilla, was in the city today and They were damaged almost beyond arrived at Echo The teams tele- the devouring waters Severe Hail Storm. the council at the special m etinz yes says the track »'ashed out was the repair. Argentine has 5.00» inhabi graphed for in advance were ready Negress at Charity Home Toid of Old WLet. they had reached Lee s cross Where on my previous visit to terday. $400 sent by the Od 1 Fellow«- best piece of track on the Heppner tants. The relief fund especially in and an immediate start »a, made ing on Birch creek, they were over Timet on Long Island. Those in tbe party were William heppner I had noticed block after lodge. $100 sent by the Redmen. $2«' branch as it was laid with steel rails tended for this city Is exhausted Taken by the storm aud forced to block of beautiful and substantial res Matlock. H L. Swaggart. John Endi sent by the Painters' Union and ?25o last year and had been thoroughly Walla Walla. June 17.—The oldest stop. The thunder and lightning was by well-kept cott. Dr W G. Cole. E. S Podgett. idence* surrounded subscribed by the German Vercin repaire«! and overhauled this season. nmate of the Colored Home and Hos severe and a hail storm swept over lawns, and shade trees, there was J A. Marston. Fred t. rawford. Dan Eintracht Society. The Masons have pital. at One Hundred and Forty-first the country such as has never been A Scene of Desolation. Bo» man. John Stevenson, .M A. Ra now to be seeu a bare expanse swept street and Southern boulevard, died seen here before Tbe hail stone» also authorized him to draw upon the Charles A. Carter has returned i der. E P. Dodd. Mr Long, the writer, clean of every semblance of a house last Friday at the age of 104 years were at least an inch in diameter and lodge here for $300 if it is needed at Here and there a twisted tree trunk aud several others Her name was Eliza Bates, but all came with such force that great welts the place, or to contract for the equiv from Heppner, for »-hich place he left | or a line of broken tree* showed who knew her called her "Mammy were raised wherever they struck the alent of that sum in any manner that on .Monday last. He was caught in I Across the Desert. where tbe street had been the storm on Birch creek and forc«»d may be necessary. Bates " Until the end she had per body. The horse* driven by the par The heat shimmering on the drift Houses on their sides uptum«-d to return to this city that night, bu« Mr. Hailey will turn the amount fect health and her faculties were ties refused to face the storm and ing sands, the sparse sagebrush, the made another start in the early morn house*, houses with their backs over to the relief committee on the unimpaired. Only an hour before her turned their backs to the wind while jack rabbit* and horned toad* dart ; broken, lodged again st a tree, houses death she threaded a cambric needie the driver* took refuge under the rigs spot and will tender any help that the ing on tbe next day. He describes I ing to shelter behind clumps of sage in all sorts of grotesque positions, She *a* a maker of patch work, and After the worst of the rain and hall city of Pendleton may be able to ren the conditions there as appalling and brush, the monotonous sameue«» of were to be seen singly and tn group* says that no words can convey the tr.any of the quilts her industrious had passed Mr. aud Mrs Therkeisen der the hills describes the country be MUCH SPACE SWEPT BARE We drove to where the bridge had He will act in coni’i’iction will« a»fulness of the scene. finger* put together took prizes at started back to the city and were An hour been and a man pointed to where we "The earth has all been washed different embroidery shows and forced to swim their horses in sev Judge G. A. Hartman and W. F. Mat CLEAR TO THE BEDROCK. tween Echo and Heppner, the out I rum Echo we encountered away from the streets of the town could ford the creek. We drove up to Will Burn Up Wreckage. church fairs lock who are there engaged in the eral place* to get home. the clear to tbe bedrock in some place*, first evidence of the severity of where the roof of th«' Telephone sta Workers are hurry mg in from near work of relieving the suffering and Dry gullie* and runways that had storm «>t the preceding night. ble lay The proprietor welcomed u*. and the large trees grown along the by point» Teams and men are tear will do all that he can both as a pri FELL OFF FOOT LOG. Railroad Iron Twisted Like Wire and held no water for years, were raging "Feed them all the loose hay you Ing the wreckage apart and piling it. vate individual and as the mayor of streets tor shade have been washed First Evidence of Storm. Carried Long Distances — Judge torrents and the country all around want to boys. It wont coot you a the city of Pendleton to help relieve out by the roots and torn and twist The land had been cut and gullied cent. *0 help yourselv»; We are not tor burning. Unless one ha* seen it. Little Boy Lest Hi* Footing and Was was flooded. Hartman Believes the Number of ed into all kinds of shapes. little idea can be formed of the con tbe awful conditions there Droened in Rock Creek. by the water, sagebrush being up selling things In Heppner now "One would have no idea of the Flood From Pilot R ock to Echo. Dead Will Reach Three Hundred. gestion of travel and of communies rooted and winrow* of sand formed. Freewater Votes $300. force of the storm unless they had "Last night I waded out from that tlon. Baker City. June 16—Joe. the 4* The storm seemed to extend from Shallow pools stood in the depres stable in water higher than my waist Freewater. June 18.—The city coun been there and had a chance to see Judge G. A Hartman returned from ■ 1 filed an order ter the use of the year-old sun of Joseph Southwick, ar Pilot Rock to Echo and to hare its cil met in special session last night for themselves the ruin that has been Heppner at noon today, and was se»-u sions. and the road was hub deep with carrying my little grandson on my long distance 'phone at Ione at 9 employe of the Chase Mills, was cross center tn the vicinity of V arson. water in places. W. 11 lam Matlock, back. You see how it is boy*. If it and voted $30« from tne general fund wrought. o’clock a. m. and at 3 o'clock I gave ing tbe creek on afoot log. when the What it must have been ia the cen “The house of G. W. Phelps was down town this afternoon and asxed who has traveled the Heppner-Echo hadn't been tor that pile of drift that up the attempt. During that time the bark loosened by the reins, slipped ter ot the disturbance can be judged for the relief of Heppner The subscription started by the moved about 25 feet back from the to tell of the scenes at the seat of ■ road times innumerable since tbe turned the current and broke its force phone had been continuously busy. under his feet and be was précipitât by the fact that Mr. Therkelsen had Freewater Times yesterday amounts foundations and the porch was swept the storm. The judge said that be i early six ties, said that never before 1 never would have gotten out. That When I came out by team I brought ed into the stream The child was on gone but a little »-ay when the roads his way to see his father. to $108. making a total of 1408 and away and not a single splinter of it was unable to tell any connected ac- ! had he seeu the water standing tn tig roof there is George Conser's several score telegram* were as dry as could be and ail tbe such quantities on the flat. Louse George and his wife ha<l s The accident occurred in the even t rave hrs coming from the direction a party of 10 laborers, sent to the has tx»en found. Heppner has had an overwhelming count of tbe disaster from the fact : Usually the thirsty alkali toil eagei- "The family was in the house at the barrow escape Doc' McSword and disaster. It will take years for her to ing and the body was found today of Pendleton had s«-n no ram to flood sufferers. There are only about 400 residents in Freewater, and the time of tbe flood and were saved, un that he had attempted to work while ! ly drink* up the water So heavy had Johnny Ayer* were with them, but recover from such a staggering blow. cluse by the spot where the lad fell ijesi of. subscription paper is only fairly the other hand, the house, of the Red he was there and bad only picked up | | been the waterfall that the hillside* they were both drowned " Unless one has witnessed something into the creek. Mr Therkelsen will leave agam field family was swept away and not a the few things as they had come to | ' were cut with ravine* where the started yet. similar, it is difficult to form any this morning for Heppner, where he Mam Street a Chao*. vestige of the structure was ever him as he was not busy at his work. i water had eaten its way to tbe low For the Murder of Marcum. ha* a large number of pianos in the Not the First Washout. Skirting piles ot drift and making conception of the devastation that has lands. Two or three hours out from found. The body of Mrs. Redfield was Jackson. June 16—Jett, on the district destroyed by tbe flood The town had lost 110 of its dwel Echo our five rig* pulled out of tbe ¿••tours through tbe mud to avoid the been wrought to life and property "This was not the first washout iound but the daughter is still miss FRED I j OCKIJEY. JR stand this morning in his own d* The storm washed away the bridge that Heppner has experienced." said ing and no trace of her can be dis- ling houses out of the center of the road to make way for a single buggy- wreckage we made our way to the fen»e. put on a bold front, h* said at Lee's cro«sing and flooded the en town, and the ground was swept as drawn by a splendid span of blacks main street Here we found confusion Mr. Morrow to the Oregon Daily Jour covered. Sumpter Rehef Fund. he never entered the door of the tire district lying down the canyon bare as Main street, and clear down nal. "The city was built at a poidt "The only thing belonging to the to the bedrock. One had no idea of coming on tbe dead run Their glis worse confounded court house until after the »hooting There are two gulch«-* leading from citi Sumpter. Or . Jun* IT. — The Wooden buildings that had floated where several canyons come together family that has been found is a little the force ot tbe flood, tor there was tening. sweat stained flanks were took place and went there from curi the starting place of the storm, and flecked with foam. A* long as they down the street had lodged and been and empty into the narrow Willow child's book of fairy tales given to «Concluded on eax- thru > osity only down these the water rushed On« creek valley. A cloudburst on any ot the daughter when she was a little debris of all kinds scattered all over I were in sight they kept up their left in tbe middle ot tbe street or of the runwsys is a deep gulch lead the surrounding hills could not help girl. In it is the inscription written the face of the land. Trees and rail killing pace. We wondered what leaning against the buildings which ing straight along, and the other is a road iron and every imaginable thing message of life or death wa* urging nn account ot being built of brick or seriously affecting the town. by the one who made the gift, but it twisted and twined into a mass •>n the stern-faced driver longer route »hich the creek follow» stone, had been able to withstand "Twenty years ago a cloudburst is so worn by the water that It is al were Tbe water struck on the divide, part Tbe flood came from the flood occurred at the head of Hinton creek most illegible. The book was found indescribable. Monday’s Storm. going do«u one way and the rest fol Mud and rlime was over everything and a portion of the town of Heppner tar down the creek in a pile of debris high in the mountains and swept all lowing the longer route loose things in its path into the town A tew milex from Heppner tbe An all pervasive odor ot tbe charnel was washed away. But at that time and is the only thing that remains of Bodies bad been identified from eight ski«»* incimi dark and threatening. Destruction to Crop*. house pervaded the air The smell the town had not built down stream the once happy home. miles up Willow creek, and the flood The lightening flashed fitfully across The water came about half an hour and most of the houses were above "What is needed now is labor and came from farther than that. The the darkened sky and the low rumble of carbolic arid and other preserva SALES POSTPONED UNTIL M. P. CARGILL IS DROWNED tiv«»s gave sickening evidence of the apart to the <-onvergen«-e of the ways, tne point where Hinton cree» empties money. The people have all the sym town had been pretty well cleared of thunder was heard. IN COOMBS CANYON. and was from two to four and five feet »holewale destruction of life that had MIDDLE OF JULY. into the main canyon. This condition pathy that they need, for all the The electrical display increased till come like a bolt from the blue upon ¿«•«•p in some places It swept ov«»r has greatly changed since that time. country is in mourning with them, out. and the workers were at work on the drifts out of the city and in the the lightening flashed blindingly from the once happy and prosperous little the low lands akwg the creek and in Heppner extended down the banks of but their immediate need Is to take Highest B'd Made Was 12 1 » Cents — direction ot Lexington, when he left three or four different points at the city of Heppner Left Pendleton Monday Evening on some place* the alfalfa and other the main creek and a considerable care of the dead and to provide for the city Emergency Does Not Justify a Sac- same time. Then rattle the deluge. portion of the city was below the those left destitute by the storm Horseback—Torrent of Water Car- crops were ruined. A large amount Families Torn Asunder The houses that were left were In The rain seemed to come in sheets Wool Now Stored Was Sneer ritic mouth of Hinton canyon. “The orphans and the broken fam a sad plight, for they were tiwsted and by bucketsful ne* Body Eight Miles—Resident of of the alfalfa had been cut and this Men. who 24 hour* ago had had a In five minutes “On every hand hills from 800 to ilies are the ones that need the first floated off on the water and w-as scat- ed From Yearlings—This Sale No and wrecked and piled high with the Umatilla County for 20 Year». | »if«- and family and a beautiful home. th«- hillside ravines were bank full 1.000 feet in height surround the spot attention and after they have been tered along tbe bottom for a long Criterion to Eastern Oregon Mar- drift. In some places tbe wreckage I may be seen standing among the of muddy water where Heppner nestled. Nowhere made comfortable as they have been «ay» That which was still standing would not be higher than four feet, The body of M P Cargill was found ket. mins dry-eyed from grief Here and Our progress was somewhat slow could human beings nave been gath tne first thing to do is to help was in as bad a fix. tor the rushing and in others it would lie plied up ! there a man winks back the tears i er than it would ordinarily be as oc by George Fourth, a 10-year-old boy. water beat it into the ground and ered in a spot where they were more straighten out the awful tangle in the Baker City. June 17.—The wool at th«- mouth of Coombs canyon, at 9 plastered it with mud so that it can open to danger from floods. Their business of the town and clear away from lu to 15 feet, and in this drift casional detours had to be mail«* to 1 Here a trembling lip tells the story ot safety lay alone in the facts that no the wreck. This will take money and would lie found all conceivable things get around washouts ami places | a grief too deep for words. Before sales here yesterday were a total fiz o'clock this morning. not be harvested Tbe entire extent floods came. When the waters were labor and it is this that the people Dogs, horses, pianos, organs cup where the road had tw-en destroy«! I such an overwhelming visitation on«» zle. of damage is not known for all of Mr. Cargill left Pet«di»tcn cn torse- the the boards and human beings welded to by the storm. ' sees little grief of th«- noisy or dem As a result of tbe deadlock the resl«ie*ts are busy repairing as turned loose their destruction could »'ant at the present time." gether in a mats that could hardly onstrative kind sales were postponed until July 15-16. back Monday ev-aing ar.d in attempt A few miles from Heppner th«» road much as may be possible the damage not help but be fearful When Mr. Carter left the city at One woman, with grief too deep for Buyers ami sellers were both inde ing to cross Coombs < anyon. was to their farms lost all semblant e of a road We were “I believe the city will be rebuilt. 5 o'clock yesterday evening, there be wrenched apart. The judge told the story of the es “ Can you tell me pendent to a remarkable degree tears, said to me in th«- wake of the cloudburst of the There is a demand for a town in just had been 218 bodies taken out and At one place about six miles out of whether they have found my hus- Th«- wool market situation was dis caught and drowned by the cloud the city the water washed a table that section of the country, and it is dentifled. He does not think that t’| cape ot Tom Matlock. After being preceding evening burst which occurred in the bills west .Matlock separated from his wife, Most of my relatives cussed from every standpoint and the band's body? not likely there will ever be a repe list will mount much above that fig out of the back porch of a fanner s Path of the Waterspout. knew that she was killed and at were drowned, It seems hard that 1 emergency was not considered by the of this city Monday night. tition of the terrible flood bouse and swept it a mile down the ure. Here the road followed Hinton He was tempted to save himself, His body was washed eight miles creek. The table was standing on should have to live If 1 could only wool growers to be acute euough to "Heppner was one of the richest creek. Hinton creek and every trib caught in tbe waters and swept down have gone with him. justify a sacrifice. down the canyon and lodged in a ground at least 10 feet above the or Country Is Changed. towns of its population in America, The waves were like utary. swale and gulch had been rag They will hold tor higher prices heap of drift at tbe mouth. City in Darkness. and the property loss must have been dinary ¡eve! of the creek. By this Dan Richmond and John Schmidt with the flood, the ocean, and were ing torrents. Where the road had News of the accident was brought can be judged the size of the storm. enormous. It cannot be estimated for have returned from a trip to the scene the waves of The city is in darkness—a dark until the next sale, and it things are been, huge piles of boulders and rocks all kinds and condi- not satisfactory at that time they crowded with to this city by Charles White ana months. I certainly lost many thous of the Heppner horror and the report Struck 0. R. A N. at Nolin. had been deposited. Rocks weighing ness too deep to be dissipated by the John Forth, who live on Birch creek ands of dollars worth of property, they bring back is one of terror. The tions of drift, Floatlng with him a thousand pounds had been carried feeble gleams of the lamps and tal will still bold. Part of the waterspout which came cattle, »bole houses Secretary J. H. Gwinn, of the state were dogs and Coroner W. G. Cole was immediately but at a time like ihis one never houses are torn and thrown about from the hillsides above and left low candles that are being used In Woolgrowers" Association, was pres notified and an investigation is being down on the Lee's crossing country thinks of the dollars—it is the lives and the whole face of the land is aud parts of bouses wrenched asun down of electric lights. A misstep at in tbe roadway or the alfalfa fields lieu hit the O. R. A N. at Nolin and cov at the sales here yesterday, Two made this evening. which money cannot buy that receive changed. The rails of the O R. A N. der, and here and there a human be below. the street crossing results in going ent ered the track for some distance with ing struggling in the flood. He was or three Boston buyers, four from San The body was badly bruised and attention.” are scattered about and twisted into Some of the alfalfa fields will be into the soft and slimy mud to one’s Francisco, and three from Western bore evidences of the awful velocity a mass of rocks and debris. The wa in all kinds of shapes and left lying in swept down and at last was caught more valuable as rock quarries than ankles. The Palace hotel la crowded points were also on the ground. Orphans Cared For. managed the drift and under it. but >t the torrent that swept the nntertu ter from the flexvded creek* and my way places where no one would have with the homeless. Picking | Others in attendance were: cate man down the entire length of gulckes emptied into the Umatilla at Portland. June 18.—Mayor Williams thought that they could be driven to crawl under the water and the as alfalfa fields now. In places the along as best I could, . 1 made my way Robert Wilson, of the Burlington the canyon. His horse has not yet the mouth of Birch creek, raising the received a telegram from Detroit. Unless one has seen the thing no idea mass of the float and at last reach the fences were entirely washed away, to the morgue. On the street corners .Mich., yesterday evening, asking could be formed of the force of the surface. He was bruised from the while in other places the barbed wire and stack«l along the sidewalk are road; B. T. Sweney, ot the Erie Des hen found and it is not known water of the river several feet. The sudden sweep of tbe water on its way top ot his bead to the soles of his fences had withstood the flood and hastily constructed oblong boxes. A patch; F. H. Stocker, of the Traders w bether it was drowned or not about the two children of A. M. Gunn water and the horror of the scene. feet, and black and blue from the ef mud and silt had been deposited grim reminder of the chief occupa ’ Despatch; William Ellery, represent He was identified by a check book rushed over the low track at Nolin and wife, of Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Reports Not Exaggerated. and completely covered it with rocks, fect of the buffeting that he had re to the top strand of tbe wire. Gunn were drowned and the grand tion at present—the burial of the ing Hallowell aud Donald, Boston; F. found on him mud and driftwood. A force of men A. F. Rugg has returned from ceived. Mark P. Cargill was a nephew of Green, of Carson & Company. Boston; parents of the orphans desire the dead Freaks of the Flood. At noon yesterday about 140 bodies E J. Burke, of H. C. Judd & Root. D. E. Cargill ot this city, and a »as sent to the scene from here, and children sent to Detroit 1c be cared Heppner and tells of the gruesome One curious thing to be seen was At the Morgue. sight to be seen there. He says that had been recovered and more were Hartford. Conn., and Hom Cotter, of brother of Mrs. Alex Hudson, of Me tbe work was pushed with all possible for. Inequality of tbe damage of the In the hail of Robert's stone block Livingston. Kay creek, and of Elmer. Dalbert and speed, but the trains were delayed for The 11-year-old daughter of W. the matter can not be painted in any coming in as the party left the town, tbe flood. Here a man's splendid alfalfa The highest bld made was 12%c W. H. Cargill, of this city, and has •ome time by the accident. Ayres, of Heppner, is a pupil in the blacker colors than it deserves. The .Most of the drift in the town had field was cut in ravines or covered Is the morgue. When I went up I found Mrs. N A. Kelly and Mrs. M. for the clips of Sam Kidder, 50.614 resided in Umatilla county for 20 Portland Academy. Her parents and conditions there are simply indescrib been cleared, and the men ha<F tackl Relief Wagon Turned Back. a deposit of rocks and gravel, M Cresswell busy with the dead pounds, and Lee Bros.. 89.876 jiounds years, eight years of which he spent near relatives have all been taken able and no one can begin to tell tbe ed the miles of unexplored debris with One of the wagons loaded with pro down in the direction of Lexington. while possibly the next field, not Jy- They and the other brave and cour- The figure was not accepted. at Weston. from her by the great torrent of Wil horrors of the scene. visions and supplies for the people a bill down which ing at the foot of ageous women of Heppner have made There are nine miles of drift that has He was 31 years of age and a native at Heppner, which was sent out yes low creek, and now tbe child is abso A sale will be held at Elgin July Shot for Looting. the waters would madly tear would noble response to the call upon 10-11. lutely alone in the world. of Illinois. terday attern«x)n. wa* caught in the A special telegraphic dispatch from not been searched, stretching down have a deposit of one or two tncnea a them, Stretched the length of the Officer Hawley was sent to Hepp a private party at Heppner to the the creek, and front the size of this. Secretary Gwinn, of the Oregon storm on Birch creek and forced to or rich muddy sediment that will be tubs. Across Woolgrowers' Association, in explain ner today to care for the orphan Hast Oregonian today, says that Judge Hartman estimates that there worth hundreds of dollars in enrich hall are porcelain tubs, return this morning. The load was TO EXHIBIT OREGON WO j L. these tubs slats are placed. children and bring those needing as three unknown men were shot there will be 300 dead in the place when all ing the postponement of the sales in taken off and distributed among the ing the field. Much of the standing al As the bodies are recovered they Raker City, said today: sistance to Portland, where they will for looting, this morning, but the have been accounted for. Samples Will Be Exhibited at St merchants who had furnished It. and falfa was either washed out entirely are brought here. Some look calm Boys ’ and Girls ’ This drift is an awful sight, for it be cared for by the '"The wool offered for sale yester they will take the material back If Pendleton people returning from Louis and Portland. or lay prostrate in the mud. and peaceful. Aid Society. day was shorn from yearlings and for there is any great damage done to the Heppner say that there was no loot is one continuous mass of all kinds of Baker City. June 17. — Henry Black Roads Impassable. One little girl was lying in a crude this reason the bidding was not lively, various articles the men behind the ing being done and that the bodies things. In it are wedged horses and Heppner Mail. man. of Heppner, the agent of the St. In many places we got out of the box. the light from a smoky lantern l.ater in the season when the full cattle and houses and furniture and 18.—Postmaster are being gathered up and the prop bridge timbers, railroad iron and ties, hacks and let the driver pick his way falling u|>on the satiny smoothness of clip is displayed, both buyers and Louis, also the I^ewis and Clark ex relief movement will stand for it. Portland, June Bancroft states that, mail is being re- erty closely guarded so there Is no trunks and pianos, trees and fences, over the txiulder-strewn roadway. her bare white shoulders. It lit up sellers will be in a better position to position». is in the city. Mr. Black provided the merchants wish to be ceived for Heppner, Although the opportunity for this sort of detesta bridges and roofs and human bodies, Just this side of Ed Day's house we her clustered ringlets of golden hair base their prices The woo) now of man's specialty is to advertise East reimbursed postmaster was drowned in the flood, ble work. ern Oregon. Wool of the finest qual The temper of the citizens there all tangled together till it some times overtook a young man hurrying for till they looked like fine-spun gold. ’ fered Is by no means a criterion of the ity will be selected from Eastern Or FLOOD IN COMB'S CANYON. the postoffice was not seriously dam takes all the strength of a heavy four- ward on foot to Heppner. He accept Her Ups were partially closed. Her Eastern Oregon clip." would not tolerate a looter long in aged, and an inspector will be sent egon flocks and placed on exhibition ed our offer of a ride toward the expression had nothing of fright or, horse team to pull the mass apart. their midst and the report is probably- from Spokane to take charge. An at St. l.ouis and later forwarded to Report of Extensive Damage Not The bank was to have opened this i ill fated city. His anxiety to reach pain, rather it was one of utter i»eace REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. immense amount of mail was received exaggerated. the Lewis and Clark exposition which Well Confirmed. morning for the payment of "no men. there was painful to witness. A cour and content. J. N. Kernan and Wife Dead. in this city yesterday for Heppner. It <lid not seem possible that she Bank Official Suicides Who Is Not will put Eastern Oregon flockmasters it is reported that there was a All the laborers were being paid $2 ier had started the preceding night Most of the mail consisted of regis The report that J. N. Kernan, O. a day and boarded, and those that and by riding all night and until 10 was dead; rather it seemed that she in the front rank A local wool dealer cloudburst in Comb* canyon last Short in His Accounts. tered letters and money orders. R. & N. agent at Heppner, together were not willing to take wages were i o'clock that morning, had notified slept Death had dealt gently with ' New Yorfl. June 17.—Frank Dean, will collect the sa tu pies. 1 :tgbt which washed a»a> bridges and Friends of sufferers mailed money with his wife, had been saved, is un- cared for There was plenty of food I him of the catastrophe which had her. leaving no signs of stress or vice-president of the Seaboard Na fences along the entire length of the to the afflicted as soon as possible. true. INSULTED HIS WIFE. gi;lcb The school house was washed and clothing and placet lor shelter. overwhelmed the city. The young sorrow on her beautiful and innocent tional Rank, shot and killed himself The mail will be rushed through. Mr. Kernan and wife were caught ___ _ The Main thing was tbe money and I man's people were among those re- young face. “She is one of our uni in the cellar of his home, this morn away down the canyon and entirely de by the flood as they left, the office the men. At the present time there t ported mising. dentifled dead." said Mrs. Kelly. "Her ing. after bidding his family good-bye. Tom Thall Is Badly Beaten and stroyed ami all «M the hay either wash- Eagles Gave $2,000. j face has a vaguely familiar look, yet Insanity is supposed to be the cause Afterwards Pull* Hi* Freight «»d a»ay or destroyed Horse Ridden to Exhaustion. Portland. June 18.—The state lodge building and were carried away. Mr. was a force of <00 men at work, and I ; no one seems to know her Possibly of the deed, as Mr. Dean's accounts Baker City. June 17 - For insulting of Eagles has contributed $2,000 to Hart, the operator, saw them disap there was the nine miles to clear up, “ I rode my horse from Desolation she was at the Heppner hotel, Most are known to be straight. Sheep to California. Heppner relief, the amount to be as pear, as he struggled to higher so that there was room for more. a married woman in a local bulging Creek since 10 o’clock this morning." D. 1. Waltz, a sheep buyer of Chi The water must have been at times he said. "For 60 miles I put him of its guests were lost." sessed to the local lodges in the ground with their two children, who house yesterday. Tom Thall. a cigar were saved. at least 30 feet deep, as ft rushed Farmer Adjudged Insane. state. maker, was nearly bos ten to a pulp cago. California, has purchased 6000 Heart-Rending Scene*. The list of identified dead by the down the creek and the reason »hat through as hard as he could stand Union, Ore . June If.—Sheriff Pen by an irate husband armed with a head of yearling wethers in this vague Piles of rough coffins throw it. He gave out a few mile* bad Five Miles of Rails. city authorities of Heppner, contains i the people did not hear the approach and I couldn't get a horse for love or and distorted shadows in the _ Rloom nlngton has taken to the asylum J. cane Thall was later arrestici and county and will make a shipment to The O. R. & N. has sent five miles the names oi Mr. and Mrs. Kernan. ing flood was on account of the heavy money, so 1 had to come on foot.” 1 Some are occupied and some are not. Myers, an old-time resident of this released on 125 cash bail. Today he morrow provided the required num of new steel rails to the Heppner rain which blotted out all things 30o Incorrect Liat of Dead. As the bodies __ are _______ brought in. _ poor. county, he being adjudged insane by disapi>eared »hen his ease cauie up ber of ears can be obtained. - Baker When »'e got there he found that branch, as a part of the material for City Democrat. There is so much confusion in re- . feet away. for trial. 83 of the dead had already been bur- bruised, batter«!, mud-stained, inant- the county court. Is Coming in Liberally. But Much More Will Be Needed—There Are MET DEATH ALONE