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Never Before"
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TERROR POSSESSES
Valley
in the Known History of the ;Great Missis-
Has Such an AoDaiiine Disaster
Visited the People of That Section.
.t New Orleans There Is Fear That the Fate of
St. Louis May Be Repeated Preparations
Are Being Made for the Worst.
ST. LOUIS, June 10. The entire City of East St. Louis is doomed. Before nightfall
every portion will be under a torrent of mad rushing water. Fifty thousands of men, women
and children wille all but helplesst . Nearly all will be homeless.
Appeals from there this afternoon say that not less than 10,000 lives will be im
periled, The scenes we" too awful WiFwmiiXmrXM'nmXl'W
hopeless people, who are hemmed in without a' chance of escape, are heart-rending.
Men, women and little children are endeavoring to escape to places of safety.
Some of these, terrified people have hardly clothing enough upon them to cover their
nakedness.
District Attorney Dyer Ordered in the name of the United States Government, that the
Wiggins Ferry Company sieze every boat available regardless of ownership and with them,
hasten to the scene of the terrible floods.
...-Persons who.refuse'to work are Instantly shot. - Militiarhen are arriving at the
flooded district andare forming cordons around the devastated districts.: The East Broad-,
way embankment has given way and this disaster cuts off all Means of escape. When the
dike went out 30 people, who were wprkiiig 1o save it, met death by drowning,
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THOUSANDS -
Fast : . - "ftVn:;
Vtm OriMuia wUl probably aoffcr mora from th flood ttwi ft. Xonls.
fo otm th inn and iw.ap koroaa th mtn city.
Whan tha daloffa atrlkaa tha bwxk of . that rivar '
Oarrolltoa
,ST.
(Journal Special Bervlca.)
T AT'TO T - .A LSI
perate but futile atruggla agalnat tha
greatest flood which unfortunate thou
sanda were ever fdrced to' combat. East
Bt Loula la thla afternoon In a' wo
ful , condition. Ten. thousand of. the
homeless are threatened with deatruc
tlon. Whole families are penned up Jn
rarreta and on roofs and 2.000 half
clothed men, women and children who
sought refure In the school and church
buildings are now almost helpless pris
oners.
"The City haa appealed to St. Louis
and signals from across the river say
that tha cries for help are being re
sponded to by every available means at
oommand.
Here no flood haa ever been so great;
no condltlona so terrifying; no outlook
o hopeless.
i
AWFUL CALAMITY-
AWAITS THE PEOPLE
The awlft surging water stands from
three to SO feet deep over all the east
ern half of the clty.- Houses are con-
i,.H. . mA fnlll A
ear tiiivusn iu uiv iivci iu .niiiiui
whirlpool currents. At 9 o'clock It was
cutting Its way under the East Broadway
embankment and threatening, the north
em half of the city. The destruction of
Broadway cuts off all means of escape.
A conservative estimate places the
number, of drowned when the embank
ment gave way at 80. Other estimates
reach 100.
A thousand men were working on the
dikes when the break came last mid
night
Forty feet of the embankment Were
awept away In a minute. Many persons
were "compelled to swim to -points of
safety lower down where women and
children were filling sand bags to place
on the levee.
The "terrible concussion when tha
break came makes all estimates of tha
" Ipsa pf life uncertain. .T1 .bodies of
"JohR "Kolish mnd - three-'Of his htlire
who were drowned last night while try
ing to escape in a skin, were recovered
today. The mother escaped injury.
St
AST SL LOUIS IS
NOW A DOOMED CITY
ST. LOUIS, June 10, p. m. The
entire City of East Bt Louis Is doomed.
Before night It is certain that every
portion 'of the town will be under tha
torrent
Fifty thousand people will be rendered
all but helpless and nearly all will be
homeless. At least 10,000 lives will be
Imperiled. Boats, skiffs and every avail
able floating thing are being rushed
serosa the river.
It Is Just learned that two negroes
were- ahot- and -killed before- the . west
break last night One of the men had
been working several days and de
manded - Immediate pay and threatened
to break the dyke did he not receive It.
Seven .men fired at hira at once. An
other negro on the Illinois Central levee
who refused to work was shot by the
guard and killed.
In marked contrast to these scoun
drels, Theodore Day, another negro,
drovo- hls horse into the raging flood
repeatedly and rescued many people.
While making a further attempt both
horse and the dark -driver were awept
away to destruction.
HUNDREDS FLEEING
FOR THEIR LIVES
EAST ST. LOUIS, June 10. A . 10
o'clock there are four feet fit water over
the entire residence section of East 8t
Louis. Hundreds of families are flee
ing for their lives.
Two hundred and fifty militiamen had
arrived and others are to be sent East
Broadway is . declared unsafe. Militia
men are thrown around the scene, keep
ing the crowds of people from attempt
ing to return along the treacherous em
bankment in order to save their belong
ings. The water is rising rapidly at
this hour.
United States District Attorney Dyer,
In the name of the United States gov
ernment has Just' telephoned the Wig
gins Ferry Company, ordering It to seise
all available yawls and Doats regard
less of their ownership and rush with
them to the atrtcken city.
The river stage la now over IS feet
the Highest ever known In , the history of
the city.
GREAT INDIGNATION
- TREELY EXPRESSED
Tha greatest Indignation Is felt over
the disaster, as the people had ample
warning of .the impending danger, but
being ' ignorant they were lulled Into
false security by a coterie of business
men, who laaued vigorous denials of
the danger, aa they were fearful that
the effect of the warning would have a
deprecatory effect on property values.
They are charged with going even so
far as to assault a St Louis newspaper
man sent to describe the flood, and broke
all cameras of persons taking pictures.
(Journal Special Service.)
SPRINGFIELD. June 10. On' re
quest of the Mayor of East -Bt Louis,
CIRCULATION STILL GROWS.
In . less than six months the circulation of The Jour
nal has more than doubled.-
In the "past 30 days the percentage of Increase has
- been greater than at any other -period of the paper's ex
istence, , - -
"If the present -increase, keeps .up The -Journal - will;
have at . the end; of : six. months, the -.largest - city 'clrcula-.,
v tiori of any newspaper published nPprtlandr; .
Ave companies of militia were ordered
to the scene of the flood by special
train, this noon.
ARM0URDALE APPEALS
- FOR THE HOMELESS
Mayor Williams received this morn
ing an appeal from stricken Armourdale,
Kas., on behalf of the many people ren
dered homelesa by the floods. The
Mayor will receive contributions and
will forward them to the relief commit
tees. The appeal la as follows:
"Armourdale, the south side of Kan
sas City, Kas., has met with an ap
palling disaster. The Kaw River has
overflowed its banks and swept away
the town. Sixteen thousand people are
homeless. They have lost their furnl
ture, clothing and everything. Their
houses have been carried off or totally
wrecked. - .The good cltisena of the town
have been able to care -for tha refugees
temporarily but tha. effort to keep them
here and provide homes for Them. I a
perplexing problem. To do this will
overtax us and we appeal to you for
"Money raised from this source will
be expended for their relief by giving
tnem material to 4uild their own houses.
"inree thousand families must ' be
helped to homes In this way, so that
they will be better able to help them
selves when the great rush of rebuild
ing the city Is going on.
"Contributions should be sent at once
to the Armourdale State Bank of Com
merce, the Kansas State Bank, or the
Home State Bank.
"This movement Is made by the Ar-
asourdale Flood Association for build
ing homes, which has been organized
by th& business and professional men
of the town.
- (Signed "JACOB L. KLEIN,
"Postmaster. President
"J. B. HIPPLE,
"Publisher of the Press, Sec'y."
NEW ORLEANS IS IN ,
-6REATST-SUSPESE:
(Journal Special Service.)
HEW ORLEANS, June 10. So grave
Is th apprehension felt here today con
cerning the approach of the terrible
floods that are wrecking East St. Louis
and towns and hamlets along the river,
that an order has. gone forth warning
people of the impending calamity that
must result when the crest of the
mighty waters sweep down the Missis
sippi onto this city.
Men' will be put to work on the levees
with the object of strengthening them
lit places of weakness. Even at this
time men' of all occupations are hand
ing la their names to the city commit
tee, asking that they be called upon
when the time of .danger comes.
That the occurrence may -riot be re
peated which happened at East St Louis
when certain business men denied that
danger existed, an order has gone out
from the Mayor to arrest any person or
persons who may attempt to persuade
the ignorant people that no danger will
ocCur.
This afternoon tbre , Is no other sub
ject being discussed than that -of the
awful reports of death and destruction
Bt Louis, -and what Is - likely . to
transpire when the mad torrents reach
this .city. ! Already , are there hundreds
and even thousands who have deserted
their homes, in places likely to be
flooded. . ---- x i" .
AIL mllltta companies are being held
Isi ; readiness to do active service, and
the Police Department wlll be increased
by many hundreds of claj 'officers at
moment s notice , j
NOT YET
KNOCKED MAN CLEAR
COMING DEATH
Jack Matthews' Political Com
bine Still is Unable to Name
President of the Port Com
mission Board,
The Supreme Test is Expected
to Come at the Meeting to be
Held at 4,0!clock This After
noon,
A quick brain and a strong, ready arm saved L..E. Juston, the res
taurant man, this morning from being maimed or killed under the
. wheels of an electric oar. Had the unknown -possessor of the -brain
and the arm been a , second slower than he was nothing but .a miracle
could have saved Juston from at least serious Injury.
.... Juston aUenpwd-to board- th-4- inbound r - at- -Woodlawn.-' He
signaled to the motorman and the latter reduced speed according to
custom. Just as he grabbed the Iron bar and started to swing himself
on to the platform the motorman turned 'on the current and the carwas
given a sudden forward Impetus.
Juston had grabbed the rear bar of the forward car. to which was
attached a "trailer." The- sodden--Increase in-speed made- -MiTf;- Jus hi
balance, swinging him off his feet and throwing him around toward '
the rear car. Other passengers tu rned pale and held their breath, ex-,
pecttng to see him fall under the wheels of the rear car. But one among
them, more ready of wit than the rest, did exactly the right thing at
exactly the right second. This man, whom Juston does not know,
leaned out from the platform and Just as Juaton's frantic grip on the
Iron bnr was broken, shot out a strong arm, backing an open hand,
and half shoved, half knocked the falling man clear of the cars.
Much shaken, but otherwise uninjured, Juston found Jnlmself In a
pile of sand several feet from the car track.
New Deals May Be Made Be-
t -ri r' t i i-
Tore inai nme, dux rour
Members Out of Seyen Are
Believed to Oppose Willis,
At the meeting of the Port of Port
land Commission to be held at 4 o'clock
this afternoon the ballot for president
s expected to disclose whether the Jack
Matthews political machine has suffi
cient power to control the future actions
of the board. The result, therefore. Is
being awaited with considerable anxiety
by all those who have the real interests
of the Port of Portland at heart.
The fact thrit 13 ballots were taken
yesterday without election Is not con
sidered by 'tffliil " who Mve aTSTuTIy
watched the Matthews machine's machi
nations as being Indicative of an, actual
deadlock, few having expected that the
full strength of either the political plot
ters or those opposed to them would be
developed at the first session of the
body.
Today a change Is looked for, and It Is
believed that P. L. Willis, the Matthews
candidate for president of the commis
sion, will receive at least three votes,
that number being considered the full
Matthews strength unless new combi
nations can be formed before 4 o'clock
today.
The Opposition
Opposing Mr. Willis for the presi
dency, C. F. Swigert and O. B. Thomas
are considered the two most prominent
candidates, although Archie Pease and
C. F. Adams received votes yesterday.
Pease Is counted a Matthews man and
it is thought the two votes which Willis
received yesterday may this afternoon
be augmented by the one given to -Pease.
For the opposition to the machine,
Thomas yesterday had two votes, 8wl-
gert one and Adams one, and If thlsr to
tal of four can bo concentrated upon
any one candidate ft will few. possible
for the Matthews combination to still
be' prevented from consummating ' the
scheme it labored and strove and Juggled
with the Legislature to put through.
It Is claimed' that, the hitch, in the
plans of the political apparatus 'Came
when, working ,ln hot haste to get In its
finishing strQkesfeefre the exposure of
its designs by The Journal had -put a
(Continued on , SecondPagT .'
FATHER
BEAT
BY SONS
Aged Parent Claims that
Young Men Abused Him Be
1 cause He Refused to Furnish
More Money to Squander! ...
After Dividing With Them the
Small Fortune Left By Their
Mother They Make Still Fur
ther Demands,
Expended Their Portion in
Riotous Living in North
End Threaten to Kill Unless
Wishes Are Granted,
REGULARS
President Roosevelt Instructs
the War Department to Or
der Troops to the Scene of the
CHARGE
FRAUDS
Committee of Bankers Trying
to Get at the Bottom of Un
usual Condition of 'Things
Books Tangled,..
Big Grain Failure Now Assumes i
the Aspect of "Gigantic Frauds f
is the Open Assertion Now!
Made. -.- '' 7 r
One Member of le Firm "Said
to Have Run Away and Others j
to Be in Hiding False En-f
tries Charged, ' ;
Three Thousand Men Are
Heavily Armed and as They
Are Mostly Foreigners 4he
Militia is Inadequate
With tears ia his eyes, and -frightened
because of the threats of his
sons, George Kllduff, a gray-haired
patriarch, came into the Municipal
Court today and begged , that warrants
be issued immediately for the arrest of
his two boys, lawrence and ueorge.
"They will kill me and their sisters
unless they are arrested.": sobbed the
aged father, "for they declare that
they will do so unless I board -and
lodge them, and turn over to them all
my money, which was left me by my
wife when she. died." v
Warrants were issued and. placed In
the hands of officers for, 'service. The
arrest of, the brothers ia expected to
tak place this afternoon, w ' ...X
The Story related by the aged' father
(Continued on Second Page.) . ..
The Department of the- Colo
rado Will Rush the Soldiers
Forward in Command of Dis
creet Officer.
Journal Special Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 10. Th Acting
Governor of Arizona today wired Presi
dent Roosevelt that 3,000 men, mostly
foreigners, were on strike at Morencl.
Aria'., and that they were fully armed
and a riot was impending. - He says the
militia has been ordered out, but the
forceps small and Is composed of un
disciplined men. The irombef is In
adequate. .'; .- -
There Is no possibility of restoring
order except by the presents of regulars.
He asks to have troops Ordered - from
Fort Grant Immediately.1"
t The War Jpartment af "one wired
tne Department ef the Colorado to5 have
troops rushed' forward under the . com
mand of a-.dfscreefofffcer with Instruc
tions to avoid Violence If possible. , l
(Journal Special Service.)
9AN FRANCISCO, June 10. If state
ments of relatives are true, Jacob Ep
pinger fled front this city the day of tha
failure of his grain houae, and other
members of the firm are in hiding. AU
reporters tire, abaolutely denied lnforma
tlon at the horifes of the bankrupts.
Talk of legal proceedings is loud and
the charo-e of fraud is openly made for
large amounts of grain were not stored
In -warehouses upon which receipt were -
IssVM afid"Ttfarw Jfeeure. --
District Attorney Bylngton says It 1
the duty of the creditors to come for
ward and disclose any violation-of law, -and
if they won't do it he will see what
can be done to bring the matter before
the courts.
Peck Epplnger has already gone
through two fortunes and says his .
mother told him Saturday that she had
laid something away for a rainy day
to keep the wolf from the door.
A committee of bankers is trying to
get at the bottom of tha condition of
things. The books are hopelessly tan
gled as Ache, the attorney, refused ex
amination for fear report of th country
warehouses will show that no grain: W
in them. It will b several days befor :
the actual amount of th liabilities la)
known. '""
LIBAN .VICTIMS BURIED .
(Journal Special Benfte)
MARSEILLES,. Juno 10. A , publl
funeral it It of the victims ef th ,
steamer Liban disaster was held today, j
All flags ar at half-mast and thousands !
walked bareheaded In th oorteg. -
married m London;' .
(Journal Special Service.)
;.-liONDOK. Jun 10,-Pes timer WsttJi-j
of ShamrocftTTam Was marr!d to y.t
IiAvebond' this morning. ' fir ! i
Ltpton and Lord luoravo.i : i- '
it th ceremony, -.r '
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