1 1 ( r I ' 1 jkjSm.- where rolls ; . ?iry . .'.tup nvvr,nrj n u I 7- -T-T- T-, r ,-T-a 1- h Li , ' ,',:, .", ': ''. ! ' ,. ,',", .- ; ,;' w r a k - A . x . O'clock " 1 .VOL. II. JsO. ,85: ,-:''ff;,',.;.J: j' ' r- V ' PRICE FHTB ICEHTS" . J , V mLuSfGmBmmmmmmM;EPwm: msmwER ,. , . . . , . , - t f. ' ' ' - . - ' . I , . ' r -. - - i -., , i . . .. . s .(...-. -. ',v- I.J, - i' - ...'-- ' ' ...... . K vv, ; .rA'AiiJT ' ' ii . . 1 , , . ' I , ...(.. 1 .-.-.!... !- - . . , . . ' l' 4 -1 . r . ... '; ? ... i .... - ., V. ! "is, v , -' ' "V ' ' " .... V J. h t.. :.: itth&Pictufe-toyhefiett1 It was struck by the flood:, that to the right; shows t tie, pathway cut by' the water through the' town. ,- "t .I. i i . i . i rumble: HEARD 'THE V:: WAVE 1 A Tooher Was In ttye Palace Hoi el. When the warning sounas 01 tne doming uei , uge Reachea tils cars. KvHowf hundreds iwehUdoivn tolmoJiiktant JealK M h I j e r d f m if i o n ; d q 1 1 ars "vy o rt h of p ro rty waV I bei n con - fyerted.into .tangled worth lessness is related by N. L, Hooker. .r , . . . ' , - i r i . .i i ii . T i i " Jhe first survivor; oT the, Heppner; cloudburst 'horror to "arrive l . The awful scenes of death,-destruction. and despair Jef pictured in the gathering darkness;ds;the flood receded and 4he shades of night came on; Jthe prodigious .though almos : useless efforts of the jiving tQ save those doomed to die; the 'gathering of, the scores of corpses and": : their burial in the .feeble light okf early .dawn, and'the rigoVous rneasures adopted i .to save' the 'living and protect the dead frofn. desecration are fell indelibly impressed uporr.thQ 'memory of : this man- who1 -The canwa of awful lealism photographed with: accur, racy the.-teatujs and inciLents.oT the Heppner flood; upon his rnind, and N.;L Tooher, who arrived InTortland yesterday,' 'says . that whenV heV shuts' his'eyes and tries to'sleep ahor- riDie. panorav in wnicn numan lorms are reveaiea, iignung v .-.ft -drowned 'and lifeless,4 bdme'upon'the cresfof a'mtghtylvave, ar,e Inextricably tangled with broken houses, uprooted trees- t I i I i i I'll 'T I i. i lil i ana; sucks ana siones, pomes unDiaae.fi xo nissignuess visiont 4 "it win hsunt me to the. last day. of he Faya. hear 'the. Hcreamn "6ven now .1 can .of . those doomed Mopl. cryinff for aid that couji not be (Wen. VI do jiot believe ; the suffering t tbe ylcUns: could have been greater han tthat of ' those 'compelled to stand anon' the and watch .the worK. of leatho unchecked. The worst fear fare of it all was that nothing could be Jone." t i'Mr. Tookeiv the erntloy-f Fairbanks,"' Morris, A Co, of this city, was' a guest' at the Palace Hotel' In' Heppner when the. great flood came.. , The. .walla of. this br"ckstrue ture shielded and saved fully 200. per son,'. ..Together -with. L. , P.. Bradbury, D. D, Ball and J. J.. Kelly, Mr.- Topker worked- all Sunday night m the relfort first to save 'life and then, .to -.recover the bodies "of the dead.. Worn .out and unablg tp.,do:more;these.mcn Jet Hepp a traveling saleejian , In kner at 9 o'clock Monday morning crossed It i- ri ! , V " v ' -Jut It.:.-.,.. v. ..v .. . .. ....... y. . ' , .v".' ..:Jr:.'- A BATTJ!ID ESIDEirCB.'' 1 B Journal PbetosVephWk Brave Deeds of Men and Wb me n o Realized' the Danger and Lost N o . T i m e i n . G j v i n g Wh tT frftrw! JAKES MATXiOCX. vBl)''WTOH: ' : AO FOR HEPPNER ; IS FREELY GIVEN . . .'r"";T.t-:-:' Citizens of Portland Respond to the. Call,qf, Dls tress andSUbscripilonPourM tqJHelp2Jl JAKES KATXiOCX. ED ASKBAUGX. I tbe country. by team 'to Echo, where they arrived at 5 o'clock Monday even IngSJfefter Journey" of great hardships. Mr.. Topker reached Portland thla morn- Ina'-Jut-Mers...BraAbury) -Bttll -'nd Kelly, all of whom make their homes In this city, continued on .to Pendleton. The quick mind of Toker. , trained In the: school of civis engineering;, was the. first Q grasp the strategic Importance of the, Palace Hotel Building as a shelter In be' time -,of storm, t, . A .brick struc ture on ft atone foundation, broad and low) the Palace Hotel was as firmly built as - a i mountain fortress and' accident came early to further strengthen Its po sition and render safe those who sought protection within Its. walls. first Glimpse of Flood. From- an upper window -of -this hotel Mr.,TookerflrBt'caught a glimpse of the flood. On. It i rushed ,1n Its wild. . un checked fury, ". j Instantly. he ran, into the street below and every man,: woman and child In stjfht 'wa'S'heYaed Into'the build tng.v Calling. a littleband of men to his assistance -Tooker closed, and locked the doors and. compelled 'all to remain within. Some 'cried iuidbe'gged .to ' be allowed to try Uo reach the. hllis, buC Tooker and thostwho,aoted wlth; him forced- tltera to 'remain lriefde" andi thus"' their lives were 'saved. ; Every, living thing remain ing, in the .streets.- when : the.-flood.came was sweDt awav to .death.' but the Pal ace Hotel, wUhstdodtlje VaU of 1 water and. thosewno aitterwara went rortn rrom It to succor the perishing were able to ccomish ;ai Vast deaT'of 'good.': 1 '' It Speaking of the terrible flood time and Jot 'the "horrors whioh." he saw, Mrv.Tooker said to, The Journal today: ... v- ' ? "Everything "peaceful and quiet. If was Sunday and the people of Hepp ner;. were' InLt heir: homes,? most -jofthem preparing. theJr evening meals, ' There was no thought of danger and warning', that destruction thWtehed would have been but the cry , of , a madman' to ; the ears -of moat. ' Oiveq 10 . mlnutetf . time Very soul. in the city, oould have. reached ; place of safety,;, but I do not; think that half the people would have, consid ered the danger great' enough, to causo abandonment of their homes even had such a warning been possible. - It was written that. Heppner. waato-be- swept from-end-to end by. a watery hurricane of death. "It was drizzling rain and there was nothing doing In the town. . At. I o'clock in the afternoon I went to my room , on the 'second floor of the . Palace Hotel to take a nap. I do not know how long I had been BBlcep. but I . was brought suddenlywlde awake by. a.f rightful, clap of thunder. Going to the window. of my room which iaced up Ayiliow, Creek, and toward the hills, ;I saw .a great mass of the blackest clouds huddling . over t the mountain 0ps.--Fr9m that, time-on .the roll of thunder was . Incessant and. deaf ening,, but ithe people, of , Heppner paid little or no attention to it. They thought It-was but a passing summer, thunder shower until it 'was 'too .late', to. think at all. . i.-. -. I sat down and tried to write a let ter, but' the appearance of ; thpse.'(clouds haunted me.; I was througl) tms terrible St Louis, cyclone of 1897, and the looks Of the storm; clouds surrounding H.epp- ner last Sunday afternoon very much reminded me of the. atmospheric condi tions preceding the other horror, y I am not'ashamed to admit that Ifw;'ICred., But 'r'rtinainedMn my room and ;did not communicate: my fears. to anyone,. PurMv'bv -accident I 'went,1, to the window tol take ; one more look'ati those threatening clouds. ,. . . ; ,r i't V,T ; :,V. Aa' Awfnl ' Slgat. "The ; sight ' that met" my eyes tstag-: gered 'me and for a moment I .'could not conceive the 'awful danger. " Unable to mover rVtood" as though chained. "Then I brokrfromwtfie spot dnd ran down the stairs, shoutthg'.warning to those within hearing of my vole . .jiS. fj I had' seen what appeared .to be a great' pyramid of rolling, - dirty' wool. , projecting from thla at every conceivable angle. - writhing, -twisting and tumbling:: but -ever moving .onward jsjth itha. speed of an axpreiK train, were treest bousea, great - rocks-; and ' tons ,' of - earth. ! The wall- of waterjrwas fully J.S0 feet In height and as far as I could' see. behind it a sea of turbulent,' brown-black liquid titoh.-V-Ji----"- "Even as: my -eyes first rested 'on this forerunner of the . flood It began to push before K the' first buildings on the out-, skirts - of- Heppner.- -These-tilted,' shiv ered for. an Instant, then cojlapsed, and the human .beings they-contained were either -crushed to death by the falling timbers. or,.of erwhelmedby, . the. rushing watrsL-andsirangled- In -the .muddy- tor rent. . ;. ' , .- .- ' "I realised fully--even- before my numbed;, brain .would excite my muscles to -actjon. ;thit; but - a few- seconds re mained; before -j th,ls ." mopster ; would :.be upon us. but even-as .to Is thought came to- my mind my.eyeswerevtakjng in the situation and I Jiad grasped the fact that of.allthe; buildings In Heppner. the Pal ace .Ifoiel" alone apReared to be so situ ated as to ,be,safe;. . I'havi monelMWtlOn of , how, I- got down" the' stairs, but :I; knowi that. I ran Into - the fstreetj- and -'shoutij'd ; to by-8tanderst9-cpme (lntothe. hotl... Others aided mo ;ift;-,thl .work;- and' ; we ja m med the'doora.sltt flnd "fqokad them.; A little knot" of fnien'ga.ttered; bef9re 'these bar riers ; andv ctmipelled jthe ,psalc-stricken ones; to remain ;inslde,: wh'l -others went from room ;to !;rob'm -and -prevented the featcraaed froni Jumping from the win dows. .-1 - think fully , 200. people were congregated - In that brtef- instant within the hotel, t Every one of .them was saved, and sftl. j, would ;have .died,. had they at tempted to .reach the-hillslyforwe. had hardly, got .the.ront doors.-closed when the A rush of; water ,came. , ;r . f . fAn .accident contributed to ,our aaf ety; The; old Star Hotal, situated . In-the rear of. the. Palace. - was .washfdTfrom "its foundation and lodged close up against tha building In 'which we were, forming! a breakwater., galnst which drfftacd , debris; piled until ; a strohg-, barrier was j formed .by. the .hand , of the. destroying ! flood'; Itself.:. Striking against this the In the rooms of" the Merchants' E change at' '1:30 o'clock Tuesday a meeting of" the HeppneY' general -relief committee-. Was- held, Chairman -1, ft. Fl els chner pre sldl n gA 1 arged elegallon. of representative business and commer cial men of Portland was present and final, arrangements for succoring the needy were made. t. Additional soliciting committees were appointed as follows: ..Banks c d large . corporations L.. Lew's,-I. N. . Flelschner. Wholesale district, north of Ash Isidore Lang, A. H. Devers. Wholesale district, from Ash to Mor- rlson Herman Wittenberg, - W. H. Chspln. . ' Wholesale district,, south of Morrison Leo Friede, A. C. Kerr. , Chamber - of Commerce Building R. Livingstone, 8. Keed. uC. H. . Bauer. 1 Worcester - Building A. King Wilson. Concord Building W. J. Burns.. Oregonlan Building L. Samuel, C, M. Idleman. . Marquam Bulldlng--C. Helllg.. ' . j .Hamilton Building M. D. Wisdom. Department stores A. ' Wolfe, ,J. Meyer,- H. C Wortman, O. F. - Fuller roan. ....... ,!.... , . , ...... Retail stores General . O. ; Summers, Ben Selling J. F. ; O ghea, Edward Ehr mart,' Pnul 'Wesslnger. ' East-' Portland R. 'D. Inman, H. H. Newhall., Albina Oeorgo Bates, Samuel Con- nell. ..- , ' . . These committees will continue' work untlU.tomorrow evening. . During the meeting George L. .Baker. manager , of the, BaKer and Empire Theatres, announced that all theatrical managers, in Portland had gotten to- gether and would combine their talent at a matinee to be given at the Marquam Grand oh next Tuesday afternoon. The entire 'proceeds of this play -will be. de- oted.to the Heppner relief. fund, house,. lights. Janitor work and attractions be ing furnished free of all cost. They ' Weed Hen. ' . t The following telegram, addressed to Joseph' Teal and dated at Lexington, was tead In. the meeting: ' ,' ,"Mr. Cosner says he oes not require anything but men and tools to bury. the dead." Send 70 to 100 able-bodied men wlthaxeev hooks, shovels and rope to' workvthe debris and dig. out the dead.. They have sufficient funds and grub to. feed the people who are' there 'now; but': men coming . in should carry food . to V.- - . 'V.;J. ..; .-' ' do them for thre Or four day, i ' - , : ' "J. P. O BRIEN- Before the meeting concluded'lSO meti.. many of , them carrying' pneks. had col lected at the Merchant' Exchange, of-,: fferrng themselves a volunteers-to as slst in the work at Heppner. - - ' ; i Money Alraady .OoUeetad. . The various committees that haB been : at work reported to the meeting the fol lowing donation: , - Allen & Lewis .".".; 450.09 . Lang & Co... S50.08 '" Pacific Coast Biscuit Company , , SSO. 90 Flelschner, Mayer & Co . ... . . . . s 240 . 00 .: Mason, phrman ft Co. , . , , . . v 250'. 00 C;. Gotslan & Co. . ,...'., . . ; , : i ,-.V'25-.OO :r M. Seller & Co .L ' 100.09 Goodman Bros. Shoe Company . !5. 00 l Kelley-Clarke Company '.Vi 25.09 Holman Transfer Company.;.:. '.; 26.00 J. E. Haseltlne ft Co. . . : . . ..Vr-, ; 2S.0ff The J: C. McCratkon Company.: : : 23.09 T. S. Townsend Creamery Com. pany Brown ft McCabe.;.:. 25,00 ;i5.oo , . so. 00 ' 25.00 ... ' 25.00 CrAne-Company . ; The: C. F. Beebe .Company.'. Rothschild Brothers.:.1; W. C. Noon Bag. Company Closset ft Devers ' . : . . . .' . Portland Coffee A Spice Com-0 pany: ... . .'.....,". :. Willamette Tent ft'" Awning' 1 Company .: , . . .. .i. D. C. O'Reilly . . .1. . , , . . v . . . jv. ' Peters - & ; Roberts i Furniture Company v. . . . .'. i . .?: ; ' Gardner ft Kepdall Heating ' Company ....... .......... ' &. 00 Defiance Tea "Company X77. Pacific -Transfer,; Company ' 50.00 25. 00 , 25.00 25.00 2ftw09 A. Meyer .. . .v. , S. Hardy.:. .! '5.00 6V. 00 2.10 ' 10.00 6.00 1.09 W. G. Kegler Cash '..'.'.... Wakeman Morse . Transfer ; . Company'.". .'. . ... .... . . . 1 10'.09 H. E. Judge ..A , 5.00' Portland 'Mtlttress ft Upholster- . ing Company ...... . "5.00 Portland Fish Company, .. . . ... v. 10.00 Johnson-Lieber Company.".. ...... 1Q.00 Acme. Mills Company '10.00'. OilUn Chambers Company. i.i. ,- 6.00 J. P. Mann 25.00, Archbishop Chrlsl le 1 Ott 00 Llpman. .Wolfe ft Co.... 1QO.09 Balfour, Guthrie ft Co . . . . t 10009 Zan Brothers 50.00 Rotenfeld-Snaith Company. , , -.M.09-' (Continued on Page Kight. 1 ( XContlBued, pa Becnd , Page. ' 31 fr ,1 vt 4 v l4 ! ' ''.r--' - ... - ,1 .. THB VTOXX OT DESTRCCTIOir. By' Jnurnal I'Ij k '