,' ' ' TOE OREGON DAILY JOUBNAL, PORTLAND, "WEDNESDAY EVENING JUNE 17. 1 CO J. r I XI Sim. ?? -"""T NFRV0US PROSTRATION ? CURED BY PE:RU-NA. Wootlard. Clarke A Co. SCATTERED M T7V on RUIN AND DESOLATION EVERYWHERE 11 MS t Scenes tfyat Beggar Description Appear on Every Hand in the Stricken Territory Between Heppner Lexington and lone. Bits'of People's Clothing Are Seen Hanging to Branches of Trees Fragments of Homes and Other Wreckage Strew the Land. RUIN AND DISASTER SCATTERED BROADCAS " - Journal Special Service.) HErPNJCR. June K.Twenty miles Of ruin; 20 miles of the fairest garden . land in the world laid waste and dso - late; farms and orchards, a few day" -.' ' ag smiling with nature promts of ' abundant bounty, are now pathlcas utM.' tiled high i Willi a-conglomarat mass that Includes everything movable In Morrow county, I Marking the sinuous eourae of Wll low Creek, froVn lone to Heppner, Ilea a stretch of desolation extending on Ither aide, from a few hundred yarda to a mile and a half In width Where the little valley narrowa. tin ; farma and orchards have been literally .' obliterated. The titanic force of the flood spared nothing. With the crop v went even the soil to a considerable depth. The entire landscape has been metamorphosed. This stretch of coun- ',. try Is now covered with Trees, rocks, portions of what were once homes, arming Implements, articles of furnit ure nd a thousand other things. Along the line of the O. R. ft N. rall- "ray article of clotnlngnnore that "of 4 women than of men, are to be seen, . . Jiaoging .to , bushes .and Jbits. of barbed. wire fencing. ' At Jordan's Elding, about half way between lone and Lexington, the scene of desolation commences and continues, -growing more appalling aa Heppner Is , approached.: ' At Gray Creek, a half mile . above this point 'stands a grove of poplar trees. . Here the valley narrowa ' and the flood waters concentrated their :'' fury long enough to deposit strange, i grim relics of Ita journey from the town ) It had destroyed. : ... There Is a deep cut, made by -the . creek, the banks of which are in many " places tfrom 20 to SO feet high. .Hero . - the crest of the flood mounted to a 'height of at least ,15 feet On the top branch of a tree, IS feet above tho -4 1 ground, hangs the front gear of a farm " wagon. Scattered bout the grove, on the branches of the trees there Is a mls--' , cellaneous collection of farming uten rti. : v..,-' ik EaUway Samey . .... . Atbrldge6? commences, tne dam: 5ge to (the "railroad. The supports of this bridge are twtated and curved. To the right of the track, in a rye field, was 'found a massive Saratoga trunk. In .-this same field, and .scattered about In the limbs of, trees can be found almost - svery thinkable., article of household goods. "Bureaus, beds, baby carriages, covering are many articles of clothing still intact. Thla bouse, hurled against one end of the bridge, destroyed the first two spans and Itself became wrecked. Then the water, rising to overtop the obstructions found at this point, swept the roof of the house across the swollen river and deposited It on the nearest span at the opposite shore. - - - Between Lexington and Heppner the several bridges that spanned Willow Creek-are-air gone.- Between the-two points there is scarcely a stretch of track ,200 feet long that la not destroyed The rails, were torn up. twlated Into fantastic shapes and left scattered In pieces In every direction. Six miles and a half from Lexington there ia a wash-out of about 20 feet. The grade at this point had an elevation of 19 feet above the tillable land. This grim panorama continues until a point three miles from Heppner is reached. Standing at this point and surveying the scene of ruin ahead. Su perlntcndenfc O'Brien of the O. R. & N. exclaimed yeaterday, "Was there ever a railroad here?" Stretching out to Heppner the path of the railroad can be dtacerned by the wreckage, but the railroad has been practically obliterated. "" .'J By Journal Photographer. A VBKXXOSS XOKS. STORY OF THE FLOOD j.r - - (Continued Frem First Page.) waters divided and passed to either side. never harming those within the hotel. The highest point of the flood barely wet the feet of those of us who were on the lower floor, while on every side death and destruction was dealt to those less fortunate. 'Even while the crest of the flood was passing we were making' preparations to carry aid to those whom we knew to be victims of the terrible disaster. "I stripped my clothing, except my Mr. Tooker, before the waters had gone down sufficiently to permit of work in the streets. Not until 9 o'clock at night did the creek return to Its natural chan nel, and when he -left the following morning 'the stream waa still swollen and threatening. Mr. Tooker's atory of .the work of reacue ia graphic and given from the standpoint of a participant and personal observer. He said: Work of Bason. - "Wearing nothing but a pair of boots and my underclothing and carrying rope, I left the hotel porch and waded deep into the flood. Almost the first thing I came across wss the body of a baby burled In the mud. I had no thought that the little thing was living, but I carefully extracted it from the slimy grave to which It had been con signed by the flood and carried it back to the hotel where It was given over to the care of eager women. 'Hours afterward, when I returned to the hotel again, they led me to a warm corner of the hotel parlor and there. kicking its little bare legs into the air and cooing in innocent, ehlldlsh glee, was the Infant I Jia'd plucked from the very gates of death, - Nearwhere I had things deposited here 'by Jhe all-moving : Bridges 80 and 61 are more damaged 'than la bridge $9. Bridge '2 was en tirely washed away. Here was found , . jn of the strange freaks, otthevflood. Six Jiundred feet of track waa caught up by the swirUng water, twisted Into i gigantic coil, like so much rope, and hurled into a field of rye, 600 yards -way. The grade la not damaged (his point. ', On every hand He the bodies of dead . tnlmals, cattle, horses, pigs and sheep. 3 rest plies of wreckage can be seen In ,. very direction. Under these piles jun , loubtedly He the bodies. of many human oelnga whose- lives went out in the mad , vmsh. of water. ' On each side of the track the tele. - thone and telegraph-- poles were cut lown like so many straws. Hundreds of Cattle Dead. Andrew Ralney's ranch, which ex ' ,:ends from this point almost to the townsite of Lexington, and which was loted for its alfalfa production, has seen practically ruined. At the lowest Btimate Iu0 head of stock He dead on :he now useless ground. V On this property the creek broke from rts channel and threw Its flood across :he ranch, following the course of the 'all road grade. The farm Is lined with - lllow treetr These caught the debr!4 md It wis piled up to a height of 15 to. - ;10 feet above the soil. r It was here .that Hie bddy of ' Mrs fudge Keithlcy r as found. An arm, pro '.r.uding from t'fw muss of tangled brush, taught the "tten.tlon of the searchers md 'the . l-ody was uncovered. Mrs. cSelthley. was at her home In Heppner when ttip torrent of water struck the :ow. Her remains were carried by the lr')d 'for a distance of 11 miles. On' the only remaining span of the 1rst bridge south of Lexington rests the oof of what was the residence of R. A Hill of Heppner. Inside the house- undershlrt, - and - others- did- the same. There- were iur rubber boots to be found oimd It they brought to 4 Ight the bod tea in the hotel, but I caught a Chinaman P1 Its father and mother both dead, A and made him give me the leather boots T lisColoif ion of the skin across he wore, then, while the waters . were Una baby1 fetieheAd ahowed where it! had still raging on every hand, a little band been Wtferad unconscious by a blow, of us went forth to render what as- but otherwise it was unhurt, istance we could. "A I stood there beside that little h!TmanTeIng, which was happily obllv A Bushing Stream. "Oh, -God! theterrible sight that was disclosed. On the little Island that was formed by the steps, of the hotel we stood and watched houses, ' sheds, logs and pieces of timber racing past us In the swirling torrent; each. It seemed, with Its little cargo of human freight Screams for aid, cries of agony as sailed our ears from every hand, but we were powerless to render assistance. One step from off the porch and we would have sacrificed ourselves uselessly to a fate as bad as that toward which these poor, hopeless, helpless victims of the flood were being carried. "Men, women and children clung to life with a grim tenacity that was hero ism personified, and we standing within a stone's throw, but as far removed from rendering actual assistance' as though separated from them by miles could only cover our faces and weep and curse and pray. "AH the deaths of a decade of ordl nary life passed before our eyes almost in an Instarit. , "Then, almost as suddenly as It had come, the procession or the doomed dwindled to Its end. The worst had passed. The torrent began to recede, "Oil. the relief of being able to wade shoulder deep In that torrent and Strug' gle toward some threatened victim, car rying to him the only hope of eternal Halvatlon." It was at 5:30 o'clock on Sunday even lug that the flood struck Heppner, and fully two hours elapsed, according to ioua of Its orphanage and the terrible peril from which . Jt . bad ..escaped, . I "We dragged htm to the shore and there listened to his almost Incoherent story of how he had gone upon the roof at the first alarm, begging his wife to accompany him. This aha had. refused to Jo until she had extinguished the lire In a stove on the lower floor. She had not thought the flood was danger ous, and with her life shl paid the forfeit .Mr.. Hal; P. bentoa, Chief Department Publicity and Promotion of Rational Export Exposition, vrl tea i ' ruiladeipbia, Dee. so, isro. rbe Peron If edlclna Co., Colnmbns, 0. Oeatlemen Toward tha lattar part of August I found myself. 1ft a Tery much run-down condition I, goffered particularly from catarrh of tha itomach, aggravated no doubt by .tha responsibil ities and worrlment Incident to tha ex ploitation of frreat International expo iltion. What I ata distressed ma and. I would 11a awaka" at night 'threshing rer,' If I may tua that expression, tha affalra of tha prarioua day. ; ; ?H ; " "My family phytlclan $ld I M Mrvoua prostration ami ncommtaded I aea voyaga, i J gradually grew woraa. A kind friend whom I had kaowa la Ohio recommended Peruaa.', Though ikeptkal, I finally yielded to ht$ ad vka. Attar vtlng ana bottta I wet much Improved and with 'tha fifth bottle came complete receyery. I am la perfect health to-day and owe every thing to Parana." ' Vary truly yean, ! HAL. P. DENTON. If you do not derive prompt and atl f Roger Q Gallet's Houbigant's v ; d Pinaud's Li T. Pivcp'i Violeft V ' LnWn't ' Marcelle's . Z Baldwin's i of her doubt . "After the waters had begun to recede factory result from tha use of Parana, and I found I had done all that could WTitaatonca to Dr. Hartman, firing- a be accomplished on the side of Willow full itatement of your caaeand ha Will Creek where the hotel was situated, I be pleased to glra you hU Taluabla ad- waded the stream to do what-1 could on the other shore. The water reached In many places to the height of my shoul ders and the danger was great, but I managed to pass safely through and rekch the other shore. If water knee- deep can be called a shore. tit was Just after affecting a firm foothold on the opposite aide of the stream that'll found the body of a man named Gelger, firmly wedged between tons of debris and weighted down with wagons and farm machinery. "Frozen hail, In great cakes of Ice sev eral feet In thickness, were piled and jammed about the corpse. It was as though some section of a great glacier rice free. Address Dr. Hartman, President ol The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. graveyard, where they were buried in a trench. As soon as one cargo of death was deposited the wagon which did service as an impromptu hearse would return for another load. Speed In dis posing of the dead waa essential to the safety of the living. Seeaes Most Shocking. "A terribly touching scene came under my observation at the bank. It waa when the body of Mrs. Thomas Matlock had split off and been swept down the L wf" 'ound Her .husband valley by the watery avalanche. , j wa" standing py and Mr. Ball led ,him I called, for help and about. 10 men arouna lne comer where they engaged. gathered to assist me. We were obliged 1 ln conversation while the corpse was to fasten ropes to the different articles Jeosited with the others. Then, the which held the Geleer comse ln Mace sorrowful tldlogs were broken to the and then all take hold and Dull together husband. Without a word Tom .Matlock in order that thev mlaht be loosened walked Into the bank and stood looking nnitthe ilenrt hrxtv removed "TM vn of i OWn at H mat was mortal Of the W( ust aecomniishsd. but oniv ftr th J man who bad been his companion . . . . . through 80 years of life. A friend strode most fatiguing effort I relate this n.h .t.'ilT. ' l-'-'u ',-'" ','V''';-.,':!-'' !! 1 471 rTbilet Watei? m iv: 'i J Tl a II I ml : Colgate's " William's r lUcksecker's Hadant's Valiant's Alfred Wrisht's All odoks and sizes special prices TT a ' AT AUCTION... r At A. N. Wright's, tew J'weler My lease does not expire until Sept 1, and, consequently, X will remain in the present location until that time and dis pose of the goods remaining over from the auction' at private sale. Those who come arly WILL GET BARGAINS. Th. OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Has been somewhat neglected during the Auction Sale but now we are ready to attend to all our patients. ;" DONT HESITATE to ask us to examine your eyes (free) if you suspect any eye trouble. The service entails no obligation to buy glasses here if they should be needed. ', l-Lj.:,,,-: iff. ., -. ,". . ,1 , ,;v.mr i v-t - merely -as' an Incident, for theTe -were thanked jDod that He had made of me hundreds of Just such cases ln many t V 'V '7Ja if v ' ." ..... o SJsaUUbttbMl By Jbnrnul Fhotographer. THB VATK Or TXS PI.OOD. Blindly Matlock groped about until he found the band of his friend, and to gether they stood like statues, each I looking unutterable sorrow into each others eyes. Then the -flood of grief came and Matlock wept as would a little child. It was the most touching thing I ever saw." As soon as daylight came, Mr. Tooker says, the Palace Hotel was turned Into a public eating house. "Every storekeeper in Heppner who had anything left in his stock turned it over to the proprietor of the Palace oHtel," he continued, "and volunteera I did the cooking. Free tables were set and men almost prostrated by the ter rible toll of the past night, hurried to I them ln the early morning and ate with the ravenous appetites that came from utter exhaustion. . 'Bedclothing and tablecloths went from the hotel to clothe the stark and naked dead, and there waa no word of I complaint. The proprietor was more than willing. Everything that was his belonged to those who needed It. The generosity of every man. woman and child, except an unknown few, coulfnot h.v. h..n .upm b.u . Y. . I "Early ln the evening robbers began their work, but ns,saon as .their depre dations became known most rigorous mnnniirea w.ra taken tn hrlntf tham " . w w.u.M ' I la stop, ouns and pistols were served 4 in 'the Heppnee" hills, and for a short Iferors out to an tne searchers, ana orders were time the creek Tose above its banks, ivn issued to snoot down without question I damage was done, however, at that time. 4 "" , '''f ' I- (T C SHOES 500 pairs MEN'S SHOES, v Worth $1.75. C BLANKETS, grey ; or white double -blankets. , C SOAP large cake best LAUNDRY SOAP. . ' .... ..... ...r ... v r?yr - , i r 1 ii n ' ' . i SiiisaaTO I iSUMMERL RESORT5 Jentrslly Xrficated with Beantlful Surroundings. &e Hackney SEAV1EW, WASH. Tlat Surf aatUng. Jome Comforts. Excellent Table Roar.d. nd a Most Desirable Place for Families. Ipaclous BHtliig-roum. Second stop after leaving Ilwaco. Postofflca address, ZXiWAOO, Will. teasonable Family Ratps. 'lne View of the. Ocean, excellent Cuisine. Ladles' and Gents' Bathing Suits Rent. for THE NEWTON V s NEWTOH STATIOW. ;Kw Improvements Mew Management KATES $2.00 PES DAT. . O. SVJckham, Proprietor. rs, Wy H. Kenait. Hostess. X.OSO BEACX, WASH. NlcGuire's Hotel SEASIDE, OREGON Mrs. O. McQuire. Prop. ; Open All the Year 'Round Rates Reasonable. ; nils Popular Hotel is new and clean and beautifully located, on the Banks 6t 'J the Necanicum, within Ave minutes' walk of CX.ATBOI' BEAOK. fti Most rieaaaat Seaside Besert on the northwest raolne Coast. K. M. Grimes, Proprietor. The New Grimes Hotel - Free Bus to and From Hotel. Rates Furnished on Application ' . - CLATSOP BEACH -t.-' ly hotel overlooking the ocean. . XUtw inAcmc inornriNi if tie sea from nearly every room. . CAjILc, UKUUU1 the Instrument of .Ills - Raving power upon this earth and that my efforts had at least not been wholly without result. I longed to take tho little one in my arms and bring It with me to be rny own. but I realized that my place was with the -me tn ho field ot further labor and not among the women In the hos- nital and with the dead, so I turned away and returned io the task of res cue and reclamation. I do not know the name of the child whose life I saved. I never-paw It afrain. ,w . "Mr. Ball, a member of our pnrty from the hotel, waded Into tne water nd ciutched the clothing of a Chinese wbp was floating past. Notwithstanding a Druiai appeal io ici mm b un.uoi he was -6h a Chlnamnn," Ball spt tlie man upon , his back and wade;l to a place of safety. "It is a human life. Call saw, -ana 1 will save It if I can!' "We saw one house coming toward us, rfnd even as we planned to reach it with our ropes, it 'struck against some obstruction and broke in halY. , "On the second floor of " one-half,' of "the house was an aged man," and frm a window on the other section of Ue sun dered building a woman stretched her arms toward her husband, tvhd jfrasped them and attempted' ib drag her upon the same impromptu raft to which he. clung. But his efforts wore useless and the pitiless flood tore the iwo ' Rpart, hurlins-thl. woman tf an 'awful death and sweeping the man within our reach. other sections of the city. How a deadhousc was made of the Bank of Heppner is told by Mr. Tooker as follows: The Bank a Morgue. "We early hit upon the bank as the crating the dead. Such action was not necessary to carry out. for the threat had its effect and there were no further complaints. "At daybreak we met In the office of the hotel and formed a provisional gov ernment, for all social and political lines had been swept away by the flood. A few of the strong men of the town took the administration of government into their hands, things were reduced to a system and thj work went on witholit a hitch." At 9 o'clock on the morning of Mon- MUCH CREDIT DUE . - 0. R. & N, OFFICIALS TAIIIS. June 1.?A. Ulohler, Pres ldent O. R. A N. Company Do all you con for the relief t destitute and, for devastated Cities . . on the Heppnor branch, . t inn XT TTATfUTUr A V ri The above cablegram was received by President Mohlor this morning from Mr. As fast as the dead bodies were exhumed m,t inru nr sin,n Tr. tmv .nH SLV X ". A, . from tho niles of filth nnrt n.hhlh ,,i-. T V-.S'ZI-VJ::' roncn capiuu. as u which they had been buried by the flood '"T.d' do. V.T wa' co ..Id. 1" " ' ' ' i iinirtiiinii neio iiviimvu ' m , w.x.. "and realised that for 14 hpurs at least Th aentiment expressed In the above we wouia do useless ana in tne way, lor I alupatch snggests the masterly way m we were utterly exhausted. At the end wnich the officials Of the O. R. & K. vi iimv imio vnci o wuum u pieuiy vi i nave. both In oeijair oi xne roaa ana in men lh from outside points to take our mniunctlon with local committees and Places. " " J others, done all In their power to aid ln 'So we started across the bills to-1 , rilf work. - -u .., ward Echo, for the most part sleeping The: Immense losses thst will fall on in tne seats- or tne wagon tnni naa ha mmitanv n.v. been' forgotten en- been given us by the Uyery stable keeper, tlrely in the efforts t put forg succor they were carried to the bank and laid in rows along Its floor. Here a commit tee of citizens busied themselves in the wort of Identification, and Buch infor mation as could be obtained was written down In n ledger takpn from tho book rack of the bank. On the pages de signed to record their debts- in life the last accounting of many a Heppner citi zen was written. . . wen wun janicrns searched everv nook and corner of the wrecked and de vastated town.inJ whenever a shout went up a dozan, would hurry there to rentier wnat hcp they could. It was a gruesome task", this handling of the wn mnrked bv rows of dead, but to me it munt -have been a which had been -strewnin straight line The road was ' very difficult, ln. many places having beep, washed out alto gether. We could see. where the flood had broken upon the hills and the course of the, main stream down the mountain was marked by rows of giant boulders, pleasure compared to the suffering of thosa who had lost relatives, friends and all their earthly goods, but who still turned out with a will and sup pressed their pflef that they might' al leviate the Buffering of others. "Fifty bodies were In this way col lected at the bank, and,' at 7 o'clock on Monday morning the work of burial bo;an. ". . . :- v -. i ''fre- wa; no' ceremony, no prayer, no fufteral only a removal of the dead. "Volunteers went to the lumber yard and returned with pine boards. A hardware- -store ( yielded hammers, nails and j-saws'and rfide coffins, hlch wore noth ing but narrow boxes speedily gathered. The corpses were washed and swathed ln bedsheets,' Then they were placed in these pine mboxes and carried to the r along either side of itsimprovised chan- nel. ' L - -.-..- In the willow Greek Canyoni six miles above Heppneri the first hoUsi had been swept away, and It was somewhere between this point and the main town that the full force of the wteerspoqt first was felt. 'At Echo we found that the last news that had been received from Heppner was . over the O. R. & N. Company's wire. Operator Korrin.'who. with his wife perished in tho flood, telegraphed The flood is coming, Just before the wires went down.-- Tho bodies-.of this man and hi wife. were found dead, but their two children escaped te the hills gn'd Vera notjiarmed." a .Mr. Toeker says that ' on Saturday night there had been a small cloudburst to those who need It: . ' When the first naws of the disaster readied Portland in desglatory dis patches, the O. R. & NV ordered two re lief trains Sent-at once, one from Ar lington and one frort The pallos. j The timely assistance of those thus sent at company expense did untold good. Medicines, bedding and such; food as could be gathered in the . short time were ; forwarded ori these trains. , For the past three days all passen ger, freight and relief tratni. both regu lar and special have been offered- freely to nv who would- fro to help the suf- Not only from Portland hava helpers been, carried free. ? but from Walla Walla, Pendleton. ' The Dalles. TJmatllla. Huntington and other places. A very conservative estimate places he -number of those whotliave been carried free from various points to Heppner at 480. Hundreds of tons of freight have' been taken to Heppner end oiher points North free. The rail- -road company also has a number of pri vate detectives stationed where needed to prevent vandalism and protect prl- " vate property. Neither effort nor ex-. pense has been spared and greater credit is due the O. R. & N. than In the dls-f ordered ttate of affaii-s can yet be estimated. -Uurtne; the tlmo when many anxious.' person were waiting for new. of friends and relatives In breathless ex pectation the private "wires or the Ore gon Hallway &, Navigation CompanyAJn ' the headquarter' building.' as far YA. cervlceablc. .'were freely" donated. X. Many Xsroio Aotp. 7 Oniclnl. if tha rnnd ara nlramt nnn. slderinsr a suitable way to express the J thanks of the company for many herolo acts that resulted in the saving of life. J.. M. Kernan. the O. R. & N. station agent, who stood sky his post and -warned Lexington and lone of the im pending disaster, and who with his wife ' was drowned, a few minutes after tha v !.ist dispatch had U;n sent and an swered, U-ft three small children, the eldest eight year. old. So far as known they have no living relatives, and jn ' view : of : tho herolo services of their .T;' futher the company will see that - thi " ; little ones ncvet : want. : ; . v . "The loss to the comnativ will a.. grt catfl $1 OS. 000." said President Mohler this morning The greatest loss 'will fContinUed on Page Eight.). futa. Tela and Spo-kOng. Bottled Only oi the Brewery in St Lool. ' . I : . order frosa riccsesi : nmrr tonptif amaamammmmrmammm ill r I II 1 r v. -