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VOLUME XV.
ATnENA,lUMATIIXA COlmTt;r OREGON FRIDAY 'MORNING. JUNE 19, 1903.
NUMBER 25
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Thls sPfiJISiv;? Pyi1. a larger and better stoctofsulnmer fabrics than ever! beftjre. Owing b the backward
season we find ourselves with large quantities of New.esiraileyThi8 Sson' goods on hand. fvVe shall not wait until!
the season is over and nobody, has any use for them ''but right now at the, UmelvlieH they "are most needed, shall reduce
prices on all Wash Dress Goods to such a low figure that none can fail to appreciate the values we are offering. ;
Tvva Special vLotSr of
m&S Laces
It Would not pay you to put 25c and
35c laces on 10c and 20c dress goods..
But we Bell you lace that has the 25 and
35c look about it and is worth 10 and
12K, cents per yard, JO cent Basket at
lPliyad.12Xli!ke(t.'.6 ii cents
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8.V Mi 10o Embroideries," in f cdd;.
leneihs ana great variety of patterns,1 ti
5c pe r yd. ft s:
White Braids," in all widths and pat
terns, from ! ? ' 'k U !-:- ' : '
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New Shipniearof jfjncy. lace striped
Hose just received. . , ,. ,V V
r0nly 25cper pair.? -r
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Wasts; Dress Goods Clearance Sale H
commences 'on Saturday jine jibtil 0 :
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6c Antrim Lawns, fast colors, Reduced to
8c Organdy Lawns, all colors, .Reduced t4V-
15c Fine Batistes and Dimities,' Reduced to .VI".
20c Fancy Jacquard Mulls, tan grounds, Reduced, to
25c Etamines and Canvas Cloth, Reduced to. i.?..r
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25c Imported Irish'DimitieB,'eflning shades,' Reduced tqi J.v 7
"!30c ImportecTlCrails; all coIolflaW fcnd figuri l!ectsEeduced to
10c Seersucker ariff Chambra Ginghams Reduced to,'
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10c
25c:
WHISE.X300b$ INCLUDED IN OTIS SALE?
ITc .White India Linens Reduced to
16c White India Linens Reduced to..
12c White India Linen Reduced to.
15o-White India Linen Reduced to.',
(2Qc India Linen Reduced to
Swisses, Mulls, Nainsooks .and all fancy white goods reduced in the
""' "same proportion-during ihis clearance sale. ,
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Ladles :Shoes l
1 All te iiew shipments have arrived.
All the latest novelties in Patent Leather
or Kidt. No trouble to show you the
latest styles. We have them from.
' ; $L75 per fcair Upward
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All the Ja test and most reliable makes.
'from a Rood work! shoe-'at SI. 40 uer
pair. td fine,. Vicf Kid, Box Calf
Patent Enameled at v ,
$8.50 to $5.00
or
Special Notice
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i Ijf you wanf a Shirtwaist for every-day
weir, we hava, abput 100 carried over
"tram last feasor), Eome of them badly
soiled fc.-oxth BOc, 75c and $1 each.-your
ichoice while this lot lasts for ;f? .".
19 cents Each. :
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CANTON and ;
DUTCHMAN Gangs, Sulky and
Walking Plows
SUPERIOR DRILLS,
BAIN and FISH WAGONS,
BARB and WOVEN WIRE
f ENCING. .
As the harvest season approaches you naturally look around to finiwhere you can buy your supplies to" the b'est
advantage. We have a -Very large stock of Staple and FanCy Groceries, also Granite Iron" Tinware, Crockery and Glass
iv, vui vouuiaiEa aie yuui uiiia. vv c win save vuu munev tin vour ymcenes. iiiv? ik n cnn ,
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We have just received; a car -of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing.
Getiour prices before buying
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" Heppntr; "Ju,n6 18."C. A. Barrett, Athena,
Oregon, T arrived here all right. ) The people of
Athena did the lest deed' of their dims by sending
the $4 5 here to help the people of Ileppner in their
distress. - They have got all the men and money
that they need. I don't Jchowwhen I will be home.
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Since Sunday evening, Willow creek
rcany&aTff which"? fair : Ileppner once
proudly stood with its 1400 prosperous
people, baa been a veritable valley ot
death. . :-
The story of the cause of the terrible
catastrophy is easily and quickly told,
but the consequent and pitiful condi
tions, following can never be truthfully
and accurately protrayed. Pen pic
tures from trained newspaper corres
pondents have been trailing in during
the week, supplemented with photo
graphs, in vain attempts to depict and
give to the world the misery, sorrow
and woe which the greatest calamity in
;allannals of Pacific Coast history has
left in its awful train of devastation and
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' An electric storm f a cloudburst that
precipitated billows of seething waters
down the steep sides of foothills io the
blue mountains, - down, j down , Willow
creek canyon, with ever increasing
ipeedOd andOB Roaring, grinding
and crushing everything movable in its
path wayt carrying gipnt trees and huge
bould4fs,on ita'cresi-a soljdrwall' of
total destruction it swept through the
beautiful residence portion of the town.
Homes crumbled likjs "shocks of wheat
before a gale, and the inmates were
caugbiii death' trap, from which es
cape was impossible. Such is the story
iff the?aufis of Ieppper's disaster. The
feme oie never ending hour to munj--w
trmSto? p, p.. yzz :
The horrors of this tragedy of the
elements can , be but,..vaguely compre
hended by alf who dj' not witness its
horrible en"lctment?or visit fts locality
6 .rujq," The , Press baS no salaried
correnpndent on the spot, but gives an
accurate description of the scene of the
flood from the lips of Mr. Tooker, a
Portland salesman, and the awful re
sult as told by Alt Johnson, of Athena.
Speaking of the terrible flood time, Mr.
Tooker said: ; i
"Everything was peaceful and quiet.
It was Sunday and the people of Ilep
pner were in their homes most of them
preparing their evening meals. There
was no thought of danger and a warn
ing that danger threatened would have
been but the cry of a madman to the
cars of most.: Given 20 minutes' time
every soul in. the city could have reach
ed a plaice of 'safety, i I f f:J
"I was in my room in the Palace
hotel, and going to the window, which
faced up Willow creek and toward the
hills, I saw a great mass of the" blackest
clouds huddling over the mountain
tops. From that time on the roll of
thunder was incessant and deafening,
but the people of Heppner paid little or
no attention to it. Purely by accident
I went to the window to take one more
look at those threatening clouds. . j
An Awful Sight. j
. ''The sight that met my eyes stagger
ed me and for i moment i could not;
conceive the awful danger." Unable t4f
move, I stood as though chained, i heb
I broke from the spot and ran down
stairs, shouting warning to those with
in hearing of my voice. i
"I had seen wiiat had appeared to be a
great pyramid of rolling, dirty wook
Projecting from this at every conceive
Mbl angle, writhing, twisting and tutu?
bling, but ever moving onward with the
speed of an. express train, ' were trees,
houses, great rock pud tons of earth.
The wall of water was fully"1 30 feet
high and as far as I could see behind it
a sea of turbulent, brown-' lack liquid
stretched. ' - t j y
"Even as my eyes first rested on this
forerunner of tue flood it began to push
before it the first buildings on the out
skirts of town. These tilted, shivered
for an instant,' then"cbllapsed, and the
human beings they contained were
either crushed to death by the falling
timbers or overwhelming : waters , and
3 strangled jn the muddy torrent.
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j . "Oh, God I the terrible sight that was
disclosed. ( On the little island that was
formed by the steps of the hotel1 we
stood and watched houses, sheds, logs
and pieces of timbers racing past us in
the swirling torrent; each, it seemed,
with its little cargo of human freight.
-i Screams for aid and cries of agony as-
pailed our earsfrohi every hand, but we
were powerless to render assistance.
One step from off the poarch and we
would have sacrificed ourselves useless
ly 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
isui personified, and we standing with
in a stone's throw, but as far removed
from rendering actual assistance us
though separatedirom. them by miles
could only cover our faces and weep and
curse and pray. , , . ,
"All the deaths of a decade of
nary life passed before our eyes almost
in an instant.
' "Then, almost as suddenly as it had
come, the procession , of the .doomed
dwindled to Ho -end. -The worst had
pa&csd. ' The torrent began to recede.
"Oh, 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 salva
tion.' ' -..-:
Caring for the Dead.
' In answer to the' call for under
takers, Alf Johnson responded. lie ar
rived in Ileppner Tuesday after a tor
tuous ride over rough roads and swollen
streams from Pendleton.
"A shocking calamity, the scenes
of which can never be effaced from
my memory," said Mr. Johnson to a
Press reporter lust night after his re
turn. ,
"On my arrival in Heppner I at once
took up my work' in the morgue and
assisted in preparing the bodies for
burial, as they were brought in from the
wreckage covered with thud ami slime.
' "No one can adequately give a de
scription of the horror that pervades the
scene of desolation, agony , and ruin,
even after one has witnessed it. It ap
pears rather as a haunting memory pic
ture which fails portrayal in words.'
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Description of Mndittt. .
-"Wrapped in a blanket, sheet or any
thing available, a corpse is brought in.
As a rule scarcely any clothing is left
on the victim, and frequently the cruel
evidences of the awful force of the
flood is seen in battered and bruised
bodies, broken limbs and distorted fea
tures. The body is placed over a bath
tub and washed clean. It is then placed
in a bouie-sonstructed coflin, a cloth is
thrown over it and it is kept as long as
pgssiblo for identification. Io some in
stances familiar faces are recognized at
once and word is sont to some relative
on the street. Then follows a scene of
sorrow and tears. When identification
is not made, a description is taken and
the corpse is taken to the cemetery for
burial among the Unknown dead.
"I was dressing the body of a man
named Wells, when the body of a little
girl was laid beside me and a man, with
grief in his dry eyes, and with his soul
gasping words, said fee was her father
and told me the story ot her death. Ia
-company with two playmates, she, as
below his home on the sidewalk. When
the torrent came it floated the walk
kway with the little girls upon it.' A
wave of the hand to the frantic mother
and the little cargo was rushing out on
the flood. A moment later a dash came,
the walk plunged into the air, fell over
and was lost to sight,
i "One man went through the flood
without a stitch of clothing on him.
Another told a pitiful Btory. He and
Us wife clung to a wagon box. A
tree struck his wife and she was seen
bo more. , The box went over and his
three children found watery graves. lie
was eventually rescued, to die in the
care of friends as the result of injuries.
These are but two incidents. There are
scores of others.
- , In a Had State.
' "As a rule, the bodies now being
brought in are in a bad state of preserv
ation,' and cannot be kept long. The
air is impregnated with tho odor of
chemicals, and the stench from burning
flesh of dead animals that have been
tcken from the. wreckage.
; "All sorts of reports are coming out
as to the number lost. t When I left at
10 a. m. Wednesday the records showed
that 170 had been recovered. When
the end comes I think the total number
will reach in the neighborhood of 200."
8WAGQAET FAMILY GONE.
Daughtnn and Grandchildren Swept
' Away.'"
G; C. Osburn returned from Ileppner
last night. He confirms the reports re
garding George Swaggart's family. Two
daughters and five grandchildren are
victims of the flood. They were: Mrs.
O. L. Andrews and three children, Ma
bel, aged 12; Vashti, aged 9 and Clara,
aged 4; Mrs.. R. L. Beard, another
daughter with her two children, James,
aged 4 and VVilber, aged 15 years. Mrs.
Ge"rge Swaggart with ' her son had
left for the East Saturday morning, and
so escaped the flood. Mr. Swaggart
also escaped.- . '
Mr. C. L. Aadrews, who is in Alaska,
is a son of Mrs. Brandon, of this city,
mother of Mrs. O. G. Chamberlain.
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L. B. Haoki and Wife.
iThree weeks ago, L. B. .Banks, of
Milton, and Miss Taylor were married.
They went directly to Heppner to re
side and were lost in the flood. The
bodies were on this morning's train, be
ing taken to Milton for burial.
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Yesterday thirteen more bodies were
added to the list of recovered dead, and
the Pendleton . Tribune correspondent
gives the total found np to last evening
to be 151. This is supposed to be the
authentic list, and Mr. Osburn stated
this morning that conservative Heppner
residents placed the total at over 200
lives, including the bodies 'already re
covered and those numbered among the
missiag. "
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