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TH.T.AMOOK HEADLIGHT. JUNE 18. COHN’S & CO.’S Big Stock of SUMMER GOODS ! have Arrived. 1903. We are showing the Largest and Finest Stock of SHIR 1 AIS 1 S ever shv» the citv. Call and ask to see them. They are beauties. New colorings iu NECK and FANCY RIBBONS. The Newest Creations in LADIES’ BEL IS. SILK VEILS—just the latest fads. MERCERIZED LAWNS and DIMITIES in waitings in every iniaginabl, and pattern. Over 50 pieces to choose from. Our elegant new stock of BLACK DRESS GOODS is receiving great prai* the ladies. A graud new stock of the latest varieties in LACES and EMBROIDER The latest things in NECK WEAR we are showing. In our new stock of MEN’S HATS there is no one showing as late styles as Our big stock of both LADIES’ and GENT.’S SHOES are the finest and: up-to-date goods we ever carried. Don’t forget that our spring stock of CLOTHING has also just arrived. An endless variety of the prettiest SHIRTS you ever saw. We are the King Pins on GROCERIES. Our prices are the lowest. Yosemite Coffee reduced to 10 cents a package. ■ I Fi 1 B. 1 ci t. .1 cit. 1 corpses have been Lastly buried in wooden Remember those in Distia citi iliense trees and timbéis on its crest, and ington. No systematic eflort has been 1 same side of the creek upon which the G tearing the very rocks from llieir foun- made to find the dead, who are undoubt to vn is built, with the exception of seven lioxes, and some were merely wrapped Cit No doubt large sums of monr in blankets. There were still several people, who live close to the bridge across edly strewn along the canyon. Every datiops. The torrent stiuek the up¡*r F part of the town first. The residence of available man from a radius of 65 miles, the creek, and who rushed across the wagon loads of dead on their way to the been raised throughout the count, the cemetery whe- I left. Heppner itself has celebrate the national holiday. J h \ to the hill on that side. It Causes Death and Destruc Thomas Howard was the first to fall. has been pressed into service at Heppner bridge Two old ladies, Mrs. Acre and Mrs. now been pretty well searched, except in of the fact that the floods at St and bis entire family was drowned, In itself. Gangs of men are at work clear the piles of debris, where it is thought that ! have brought death and destructi«, tion at Heppner. Slieldo. and Tom Colvin, his wife and two the Krug home also every person was ing awav the piles of debris, rocks, and N rendered thousands of families ho* drowned, as was the case in the Hale timbers, which lie piled in the streets, children were those who spent the entire numbers of bodies will be found. was “ Between Ione and Heppner, ” said Mr. and destitute, would it not bet i 300 Victims Find Watery and Haling residences. All of these and taking out the corpses which are night on that side of the river. Nearly F< all the other townspeople returned to their Conner, “there are great piles of debris, charitable and the proper thing houses were about four or five blocks thus concealed. fresi Graves in the Raging Flood. 1 above the business center. The house of but the flood passed soquickley that the turn that money over to alleviated homes bv 3 or 4 o ’ clock iti the morning. Many Already Buried. A When Mrs. W. J. Blake returned she was roads have not been serriously damaged. ferings of those who are in direcin wen Mr. Abrahamsick was entirely deinol About >oo persons have been buried in P e . niji . ktox , Or., June 15.— The first islied. These houses were four or five Heppner’s graveyard today, Owing to obliged to wade knee-deep in mud and The rail-oad track, however, from Lex stances brought about by this un? Mt water through her yard. Mrs. Blake is ington on is badly torn up. It looks dented flood ? We’d all enjoy theFat news of the terrible disaster at Heppner blocks above the business center.” is vi the entire absence of proper facilities for strange to see the heavy steel rails bent much better if this was done. Anu prostrated from the excitement, but the wa« brought to this city this evening, Ca Palace Hotel Stands. caring for the dead, the victims of the homes of Mr. Blake and of other towns-, and twisted like corkscrews, and the part of the money might be usedtw was when A. P. Bradbury, R 1). Ball and J. The Palace Hotel was the first build flood were, for the most part, interred in r people are being freely bestowed to all heavy timbers splintered like match purpose, and Tillamook City wonk J. Kelly, all traveling men arrived in Mi ing to stem the tide, and all the guests common crates. The ghouls, who are wayfares. The only narrow escape from wood. In Heppner itself the flood swept setting a good example and showiq the city. They wvre guests of the Palace 1 Wed usually found, like human vultures, rifl were saved ; but houses below’ the drowning reported at Ione was that of a clean path a mile long, and one or two right kind of spirit by taking a par Hotel, in Heppner, Sunday evening, at I AV Palace Hotel were thrown out into the ing the pockets of thedead in such a great William Allen, who was crossing a board blocks wide through the town, following the money raised to celebrate the Foe liven the time the flood came on, and assisted 1 street, overturned and wrecked. The disaster as the one which has stricken walk. generally the course of Willow Creek and send it to help relieve thosewhot in rescuing many people whose lives Mr residence of C. A. Rhea was carried Heppner, are in this case fortunately ab The rush of water suddenly flung the The people of Heppner seem demoralized be in distress on that day. Espa. Bind were in danger. Mr. Ball rescued three away, and the entire family, consisting sent, and the vigilance committees and walk over and on top of him, holding him by the calamity, and men who have lost those in Eastern Oregon. women, one from a «tee-top. They left Su I of his wife and three daughters, and Miss patrols which were so necessary at Johns under, but not quite long enough to drown their wives, children ami their all, go Mom Heppner yesterday at noon, and made Adkins, a cousin, were lost. Mr, Rhea town-and Gavelston floods, seem to be tute. him. No trace can be found of Mr. Strat dry-eved to the work of assistance of the overland trip to Echo, wheie they himself was absent in Portland, attend unecessary iu Oregon. Had a Bad Effect. ton's house, the only dwelling destroyed others. Mr took the tram for this city. I ing the Masonic convention. A relief train sent from The Dalles E. Alten in Ione. It was latelv vacated, and, hav The flood came on alwiut 5 o’clock Sun It is beginning to dawn upon sow Redfield, whose residence was completely reached Ione tonight, and will proceed to ing been built on an unusually low place, laud. Three Hundred Bodies Found. day evening. The day had been very destroyed, was also absent with Mr. Heppner as soon as possible. A wreck Ed. H eppner . Or.. June 16.—Terrible Wil our citizens that the big jump that 1 floated away with the flood, which prob hot and sultry, and heavy clouds Rhea in Portland, and his wife and baby ing train, with gangs of men to repair pair s low Creek has shrunk to the size of all made in the price of land in Tillaroo ably qu ; ckly demolished it. gathered on the mountain crest above hall. this spring was a benefit only tot!» were drowned. The body of Mrs. Red both the tracks and telegraph wires, will the city. But lit I le raio fell in Heppner, Absolutely the only communication innocent brooks. Awlul tales of destruc who wanted to sell out and takta< J S field is among the recovered A. C. Gie leave this point tonight. It is expected tion to the life and propertv are graven none at the beginning of the flood. The tual ger’s house was carried away and rn r. that communication with Lexington, 17 with Heppner is by foot. Telephone and on its banks. Perhaps 300 people of Hep money with them. It was a bonanal people were enjoying the cool evening York. telegraph wires, with the railroad tracks them ; but that was not all, for iter« Gieger drowned. His family is in the miles from Heppner, will be restored early pner have perished. breeze when they were startled by heavy Mes in the morning. On board the Dalles and bridges, have been entirely destroyed ed an impression in the minds ofagfl ; Cost. Nearly 125 bodies have been recovered. thunder and sharp lightning. This was Baile» ’ “George Conser’s house was next, but train are five doctors, six trained nurces, for a radius of 25 miles from the stricken Over 100 have been buried. About $500,- number of people that their dairy tan Mexic followed by a terrific roar and rumbling, | the family succeeded in saving their lives a committee of 20 Elks, and another of six city, and there are no available horses in 000 worth of property is erased from were equally as valuable as the Svenv. The which they could not account for. The by rushing to the upper storv, the house Eagles, with all necessary drugs and sup Ione. Every horse in this region is either 1 the wealth of Morrow County in Hep place, consequently land is held today, for th< water came rushing down the river in at Heppner tonight or is standing ex- 1 plies. to care for the sick and wounded. nesda; being carried down the creek three-quar inflated valuation. But what about’.: hulk. As seen from the Palace Hotel, 1 hausted in its stable, having carried some pner along Willow Creek. Scenes at Hep. Ladt ters of a mile. When reached by the There is also a car of provisions. pner are indescribable in their grewsome- after-clap ? It has depopulated Tiu it appeared to be about six feet higher courier over the muddy and pathless ieiiced rescuers tliev found that the house had Eelated Deluge Comes. mook with a gradual exodus for sew ness, their anguish, their awful dissola- in the middle than on the edge's. A very Price ■' miles that divide Heppner from Ione. been cut in two, and Mr. Conser was L. D. Colbv, a rancher whose house is tion. iNo pen can exaggerate the horrors months and farming land held for bank of water it was. carrying on its Sad Ruin Is Wrought. standing in wates up to his neek, hold almost on the banks 0f Willow Creek, they present. Every heap of debris may to 1200 an acre looks ridiculous to ho» crest everything gathered in its path. ing his wife upon the roof, and keeping near Cecil, 31 miles from Heppner, said Court street, at Heppner, on the bank contain a human form in decomposition. seekers from the East and Middle W« The water struck Heppner about 5:20, her from slipping withjiis outstretched the flood went past his residence at 5 of the stream, is swept clean as a gravel Many do reveal such spectacles when for they see no inducements in Tillamoa and in less than three minutes the streets Mr. ! arms.’’ bar from end to end Not even the foun uncovered, and meantime Willow Creek, when they can buv land on the outs» ' land 01 o’clock this morning. were rivers from five to six feet deep. Dr. McSword and J. Ayers, who were “We had no notice of its ceming,” said dations of a long line of beautiful resi as if to mock the dead, has returned to a for one third what they can here, haw . pioneel The little stream. Willow Creek, which I living in the same residence, were drown Mr. Colby, “except a low’ roaring sound. dences are left. All the Ayers’ homes, Dr. I purling brooklet, and the Courthouse railroad facilities as well. We look for < in ordinarily ten feet wide and six inches ed. Oscar Miner’s house was next de We looked out at the creek, and the water and the Matlocks, Wells, Shutt and and Dr deep, «¡is transformed into a raging tor clock at every hour peals fourth its do slum in real estate before fall, and p« * are nt l molished, and Mrs. Miner drowned. The was rising in it rapidly. In a few minutes Keithley’s, are as if they had never been. lorous note into the ears of the bereaved. bably nothing will hasten tins quick rent, 400 feet wide and 20 feet deep in res* of the family succeeded in saving the little creek swelled into a torrent, and I Every business house except the ho A luit about five minutes. A grim-visage aspect has Heppner. No than a fall in the price of butter fat,far«| Nehalet their lives by climbing to the roof. All of great quantities of hay and driftwood tel, Fair store and Oddfellows’ building, herein is the value of dairy lands in Till* | loafers may tarry in its precincts. A tow to I one , Or., June 15.—A cloud which the Wells family but two were lost and came rushing past ou its surface. At along the side of the^street on which the rigid emergency government impresses mook. J. N. burnt on the hills a mile south of Hepp the house carried awav. With the Wells this particular point the banks of the bank stands are wrecks. A large build able bodied men into the work of saving Howar SOUTH PRAIRIE. ner at about 5:30 o’clock Sunday after residence went the house of George Swag, creek are quite high, and, while the flood ing is jammed into the drug store and to local the town from plague-breeding disease. noon ktlocsea hungry flood of water, gert. Mr. Swaggert’s two married did uot overflow them, it ate great holes several other structures are in the mid Charles Wells and family have move The dead are dead, but the living must Miss which swept down the hillside in a wall daughters were drowned, with their five in the soft loam, and the channel appears dle of the same street. Residences are live. The community is ruled by a strong, out on their ranch for a short time while ? Portlait 30 fe*‘t high and 200 yards wide. Reach children. to have been slightly altered. The crest turned over or torn to pieces. Mud, summer hand akin to martial law. Sevetal thou Charlie is putting in a dam on Bewley ing the bottom of the canyon, the liquid of the flood soon passed, but the creek is slime and misery are everywhere. Crippled Man Save9 Baby. All ch sand persons have arrived from injidc creek for the Tillamook Logging Co. avalanche reared its might v front over The water was 15 feet high in Hepp on the The Mallory house was carried 150 still very much swollen.” places. But they mav not indulge in Preston Marolf returned home a H the doomed town, and carried to des yards and was found lodged against a Hall. Sa A mile or so above the Colby ranch is ner’s streets and rose over the new Court lazy curiosity. Government in extremity days ago, after several months abs»* truction nearly every building and store, and Mr. ’Mallory, a crippled old the farm ofC. C. Curtis. Here the waters house wall. It came down Palm Fork, Laces is force, and when Marshals and Deputy Latt Friday evening there was^**^ ribbons human being that lay in its path, leav man, was found safe holding a baby. Jim burst from the river banks and rushed . chiefly, but was a torrent on all hillsides. Sheriffs pass up and down with butt party given at the home of Mr. We havr ing a waste of desolation to mark its Matlock’s house was next. Mr. Matlock over the surrounding meadows, sweeping Enorrmous piles of rock and gravel have ends of pistols protrucing from their which was thoroughly enjoved, gar Mr. at trail, The destroying torrent raced was drowned, but his family was saved. a good hundred tons of newly-cut hay been washed down the canyon, five miles pockets, government has its true ex music and a bountiful supper being t- * Dall«’- < down the narrow gorge of Willow Dr. Higg’s house also went. Here one from the fields where it lay stacked, and I up on Butter Creek. emplification. iner.hnd features of the evening. Some 40 pern Creek, inundating as u reached them child was drowned but the rest of the scattering it broadcast over the valley. One Hour of Horror. An army of men and horses is sifting were present, including several fromtr Mrs the settlements of Lexington, Ione ami family escafied. Mrs. Elder was drown At Douglas, six miles further up the val , The flood came almost instantly, and was adj great wastes of debris. Three hundred city. Douglas, but leaseniiig in fury and in ed in her residence. The house of Mr. ley, the cloudburst did little damage. lasted one hour. The people thought it Condor bodies have been found and there are About 12,0C0 pounds of milk is receif. volume ka tht' thirsty aHcali soil of the Boyd and Mr. Walton were also destroy The residents had beeu warned of the 1 was only a repetition of the cloudburst a at Salen men who ear the work is only half be ed daily at the cheese factory, which h.?' \ ' Valley drank up the water like a sj»ongp. ed. and both families lost. Mr. Barth' coming peril by Leslie Hatlock, of Hepp j few days ago, and were not alarmed un- A suit gun. An army of women take charge 42 patrons. Behind it lay nearly 300 dead, drowned olomew succeeded in saving all persons ner, who made a wild ride from the 1 til it was too late. Houses were sur- by the of the bodies as they are borne out of Thos. Goyne is busy building a nr« W. B A like rats hi a trap. The suddenn**ss of in his residence, although they were bad stricken town to Arlington. At Douglas , rounded by raging torrents, which sucked the wreckage by the straining arms of house on his place on the Bewlev road. for |90. the catastrophe gave the victims no ly bruised. The house itself was washed Matlock gave his hurried warning about everything movable into their twisting men. An arm, a leg. a toe. a finger, a The V warning, overwhelming them for the away. midnight, and within 30 minutes the creek eddies, and escape was impossible. John Webber is busy hauling lumber lock of hair, a tuft of clothing—these are at Todd began to rise. The extreme height was main part as they sat within their homes. Fifty Guests Lost. Many people are sleeping in the Court- harbingers of horror beneath the npid. for a new dwelling. largeh 1 Immediately after the fatal flood had John Reese is the new foreman at tht Perhaps the greatest loss occurred at not reached until 4 o’clock in the morn- • ' house tonight, and any place they can Babies and little children lie kliere cnjoynbl ing. The tot rent overflow ed its banks at wiped the major portion of Heppner out the Heppner Hotel. This house, which make a bed. A relief party from The buried, with many a gash or bruise, op logging camp. Mrs < of existence, swift couriers on horse was run under the management of Jones several placts in the vicinity, but beyond , Dalles of 30 Elks, six Eagles, five d.ic- their tender bodies Forms of women Eugene I Isaac Quick sold his fine team of horse on We-lv back aped to warn the residents of the <Sr Ashbaugh, was carried away. It is drowning a few hogs and spoiling some , tors, six trained nurces and a carload of frequently come to light bereft of all last week. I they wer Valley toward the Columbia of the supposed that there were about 50 guests hay, did little damage. In one field all 1 provisions and additional supplies, is on clothing save where a corset shields Melvin Lamb returned home last wttt Owing coining peril, Iæslie Mat lock, son of an in this hotel, all of whom are reported the piled-up hay wss floated by the water 1 the way into Heppner from Ione, where I them from the gaze of anxious searchers. from Eugene, where he has been attend and un ex Sheriff of Morrow County, rode a to be lost. The proprietors themselves and carried to the fence. Here kindly I they came by special train. The Pendle Clothing of men is less frequently torn ing the state university. schooner wild ride for 18 miles ahead of the rag- were saved, but their families are among barb-wires detained it and the subsiding ton rescue party of 20 arrived from Echo saw null away. The bodies are borne to Roberta ing waters, His licrae dropped dead, thedead. The houses of Ben Patterson, flood left it hung on the fence to dry. at 8 o’clock, and will lend much needed Hall to be washed and dressed by On the Information has reached the office of hut he secured another, and again an Mr. Gunn and .Mr. Noble were entirely Mr. Londell’s Escape« assistance. Many people are arriving at women, to be shrouded in coarse white of Jnh th the Secretary of State to the effect that other. covering the fl.*» miles to Arlington demolished, and all persons in these three Tillaim" 1 One of the most remarkable escapes was Heppner. There are no beds, and cloth, and to be laid in rough wood ^ the “Union ■ ............. - Fire . . Insurance V'liipoiit Company « served ’ in seven hours. To this Paul Revere of families drowned, as where the families that of Augusta Londell and his family visitors will be competed to rough it while boxes. 7“ Don't mt- Chicago" has lieen and is now lolictiat Oiegon is undoubtedly due the fact that of fames Jones and Henry Blair. The Mr.Londell climbed a tree with two they stay. Provisions are not needed, Il's the grim . ............ reality of death, urrtui .01111 | insurance, by me; n< of circular lettersaml . brnlii 1 the ranchers of the Willow Creek barn of Dr. Swineburn and the big livery- children. While in the tree some one but rather help to bury their dead, and ' women who would faint at scenesone | otherwise, from : gents authorized tortp- country below Heppner lost so little stable of Whines & Meadows were en threw him a rope. His house came float clear away the debris, The absence of thousandth part as awful obey the ' resent companies regularly admitted anil stock and property. tirely destroyed. E. J. Farnsworth and ing by with his wife entreating help ironi ice or embalming fluids has necessitated mandate of necessity without a flinch. I licensed to transact business in the State David McAtee, a business man of Philip Cohn were also drowned. The a window. He flung the rope to her aud the hurried burial of many bodies, which The floor swims with the half.diiuted This company is not authorized nr Heppner, whose residence is on a bench entire residence portion of Heppner was she caught it. Yelling to her to hang would otherwise have been preserved for mud that drips from the victims, but the licensed to transact business in Oregon < alxive Heppner, was an eye witness of destroyed, but the business houses, being fast, be dragged her through the water to the arrival of relatives living patter through it or sweep it ovt neither is it licensed by the insurance Dt the disaster In company with Frank on higher ground, and being generally him. She was completly under water The accompanying list of dead includes when it gets too deep. The rough boxes pnrtment of the state of Illinois orof am Spaulding, he left Heppner about 10 30 • built of brick and stone, were not so part of the time, but did not let go her all the bodies buried, a register of which go to thc cemeteiie? , not singly in j other state, so far as can l>e ascertained. o’clock last night on horsebark, arriving badly damaged. The schoolhouse and hold. When asked alterward how he did 1 wa.< kept. Three Eve babies have been hearse, FOUR •s. but many at a time, piled high . and is what is known as a "wildcat at Arlington this morning at 5:30 Courthouse, w hich stand on a sidehill, it he said: 1 Jet .A found whose parents are lost, anil identi ir - in ..... wagons. 2 Jets , nsurance company. o'clock. were saved, but two churches, the Meth ”God knows how it all happened. I fication has so far been impossible. 3 Jets Mr McAtee’s Story. odist and Presbyterian, were completely cannot describe it.” V ■ Families are broken to pieces, the WANTED, CHITTUM BARK. 3 Jets. “ On Sunday afternoon, .«aid Mr. Me. wrecked. Around the depot the reced Tom Matlock, brother to Leslie Mat father alone remains, or a wife or son or If you want an up-to-datt A tee, “ there lias been a pretty severe ing flood left great heaps of driftwood lock, who gave the alarm, saved his •laughter, and little children left or Cohn & Co. will pay the highest Hat, remember that they art rain storm, accompanied with much piled as high, and higher than the roof, child, a little girl, by swimming for her phans. being sold at wholesale price wind and lightning I wa« standing in and the rescuing parties were forced to in the flood Friends tried to restrain Cash Price for Chittum Park. Dead Will Number joo front of the house, and noticed that a demolish these pyramids of timber in 1 him from going to his child’s rescue, as at The Racket Store. Elias Conner, a stockraiser of Ione, re- cloud of remarkable denseness shrouded order to extricate the corpses which were 1 the attempt seemed suicidal, but he went turned from Heppner at j o'clock this the top of the hill on the east side of the tangled in the brush Undoubtedly manv 1 1 in nevertheless, and brought the little lohn A Co. have advanced The best cup of Coffee in Tuesday) morning He left the scene of canyon I turned awav for a moment, of the drow ned bodies were carried bv one to shore, though his wife and the rest town. Lunch at any time, at the disaster at 6 o'clock, and brings the the price of Eggs. when a mar caused me to look again st the rushing waters do ft n the valley It of the family are reported lost. latest news from the scene. Vogler’s baxery. the hill. I saw a wall of water, whose is reported that three bodies were found I K m People Flee to Hills '‘It is now known," said Mr. Conner? height I would la* afraid tonnage rush, near Lexington, nine miles below Hep- Flour and Feed, at Gangloff One Q< At Ione immediately after the alarm all ‘that at least 175 or 300 people were1 ing down the mountain, carrying im- pner.hnt there were no fatalities in Lex-* Studebaker B turai e» arid Ntt- the townspeople fled to the hills on the drowned. One hundred and fifteen A Snuffer’s. GREAT CLOUD BURST IN EASTERN OREGON. 1 A Cai gons, at Gangloff A Snuffer’s. You Need it on your Farm. Galvanized Sieel AELRMOTOR WINDMILL. Clo If alter y*Mir
