Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-06-03
OF MANY MATTERS.
ASS oRTE0 NEWS OF A SERIOUS or
49,. "a STARTLING N:TllRs.
kCane Atrocities Practicst b. Geronimo'.
Red Brutes-Nows from the Floodea
Districts of Texas-Adelc Hugo
"A Frishtful Leap,


traordinary escapes, after skipwrecE, was
reported recently at Hull A Keel bound
from Crimsby to Leeds was driven against
a sandbank and capSized, and it was sup
posed that all ON boari-the master his
wife, and three children-had speriShed,
The next day about 10 o'clock the captain OF
q steam tug was passing the spot whrra tae
accident happened and saw the keel natmS
bottom upwards on the edge OF thu sand,
hank He got up us n&ar to it rs he could.
and. presently Heard sounds OF knocking from
the cabin end The crew concluded that SOM
one was on board, and energetic stops were
taken to get the keel in such 8 position rs
TO effect rescue. After several hours
labor this was accomplished and a hole hav
ing been cut through thu bottom OF tho YES
$el the captains wife. Mrs, Snowlen, and
one of her children were rescued
alive after an agonizlng suspense OF
nearly seventeen hours The water had
nearly filed the cabin where tho
woman and her three children were sleep.
ing: bus there was just space left for her to
keep her head and those of her little ones
ABOVE the water, which ultimately reached
up 20 the mothers throat. Whom they were
aroused by tho sinking of the keel and the
thrush OF the water she Contrived to get hold
Of children, who all held on blythe hair other
head, and in that way for some time all Of
the little ones ere kept alive. but during
the day two OF them died. Just as the man
who rescued them got into the cabin the
wa.er hnwed In and reached to
the woman's mouth All the children
were still clinging to her hair, and She
and the live child were in a terribly ex-
haustsd condition. The mothers hands
we're raw with knocking at the sido of the
keel The survivors were taken on board
the tug and carefully tended. At tia mo-
ment of the keel cap>izing, what is known
a. the horse-line twisted around the captain
and carried him down amongst the rigging.
which appeared to have remained under
water even when the keel was being rolled
over by the force CT the tide. The bodies
were placed in q keel and taken to Goole.
Effect "f the Floods in Texas - Great
Distress.
WACO, Tex, June 1.-Tbe distress among
thn poorer ella SIS along the river for forty
mics is already very great Their little
gardens and farms have been washed away.
When the river recedes it will leave a de-
post Of sandy mud over a foot deep, cover
ing hundreds Of thousands of acres of the
finest bottom lands in Texas. While the av-
erage loss on all kinds of crops in McLen-
non and its half dozen neighboring river
counties will probably not exceed 25 per
cent, the loss on the wheat crop in this Sec
ton will roach over so por cent. The.loss on
live stock will also prove of a serious char
acter, since entire focks Of several hundred
head OF sheep each are known to have
been hemmed in and drowned. Waco
lies in the center of the most
populous portion of the state-every section
of land within a radius of fifty miles of here
is under fence and being cultivated or
grazsd upon The loss, therefore, to the
farming community is greater than it would
have been in any other section OF this state.
Nothing equal to the recent rains have ever
been experienced. Considering the tnl-
mense ares covered by the floods, the loss Of
human life is rsmarka bly, small, only eight
drownings having been reported up to Fri
day night. 1t is estimated that the total
loss to Texas by this flood will not fall short
o: s., 0O0, 900.
Thomas McComb, Inspired by Whisky,
Jumps into Eternity,
BUFFALO, June For some time past
Thomas McComb living at Willard, Ont ,
has been frequenter of saloons on both
sides of the river at Niagara Falls Friends
tried in vain to induce him to go home and
leave off drinking Friday forenoon he
was walking along the Canadian bank,
just below the new suspension bridge
When opposite Wesley park he broke away
from friend and ran to the edge Of the
river and took flying leap into the air. De-
>cending, he fell 100 feet, striking on bis
hi, head on the rocks. Superintendent Harl-
ing, of the bridge, at once procured some
rope ladders and with others descended to
where the unfortunate man lay. He was
still breathing, but was unconscious and
died a moment later. When the body
was brought to the top Of the bank it was
found that the neck was broken McComb
was about 80 years old, and claimed, during
his stay at the falls, to have been robbed Of
several hundred dollars. He was we'll
known about the country, being much inter.
ested in amateur theatricals and having
played small troupe at various points.
While under the influence of liquor he often
showed signs of insanity.
Atrocities of Geronimo's Deyilish Band
of Apaches.
DEMING, n NJ, June 1.-The total mum.
Der of murders by Geronimo's Apaches since
they left their reservation is fifty-seven, and
only five Indians are known to have been
killed. All along the ella river for a dis
lance of seventy miles from Silver City the
corpses Of whole families have been
found. The cruelties practiced by
the red devils are horrible. Women
were outraged and then mutllated, their
breasts cut off and tongues and eyes cut out.
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