The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-04-23
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storm Perils In Kansas.
KANSAS CIIY, April 22,-rho Times
Medicine Lodge, Kausas, special gives
the following additional particulars OF
Il disastrous Hood there. Tho town Is sit
uatod between tho Medicine river aud
Vim creek;
Early Tuesday morning the ilood
came down, taO streams quickly over
downing their bottom lands To the depth
al shout 10 ieet, In Elm creek bottoms,
east OF tOwn, @ dcE6n houses were on
tirely destroyed, and many OF the occu-
pants wGT3 drowned or saved only by
c!nging ~ branches OF trees. In camps,
On tho bottoms, were 10 or 10 omlgrant
wagons -liCd with iamilieC, aud not half
~ those persons have yet boon found.
NOlth 81 here ontire families were
arov nod; others made their escapes.
All last night streams were 40 kigh no
communication could no had With the
| cast and to,dRy the first dispatches were
sent out. The stores IN town were
closed yesterday and every clGizen On
Gagged In the work ofvescuing people 10y
| boats aud rats from their porilous posi-
/ tons In trees or ON mousse tons. This
work was extremely hazardous
and by night tdl there
were still some isolated prisoners.
| 4 relief party was out all night picking
up those Uniortunates. The people in
/ Medicine river bottom had earlier
warning and ali OF them escaped with
/ their lives, though huGreds of cattle
weTo drowned and great fields OF crops
| ruined. Hundreds OF dead animals
The rise started at dark on Monday
night aud the rain poured steadily for
| six hours, which was followed Oy q
cloud-burst north of town.
LIST OF THE LOST.
Among those known to be lost are the
| following:
| G. w. Paddock, wife and four chi.
dren. The bodies of the wife and three
of tho children were recovered.
Jerry Gibbs and daughter.
| Mrs. Harris and daughter. The bod
les of the latter TWO were recovered.
The wife and four children of Samuel
Maddox. The bodies OF the woman and
two of the children were recovered.
-Four wagons containing movers have
not been heard from and it is thought
all the occupants have persisted. No
news has yet been received from the
country below here, but it is feared
there has been serious loss of lite
The town council speedily orr. lized
relief measures, and several thousand
The bodies thus far recovered Will be
buried this afternoon. District court
has adjourned and the court room has
been turned into morgue.
Sun City and Lake City, situated west
of this place, were inundated, but the
damage is not serious.
The village of Elm Mills was also
flooded, but with no loss of life.
ANOTHER DETAILED ACCOUNT.
| WICHITA, KAs, April PA special to
the Daily Eagle, dated yesterday, at
Medicine Lodge, recites the fearful re-
suits of water-spout or cloud-bu1st to
the residents of tie Medicine river val
ley, which seems to have been the same
that filed the Ninnescat to
water rolled down over the lowlands
east of Medicine Lodge City, 8 to u feet,
perpendicular, carrying death in its
wake. Several whole families are
known to have been drowned. Yester-
day morning parties who went out to
give relief found men, women and chill
dren cliuging to trees, with nothing but
their night clothes to protect
ttem, and some without any clothing
whatever, but still alive. Their cries
could be heard as early as 4 o'clock in
the morning, above the roaring waters.
Three attempts were made to rescue
parties beyonk the river, but each boat
the occupants only saved them
Five bodie1 have been recovered up to
the hour of the writing of the despatch,
which was sent over to the first rail
road point by mail, when another body
was in sight, but could not be reached.
There were eight movers wagons in the
bottoms and one old man has recognized
the bodies of three OF his family,
his wife and two children, boys respec
lively five and seven years Of age.
Jas. Gibbs and his daughter and niece
were washed away with their home.
Mrs. Harris and her little girl, eleven
years old were found drowned.
G. w. Paddock and family, consisting
OF wife and four children, are thought
to be all drowned.
Frank Shopper put his wife and child
on the roof and his house went down.
He was knocked of by projecting
limb and swan ashore several miles
below, but OF the fate of his wife and
child nothing was known.