The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-05-19

hs town tonight G e GenysIepsS f. almost
isi 81 pSs pSes
prevails, and the gloom is appalling. The
victims S of the disaster 'Srs'eii are iaid out,
relativss .0 friends and n''si :issesesrs. rs ana I'd
funerals isu 70 commencs St nine ociocf in The
expenses viii 6e borne in great part by the
Ss snd for snn
to smploy every one that wanted 70 work at
instfnsted to appoint = relief sn comnnIttee
begin work as soon as possible. The Mayor
Bertha Richter did noble thing last night In
resctiing her mother: The waters rose rap
IDLY in the house and their terror was great.
and Miss Bertha secured this and picked her
mother up in her arms and carried her out
Of the house. The water was up to her arm.
reached the residence of Samuel Hypes,
where she sank exhausted. Her mother
tainted % away from sheer exhaustion.
his mother and grandmother Mrs. Dr. Crum,
soross Water street, through the stream.
they came near being swept away BY the cur
feii, but soon recovered Himself, and man.
aged to get them all out
George Wilmer had q miraculous escape.
bridge when the bark gave way under him
and he was hurled down into the raging wa
ters Of the shawnee. He was swept down be-
catch onto tree and climbed to a place OF
safety. He called to passer-by and told him
he was an xenisn, but would not give bis
would reach his parents.
Harry Arnold made . narrow escape from
and knowing that his fathers family would
be uneasy started to cross the bridge on the
Springfield track to go and tell them he was
with him, and he fell into the raging tor
rent beneath. His long rubber coat was
SO wrapped around him that Y was
crowded against the side wall, and with al.
most superhuman effort managed to get on
bic coat. He called for help and some one to
some one came to his rescue, and he threw up
bank. BY that means he was drawn out Of
thought his last hour had come, sure.
The list Of the dead 10 as follows: Mrs. Nellie
Anderson and sister, Lydia Casey (colored),
Barr's Bottoms. Mrs. Samuel Corchoran and
two sons, aged about twelve and twenty-five
Zears, widow and sons Of the late Samuel
lived Just across the creek, on King street, In
the bottoms near The depot. Mat Evans
tcolored,, day laborer. wife and
man street. The child is missing. Orrin Nor
ris, white, laborer, wife and five children,
three girls and two boys the Oldest q girl
of
near the creek. Stephen Donton, coiored, Ia
6Sorer,, lived in Bars Eottoms. William
six or eight children, lived on De.
troit street, between the north and south
forks Of Shawnee. One child escaped from
@ poxe snS two shdres were
son and wife, eoiored, lived in BARS Bot:
Lindsay, lived % on the foot 't Of the creek, near M
the depot; Mr.. Powell and two children.
The incidents OF an exciting nature are
he could realize his danger he was in the flood
and swept mile by the raging waters. A
telegraph operator got into the water, and
tree. A house came down in the food and
sank the tree he was perched on. He climed
on the house and started down with the cur.
rent until he came across another tree. He
clinched 1t, and remained there until he was
rescued several hours later.
N. p. J. Smith, Of Pittsburgh, worked no.
bly, oil night assisting the suffering. lady
went into house to help another, and soon
advised the woman to leave. She refused,
and the lady who was there to help rushed
caught her, and, after she was RULED ashore
she was nearly dead from exhaustion. He
drew flask from his pocket and poured .
good, stin slug of whisky down her throat
thereby bringing her to and saving her life:
A mans wife called to her husband that sht
thought water nv was running into the cellar Of
and started to 30 down to the cellar, but ir
an instant the water was up to bis chin In
the room where he and his wife had beer
When IL was learned that the gas works had
been disabled and rendered useless and the
electric wires we're down, the citizens gath
them to zee how to carry on the work of res
cuinR the sufferers.
Mr. Rowland was perfectly satisfied with
seen, twisted the railroad tracks into all sort.
OF shap 9, just as man could twist small
The electrical display on "wednesday nigh,
10 described as being perfectly grand and
magnificent In its awful play. Flash after
hash followed 40 fast and furious that 4
really Was . constant illumination 80 brill
liant ~ to be binding; the sky was one i'm
mcnse bright sheet of lightning, interspersed
with vivid streaks that seemed to tangle
With each other, so closely were they blen'
ne walton is one Of the unhsralded heroes
,, ' y risked his life more than once by taking
snson S family t Of niue spps. people out out Of The
waters. and landed them safely on the shore
immediately after which their house tumbled
TO pieces ~ though 1t were she'll.
Nay Ths oYs, Tnd HssI and tnSn
MsiSnssSs teisssaps. sslepSone. u raiiroad and % mai
except Cincinnati Reports from the The
and are very meager. Four barni
na sonseSs. Ss 'y ye Ss saa III sas.
ROAD @ bridges on the e. r. 9. and tws
No trains are running on the c., r. y Z. or c.
H. q d. The loss 70 grain, trees houses, etc.
B9sr Ss y aSs eSwsb Xsss ana
stove foundry were submerged. The Meth
odist church and PUBLIC SCHOOL e Sever
asss TSs .rnp rspoos ae 81 DICK
Mil!vilie was, destroyed by nrs, to
4 sether with all the implements and con
tents. It was the finest barn In the county
Samuel Daissll, in the western part OF the
county, were also struck by lightning and de
stroyed; lose unknown, "A number Of nne
sSas w ss uscs g se IL
DAYTON O., May l8-At $50 last night Z
sharp. thunder-etorm, came up, and rain al
most immedisssly teil In torssnt: aiter1stsd lt ,
| q hazel-nut to IN almond. and were gath
| cred in as great curfosities. Reports came
| In gradually Of disasters near the center OF
town and matters grew serious, but abou!
| news that Wolf creek levee, which protects
Miami City Tor West Daytonl, had broken,
and Kemptown, - II 70 called, being the lower
Sf n, g Ss CITY usis :ssP e a srss s. fs0D
| aster was more than vss told. Some six
hundred feet Of the levee had been broken
6y the sudden torrent which came rush,n nl