Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-22
LATER FROM THE STORM.

hfNlA, ", May I4,-TO-day the work Of
clearing away the debris Of the Wednesday
night flood has progressed with considerable
eject, Large gangs of men are at work in the
stream, cleaning ont the lumber, household
goods, cite, with which it is filed, working
Walst-deepin the muddy water. The remains
OF the destroyed houses are being carted back
to the lots from whence they came, and where
houses were not swept from their foundations,
Dnt only Hooded, the people have been busy
shoVeling out the mud and sand that cover
the carpets foot deep. On East Water
street several dwellings containing fine fur.
niture were flooded badly the rich carpets
and costly household goods being utterly
ruined silverware tiOated away, fine stoves
demolished and elegantly papered walls
ruined Many of the residents of the
Hooded part of the city are making
arrangements to move to higher parts
of the city as soon as possible The
homeless who are without friends or rca-
tives here, and who are principally celored
people, are being taken care of at the skat-
ing rink, where the committees are at work
distributing food and clothing, large uuanti-
ties Of which have been handed in by kindly
disposed people. The word from the country
is growing worse ali the time. Houses on
nearly all the roads leading to the town have
suffered severe damage, and many houses and
barns have been utterly destroyed on the
road leading to the Soldiers Orphans
Home, the houses are all damaged, the plank
walks thing of the past, and the tmbcrs
block up the road badly and have damaged
the bridges, The office of the Xenia Manufac-
turing Company lies against the railroad
bridge on the road to the Home. as well as
great masses of timbCrs, planks. The bridges
all over the county, with few exceptions are
gone and great holes washed in the road
beds
Houses, fences and trees, on the Cooley
farm Goes station, occupied by John 7.
LesOurl, late of the Cincinnati horse mar
kcts, were swept entirely away. The family
escaped by being in the cellar The orchard
ON this place yielded an income of about 500
a year Near this place the mills of the
Miami Powder Company are located and
they are damaged badly, materials ruined
and houses ttOatcd away. The loss will be
very heavy. The fences between Yellow
Springs and Clifton are about all gone,
and most of the orchards, barns and out
buildings destroyed and houses unrooted.
AT BcuvurStOwn. several miles west OF
Xcnia. the United Presbyterian Church was
destroyed, and the usual number of barns,
fences etc. as well as Il number of valuable
horses killed, which was also the case in
many places east of town. The damage to
cornhedS was such that they viii all have to
be replanted.
was drowned, was warned by a neighbor in
time to have escaped with his family, but
laughed at the idea of danger. But few
moments afterwards they were ail in watery
graves,
DAYTON. O.. May 1.-THE losses by the
storms and floods of Wednesday night IN the
nine counties of Greene, Clarke, Madison
Miami, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, butler
ana Warren are estimated to foot up Slo'Voo'
900.
Edw. Morehouse, a Narrowguage conduc'
tor, anxious about his mother, who lives
in Xenia, walked from here there to-day
and back again, because hr reh on OF the
fallen timber, debris and wreckage, no one
can even ride horseback, and the
streams are swollen and the bridges
are gone. At Treben station, while being
ferried across the Little Miami river, ne ana
the oatsman discovered living BOY cnlld IN
dmfted tree top, and rescued the cnliu, Wno
had an arm and leg broken. He had drlfted
fomr miles down Shawnee creek from Nenia
into the Little Miami. Hurriedly they started
in II buggy with the child, but 1t died before
they got to Ncnla. ,-. ,.,
MANY incidents of the disaster are related
now. In the angle formed by the ralirpau
and Detroit street the house ot the stokcr
family tottered dangerously, ana lusty cans
drew The crowd around it. Planks would not
reach. hut soon Il ladder was brought from
the wrecked fire truck md the family rescued
Scarcely had the last member lahned saie'y
moment after went to pieces. The crowd
looked at il in astonishmcnt, and stampede
followed the crashing of portion oil Brau-
ley's ilax mill which stood near by.
In Bars Bottom, Il stretch OF low lan1 nor.h
of the railroad, was n scene of terrible de-
str,ction OF the fifteen or twenty houses
that occupied the fiat, only two or tnree
could be seen, the rest having gone WIN
the the. Here n man dashed into ,he
water reached a floating house lust rs u
turned over, but, nothing dau%hteu, % h'
erept in and came out with bahe, "A
sudden crash sent the house in pieces
and he struck for the shore win ms
precious burden when he dlsapPeareu ", ~,
meath mass of debris When ne reappohie11
he was hurting through the culveri ana uulltt
ont. ~ have lost the baby: catch II; II is rlgnt
down there; cant reach IT," Few rods DC.
low he reached land, but the BABY was 10, n,'
found until next day. III was ueuu. IA "a.
others went down III this bottom, thret III
tho same house that the naps WIS '"AeH
from. ....,. ,to,. Dotroit
ond water streets and Bars bottom, the
mad sweep of the waters was worse n; nelo";;
West Shawnee had caved out the M ral'i Inv.
hank and the leaping waters vled WIN ,' nns'
shawnee in the WORK OF aes,rne,,rmd ,,,rnad and dc
Two hundred houses were oVerturheo h,iu uo
molished west of the railroad, ana the cur
cont nuickIy covered its track OF ueNus-
totion BY sweeping every .raoo 20
of the buildings anu ooNNi,'11
,hs foundations with sediment seVerni
hundred Yards below much OF the deDris
was stonpGd by the Main-street bridge, ana
"n indiration of the destruction is given ny
~ ,ho niIcd.up mass. At this bridge most or
,he ,he i've. we're lost Those who were aoie 10
hang 10 plank, or the house that renamed
Arm Arm eond supported its inmates to TINS poin,,
u,., went &c" to pieccs here, and they were eitheI
Soshod 10 pieces or relentlcssly held unuet
,n drown. or, il they were spared thls terri
hlc fate hy suecnmbing sooner, they were
'" A. This place lodged the house OF orrln I'll
Norris wife and seven children Ine
house came for two squares W,n ,
,n"rie,e rapidity on to It's fate, ana Jus,
hnrnrn the crash came, Morris appeared AZ
No window with II light The crash tun
"I hnl. nnrd him, and as the house turned a,o
t.isind nnd all life disappeared, ana tne
m' bnmse went TO pieces, the family OF e nlne
men1 dawn Next day seven We're ,ouna deau
and wvi, tro npreared alive. One, atchild OF y
nn, nnd Noon washed ashore a few RODS below
INV u"" otbcr a lad of 10, made gallant swim o.
a"u mia and caupht the abutment OF the las,
nr,dvs p Iie SAYS he could not fnd piece o|
,n ,imhcr TO catch hold Of 80 he smam for IN
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