The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-26
RIVER DISASTER.
An Excursion Steamer Strikes .
Bridge on the Savannah River.
Several Persons Killed and Injured
Worse Report From the kanawha
Valiey-Bursting of Another
Dam-Etc.

| CHARLESTON. s. c., July % -Informa.
! ton has reached here of the partial de.
struction of the excursion steamer st.
Nicholas Saturday night on the Savannah
river. killing several persons and serious.
| ly injuring many others. The st. Nicho-
las was carrying five hundred colored
passengers, and when passing the Tybee
railway bridge the boat was driven by the
current against the bridge with
great force. The forward deck
was crushed and torn to spin.
tiers. Two men were killed instantly
and thirty other persons were seriously
wounded. panic ensued among those
on board and a scene of wild excitement
followed. During the confusion several
| persons were knocked overheard and one
| woman was drowned. Several of the
persons injured will die. The coroner's
jury holds the railroad company RESPONSE
bic for the disaster as the draw had not
been raised and there was no signal dis.
played as required by law.
THE KANAwHA VALLEY.
| PARKERsBURG, w. Va, July 22.-News
has been received from all parts of Wood
and Writ Counties and the aft ction
| proves to be far worse than was at first
dreamed of. The county commissioners
estimate that the loss in this county alone
will reach 500, 900.
A telephone message from Elizabeth
says that the village of Norristown is
entirely destroyed. Eight dwelling houses,
| two stores. the Baptist Church. the to-
bacco packing house and ether buildings
are gone.
Seven lives were lost on Tucker creek.
They are: Orville West, wife and two
children; John Baily, Roy Kiger, his
wife. and one unknown person.
| Orville West, whose family We're
drowned, made a heroic effort to save
them. He fioated with them four miles
down Tucher creek trying to get them to
shore, but they were carried away from
! him.
James Roberts whose mother was
| drowned tried to save her by carrying
her from floating house to shore. but he
| fell and she was swept away. He had al
ready saved two small children.
Navigation will be suspended for a good
while becau.e of the break in lock No. !
on Little Kanawha, and up the river peo.
| pie will have no communication with the
| outside word.
The fol owing is complete list of the
| drowned so far as known, though it is
thought that the death list will be much
| larger when the districts now cut off from
the outside world are heard from: Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Black, Mrs. Thomas
Hughes and four children, Ed Boz,, Mrs.
Isaac Roberts, Mrs. Orvile West and two
children, John Bailey, Roy Kiger, Mrs.
Roy Kig.r, Mrs. Isaac Tucker and a man
| whose name can not be ascertained.
DAM BURSTS.
LANCASTER, o., July 22.-One of the
| most disastrous storms ever known in
Hooking valley eliminated yesterday in
the breaking of Sharp's dam at Sugar
Grove, OH the Hooking canal, which held
| in store large body of water that sup.
piled the lower levels of the canal The
| heavy rains had filled the reservoir to the
banks, when suddenly the dam gave
! way and with a mighty roar the sea of
water went out through the valley,
taking with it every movable object. For
twenty miles the soil was p!owed up and
trees, fences. crops and hundreds of head
of live stock were swept away. No lives
| were lost because the people bad taken
| warning and because the houses are
| situated on the bluffs that overlook the
| valley. But the canal for miles is a
| wreck, and thousands of feet of railroad
! track are washed away. Roads and
| bridges are annihilatsd, and the whole
| valley for miles looks like a dry water
course. Competent judges place the loss
in the hundreds of thousands.
TWO VICTIMS OF FOUL AIR.
HOBART Ind. July 22.-About seven
| O'Clock Yesterday morning on the farm Of
| Henry Hermann, about three miles west
| of here a farm hand descended into a
| we'll to take out some meat which had
| fallen in. but was overcome by foul air
| and fell in the water. Michael Hefner,
a neiGhbor who was present. descended
on a rope TO help him out aud he was over
come and fell to the bottom of the well,
which was forty-two feet deep. The
| bodies were not taken out until two O'Clock
| in the afternoon.
| STEAMSHIPS WARM VOYAGE.
NEW YORK. July Y.-The steamship
| Hawkhurst, Captain Robinson. arrive
| here yesterday from a Brazilian port. On
| Ter outward trip from New York she had
terri bic experience. Her cargo, consist.
| ing of 200 barrels of oil and a quantity of
| tow, caught fire and her crew tried to de.
sert. The captain. however. compelled
| them TO remain on the vessel and success.
| fully made the run of $500 miles with the
| fire smoldering in her hold. The Emperor
of Brazil presented the captain with a
| number of tokens of his esteem because Of
his bravery.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF TRAVELLER.
HARTFORD Conn.,, July 2:-At South.
ington last night Charles Dsgnan tried to
board freight train while in motion, but
his feet caught in the step of the caboose
and he fell backward his foot wedging so
as to hold him. and he was dragged in this
way a quarter of a mile before he was dis
covered. His head was mashed to jelly,
one arm torn TO shreds and brains and
blood spattered along the track for a con.
siderable distance.
Earthquake in Tennessee.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. July 2l.-At6:S2 O'Clock