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The Lamar register., 1889-08-17
LOCAL NEWS.


III. river was up Monday.
Good rain Thursday night.
Dog days end next Monday.
/ The Henry ditch is bank full.
Times are getting little better.
The farmers are busy irrigaang.
Gran. Lynch went 70 Denver
Thursday.
Trade is improving say our msr-
chants.
Lw.Golladay was down to Hollys
tuesday.
The Bed Rock ditch is flowing
hank full.
The high water in the river spoil ed
the fishing.
VIII Craddock is driving the little
tlsek mules
Mrs. Carpenters baby one day old
lied Monday.
J. II. Brown of Stewart was in
p~n Tuesday.
William Rsynor of Wilde was IN
nxn Thursday.
Al. Hassy of Caddoa was in)
tarn Thursday.
Mar,in Myers was down from Cad
1oA Wednesday.
JB. Barnes Of Hollys was In the
siiy Wednesday.
some body will be elected to Office
.his fall, but who.
Mr.. Perham goes to Denver the
hs, OF next week.
John Hess had business down In
Kansas Thursday.
The pablic schools open two weeks ]
from next Monday.
The Burger House is having a
gooi run OF custom.
A aew sign vas pat up on the City
Drag Store yesterday.
I'D. Turner has moved his Office
70 Z " Sla,cr's Office.
One Of the best rains OF the year
isll here Tuesday night
I'D. Martin went down to Carlton
goaday TO view road.
O. G. Hess returned from Las An
izsss Thursday morning.
Mart Strain has rented the first
NON ives, of this office.
Sol. CoIhead returned from trip
to Pueblo Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Traxler went
doSa TO Coolidge Tuesday. ~
Coanty Clerk G. NJ. Hall of Bent
toaniy, was in town Tuesday.
It has either rained or looked like
IAN every evening this month.
l. Jones has been at work in the
toGniy clerks Office this week. -
Miss Aidie Grobeeker is visiting
her sister at La Junta this week
J. NJ. Springer resident of Kins-
isy, Kansas, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. John B. Porter of Tonica,
Illinois, Is visiting Mrs. +. NJ. Slater.
Heavy coal trains go east daily
low, the winter supply Is beng laid
il.
hobt SEeetman went TO Denver.
Thursday night, to remain until
fall.
A. and d. A. Black of Albany
were registered at the Burger Tues.
day.
Edna Fuller cut her foot quite
'adly Wednesday on a piece of
glass.
a new son came to bless the house
'0ia of J. c. Mcdowell Monday
hight
hay has been sold on the market
'ae past week, as low as six dollars
ton.
Mrs. Sanford went to Granada
thursday morning to visit her
BOTHER.
hey. II. NJ. Law and wife have
Oeen In TOW n oil uroal thax, rasida n
The Lamar register., 1889-08-17

A week ago last Thursday Frank
Ford son of Hon. c. ID. Ford Regis
ter of the Lamar Land Office, was
riding with a boy friend in a two
horse wagon near Monument their
home, when in going down hill,
the team became unmanageable and
run away, there was bridge at the
foot Of the bill and in trying TO guide
the team so they would cross the
bridge the wagon was upset. Frank
Ford was slightly bruised about the
head, his right shoulder injured and
the flesh on the inside of the right
arm torn and cut to the bone. The
INJURED boy was taken TO his home
and medical assistance rendered. 1t
was not thought he was seriously in
iured and dispatch to that effect
reached Mr.. Ford Friday morning,
he left for home that evening.
Everything in human power was
done for the boy, who suffered great
pain, Sunday night he was very ill,
and grew gradually worse until four
o'clock Monday morning when he
died. The funeral took place Tues
day at Monument, the deceased was
fifteen years old the day he was IN.
iured, he was the oldest boy OF the
family. The boy that was with
Frank was only slightly hurt and
| was able to be around in day or
two.
In the terrible misfortune, the loss
of their son, the Lamar friends ex-
tend their sympathy to Mr.. Ford and
his family.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
The nRredericL RiIIings.,,

1t is sometimes said that the Yankee clip
per ship, type of marine construction
which was once the glory of the seas, has
completely vanished, but the statement is
not literally true one. Besides the fa-
nous vessels North American and South
American, which were built and owned by
Commodore Hastings, there is still num-
ber of remarkably speedy American sailing
crafts ahoat which handsomely maintain
our old reputation. Conspicuous among
them is the Frederick Billings, four-mast-
ed ship of 2600 tons measurement, which
has Just sailed from New York for San
Francisco with general cargo aggregating
$500 tons. This large and handsome yes
sci is of the medium clipper type and was
built at Rockport, Me-, four years age,
She is square rugged on three of her four
masts, carrying double topgallant yards
and three sky sails, and spreading 1900
square yards of canvas. Her lofty main
mast towers 100 feet above the big Brook
lyn bridge. Under two-thirds canvas the
Billings has many time run 300 knots
from sun to sun, and she has logged as high
as 10 knots an hour while hauling her wind.
And it should be remembered that this ship
is not built for speed primarily her cargo
carrying capacity is enormous. The achieve
ments of this great Yankee racer and of
her sister vessels are tolerably strong ar
guments against the efforts of Democratic
congressman from such states as Missouri
and Arkansas, who would have us close
the shipyards where these splendid crafts
were built and transfer what remains of
the industry to England. Boston Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

en-. He lost his own hold, and little later
a mass of wreckage came down and swept
Incidents like these are related almost
without number.
a Little Boys story.
A large number of citizens gathered on
the bridge at Bolivar above Sang Hollow
and reinforced by people from Garfield, a
town ON the opposite side of the Conemaugh
river, worked heroically to save those who
were being swept down stream clnging to
debris and screaming pathetically for help.
They threw ropes into the rushing water,
but few were able TO seize hold Of them.
A little boy named Hessler who was pulled
ashore gives this account of the flood at
Cambria City: "With my fether / was
spending the day at my grandfather's house
in Cambria City. In the house at the time
were four men named Kintz and three
women of the same name, besides several
small children, my father and myself.
Shortly after 5 o'clock there was a noise of
| roaring waters and screams of people. We
looked out the door and saw persons run
ming. My father told us TO never mind, as
the waters would not rise further. But
soon we saw houses being swept away, and
then we ran up to the floor above. The
house was three stories, and we were final
ly forced to the top one. In my fright l
| jumped on the bed. The water kept rising
and my bed was soon ahoat. Gradually it
was lifted up. The air in the room grew
close and the house began moving. Still
the bed kept rising, and pressed to the cell
ing. At last the posts pushed the plaster
1t yielded, and section of the roof gave
way. Then suddenly l found myself on
the roof and was being carried down
stream. After a little this roof began to
part, and was afraid | was going to be
drowned, but just then another house with
a shinge roof hoated by and l managed to
crawl on TO it and hoated down till nearly
dead with cold when l was saved. After |
was freed from the house, did not see my
father. My grandfather was on a tree,
but he must have been drowned, as the
water was rising fast One of the Kintz
men was also on a tree. Two of the Kintz
women and four children were drowned.
The scenes were terrible. Live bodies and
corpses were floating down with me and
away with me. / would see persons and
hear them shrieking and then they would
disappear. All along the line were people
who were trying to save us, but they could
| do nothing and only few were caught"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
FIRE ABOVE WATER



A Sang Hollow despatch describes the
way in which the fire occurred at the Penn
sylvania railroad bridge at Johnstown, add
ing an inconceivable horror to the scene.
1t is now known that two passenger trains,
two sections of the day express on the Penn
sylvania railroad, were thrown into the
maddened torrent and that the passengers
were drowned. These trains were held at
Johnstown from Friday at / A. NJ, and
we're lying on siding between Johnstown
and Conemaugh stations. The awful tor
rent came down the narrow defile between
the mountains, distance of nine miles and
with fall of 300 feet in that distance,
sweeping away the villages Of South Fork,
Mineral Point, Woodvale and Conemaugh,
leaving only one building standing, wool
EN- mill, where only an hour before had
stood hundreds, and dashing on with the
roar of cataract and the speed of the wind
upon Johnstown, at the foot of the hills.
The great Gautier steel works were above
the city. The railroad tracks bounded them
at the base of the mountains on the north.
Here is where the trains were standing
when the wave of water came down upon
them with such resistless force that the
heavy trains, locomotives, Pullmans and all
were overturned and swept down the tor
rent, and were lodged against the great
stone viaduct, along with forty locomo-
tves from the Johnstown round house, the
heavy machinery and ponderous framework
Of the Gautier mill, the accumulated wreck
age of more than thousand houses, furni-
ture, bridges, lumber, drift and human be
ings The low arches of the stone viaduct
choked up Immediately and the water back
ed over the entire level of the valley upon
which the city stood, TO the depth of what
from the marks is judged to be about thirty
eight feet In the great sea thus formed
hundreds, perhaps thousands of people were
struggling for life.
The scene today is one of the most har
rowing possible for the imagination Of man
TO conceive The accumulated drift gorged
up at the viaduct to a height of 40 feet and
then took fire from the upsetting of stoves
or lamps. Then were strong men made
sick at the sight. AS the flames crackled
and roared among the dry finder of the
| floating houses, human beings were seer
pinioned between the house roofs, locomo
tives, iron beams freight, passenger, Pull
man and baggage cars, the greedy flames
| licking with haste their diet of human flesh
| The scene was horrible beyond description
Infants few days old and the wasted fig
ures Of age were burned before the eyes o
the beholders, and no rescue from such
fate was possible.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
THE ONSET.


The big lumber boom up Stony Greek
burst at an early hour on Friday, and the
rushing water hurled its thousands of logs
into the flooded sections of Johnstown and
Kernville borough, lying just across the
neck. 1t was worse than a bombardment
by heavy artillery. The foundations were
already undermined, and the heavy logs
crashed through houses as though they had
been built of paper. The flood swept every
thing clear as it went, and while great
masses of wreck were carried down the
river through the wild mountain gorges, so
much of it caught on the bridge and the
hill which above the bridge curves back
from the river, that dam was formed, and
the water backed still further up into the
town At O'Clock in the afternoon, just
before the wires went down east of here,
the operator at South Fork telegraphed
from Sang Hollow that the great South
Fork dam was about to burst. The next
call over the wire for South Fork got nc
answer. The wires were down. An houI
later there came a rush of water into Johns
town compare ed with which the preceding
flood had been as nothing. 1t poured dowr
Conemaugh creek in great wave-like wal
of water, sweeping everything before it
The immense works of the Cambria IroI
company were buried out of sight excep
the roofs and chimney tops, which began Il
crumble and disappear under the batterinl
of the floating timber. Half the tow
seemed to be lifted from its foundations ant
swept away at once The wreckage covered
the water thicker than the houses hac
stood in the town before. 1t was no longe
flood of water, it was a town afoat
Many had taken warning and fled to tn
higher ground, but hundreds of men, WON
en- and children were swept away, thei
heart rending cries arising above the cras
of the smashing houses.
The mass of wreck, water, dead bOdie
and drowning people rushed down into tn
mouth of the gorge, where the hills com
together like a pair of giant arms, an
choked the stream. The stone btidge stoo
firm as the hills. The wreck caught on tn
masonry. 1t thickened into a dam.
clung to the bridge and the hollow of tn
hill 1t gathered strength with every piec
of wreck and every body that was crushe
into it, and bound them all together into
tangled wall, closing up half the Quite
toward which the mountain waters pile
their flood. The water burst even th
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

from their pieces of shelter in the mount
aims near Johnstown TO assist in recovering
the thousands of the dead.
The coffin factories of this city are work
ing as they never worked before 200 cof.
fins were sent to Johnstown on one train
today.
A pretty incident was the recovering OF
a fve-months-old boy baby, who was picked
up out of his cradle, safely perched on
some debris in the Allegheny river, Il
miles above Pittsburg and nearly 80 miles
from Johnstown.
Adjt Gen. Hill has just ordered from
here 1000 cofiins, and asked that all the un.
dertakers available be sent at once.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
Still Greater Attractions on the Rock
Island Route.

The Council Bluffs and Pacific limited vestibule
express, which now leaves the Rock Island Union
depot on Van Buren, street, in Chicago, at 2.45 p.
NJ, daily, is magnificent train replete with every
modern improvement which can add to safety and
comfort To its complement of superb day coach
es dining cars and Pullman sleeping cars, (the lat
ter running without change TO Omaha), new and
elegant free reclining chair cars have been added
which now run through from Chicago to North
Platte, in Nebraska (via OmRha) stopping at Ere
mont Columbus, Grand Island and other impor
tant intervening points-west of the Missouri river.
The night express has also adopted feature Of
especial interest to those contemplating trip to
| interior and southern Kansas points, viz, the
| carrying of a Pullman palace car through TO Wi
chita This city, as well as its neighbor Caldwell,
is an important outflttng point the direct line
| 10 Kingfisher Tor LisbOn) and Fort Reno in the
| Oklahoma country. With passenger service
| and equipment in all other respects unequalled,
and the conveniences super-added of restful re-
| cnng chairs from Chicago TO North Platte, Ne
braska; from Chicago 10 Kansas City, and Kan
sas City 10 Caldwell, and through Pullman palace
sleeping cars 10 Wichta-the question naturally
arises, what more could the travelling public ask
| or desire 81
For further information. address John Sebas-
tan, General Ticket and Passenger Agent, Chica-
| 90 IN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
HAWLEY
New things just put on sale
at Ha7vleyS, in BrattlebOr0.

New things just put on sale
at Ha7vley'S, in Brattle6oro.
Pacific MtllS Layn.-One
case, 40 different designs and
colorings, 20 in. wide, said to
be fast colors; finer quality
than last seasons low-priced
lawns, SC a yard.
ChaW Betg--23 inch, col
ored grounds, stripes and fig
ures, 7c a yard.
ChaW dW LeVant-26 in,
black, navy, tan, mode, light
blue and old rose grounds with
running spray designs in white,
1oc a yard.
And here comes two of the
latest, daintiest importations
offered this season tor mid
summer gowns, i. e., FL diff
ferent designs and colorings
in 23 inch mohair, I8c yd.
10 different patterns in 81
inch mohair, 25c a yard.
Most of these two lines are
cream grounds with graceful
sprays, sprigs and vines in
tasteful shadings, and there are
a few all-over Persian designs.
They are of the sort to "sell
at sight"
Special sale of Tricots at
25c, as before advertised, is
still continued.
Special sale of Guinet black
silks goes on a little longer,
except on the SLIGO number,
which is sold out excepting a
short length. The 78, 98, I.IS
and I.55 numbers still to be
had, and are likely to be
wanted in vain after this lot is
sold out.
Excellent line now of pure
mohairs in black, grey-miXed
and brown-miXed, soc, $50
and $I.oo.
Novelties in handsome COM
bination pattern dresses are
being added to the stock as
fast as anything choice and
novel is put on the New York
market.
Here comes a special offer
ing good from today until June
1st. Black Silk Warp Hen
rietta our regular
u - ,.,,.,,Io,- Co.. & 20
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

John Mccartney, carpenter who lives
at Johnstown, reached New Florence about
4 o'clock Saturday morning. He left Johns
town at 1880 Friday afternoon and says the
scene then was indescribable. The people
had been warned early in the morning to
move to the highlands, but they did not heed
the warning, although it was repeated a
number of times up to o'clock, when the
water poured into Cinder street several feet
deep, Then the houses began rocking to
and fro, and finally the force of the current
carried buildings across streets and vacant
lots and dashed them against each other,
breaking them into fragments These build
ings were full of the people who had laugh
ed at the cry of danger. Mccartney says
that in some cases he counted as many as u
persons clinging to buildings. Mccartney S
wife was with him. She had three sisters
who lived near her. They saw the house
in which these girls lived carried away, and
then they could endure the situation no long
er and hurried away, going inland along
country roads until they reached New Flor
ence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

At Bolivar man, woman and child were
seen floating down III lot of drift The
mass of debris began to part, and by des-
perate efforts the man succeeded in getting
his wife and little one on a floating tree.
Just then the tree came under the bridge
and rope was thrown out, which fell on
the mans shoulders. He saw at a glance
that he could not save his dear ones, so he
threw the means of safety one side and
clasped in his arms those who were with
him. A moment later the tree struck a
floating house and was overturned, and in
a second the three persons were in the seeth-
ing waters, being carried to their death.
An instance of a mothers love comes
from the same place. A woman and two
children were floating down. The mother
caught rope and tried to hold it and her
babes. 1t was impossible, and with a look
of anguish she relinquished it and sank,
her little ones clasped in what soon proved
to be the grip of death.
An eyewitness relates an incident OF
heroism which occurred at the lower bridge
crossing the Conemaugh at Bolivar. A
young man and two women were seen com
ing down the river ON part of floor. Al
the upper bridge rope was thrown to them
but they failed to catch it. Between the
two bridges he was seen TO point toward
the elder woman, who is believed to have
been his mother. He was then seen to in
struct the women how to catch the rop,
that was being lowered from the Other
bridge. Down came the raft with a rush
The man stood with his arms around th'
two women As they swept under thu
bridge, he seized the rope, and was ierkeC
violently away from the women, who faile'
TO get hold on the rope, Seeing that the!
could not be saved he dropped the rop
and fell back ON the raft, which foated ol
down TO tree lodged in the debris, int
the branches Of which he helped the won
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
Found dead He'd.

How often we hear or read Of some one that has
retired in apparent good health that has been
found dead IN bed the following morning Anti
Apoplectne is the only ApOplexy Preventive and
Paralysis Cure, John j. Barnard, Of Vergennes,
VT says, II have long been a sufferer from heart
diniculty Upon the recommendation OF friend
purchased and used bottle of AntiApoplectine
In a few days l experienced great relief DR.
DR., Hutchinson & Co., Enosburg Falls w. fur
nish circulars free.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

The Estey Organs. One of the best testimonials
10 the value of the Estey Organs is the fact that,
that have been started by ambitious employees Of
the Esteys, the business Of this original maker
continues TO grow. II is the largest reed organ
factory In the world; turns out a completed organ
every eight minutes each day. Because of their
peculiar sweetness and volume OF tone, thorough
ness In manufacture and popular styles these or
Rans hold the wide world for market with increas
Ing Vigor. Their series of advertisements la an
tquated language which have been running 80
long in our columns have delighted mutitudes of
readers and we hope an equal number have besn
wise In their choice of an organ.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

Last two numbers are of the
drap de Alma weave. This
offer is temporary as stated
above.
Cut prices made now on odd
dress patterns and on any over
stock in worsted dress fabrics.
Haze too many expensive
spring and summer jackets.
This means adVantage in
price to the buyer.
Ladies' summer wraps now
ready in fine goods, at $3.50
to $40 each.
New black cashmere shawls
and shawlettes, and embroid-
cred black cashmere hchus !;
always desirable, convenient
and cool.
The IS dozen lot of Ladies'
Jersey undervests advertised
last week at IS cents, proved
upon opening to be seconds"
instead of the hrSts which we
bought. Now you can have
them for II I-2c each, and the
manufacturer must pocket the
loss.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07

Advice 20 MOtheFs.--M MRS WIssLow's SOoTH-
INC SYRUP should always be used when children
are cutting teeth IL relieves the little sufferer at
once; IL produces natural quiet sleep by relieving
the child from pain, and the little cherub awakea
as bright as a button" IL Is very pleasant ~
taste II soothes the gums allays all pain relieves
wind, regulates the bowels, and Is the best known
ron sdy Tor diarrhOaa, whether arising from teeth
ing or other causes. Twenty Ave cents bottle.
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TIRED?

Former price 50 per- dozen. Reduced price
/ Dozen Cabinets, any style, S5,O0
~ s.. ~
/ Duplicates, n, ,O0O negs in stock, S+.OO
III clubs Of ~ HemberS, S4.OO
These prices are as low any first class artist
in New England offers. You may be able TO get
pictures for less, but We ask that QUALITY be
given the preference. We make all sizes and
kinds Of pictures worth making at as low rates as
good work can be done. During the - years our
business has been established in Brattleboro, it
has been our constant aim to merit the confidence
and patronage of the public by doing the very
best work to be obtained In this vicinity. We feel
that our effort to produce a higher grade Of work
has been appreciated, by the fact that our patrons
have come again and brought sent their friends
to get the benefit of skill and experience. We
are confident the above reduction will satisfy all
persons who desire "a good photograph in prefer
ence to a cheap picture at a cheap price.
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