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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
Morrison. Mrs. Frank.

.tt 49,
Monroe, Chns.
McEwen, John and wife.
Mcveigh, W. N. and B children.
McCraw, Pat
McMannis, Mr., wife and 4 children.
Newgren. Mrs. and 4 children.
Nelson. VIM, wife and 2 children.
Olson, Mrs. 2 children missing.
Gilman, John and | child.
Olstat, w. A, wife and 4 children.
Olson, O. c.. wife and 4 children.
Olson, Mrs. Chris, husband missing.
Olson, H., wife and 5 children.
Osborn, Mr., wife and 4 children.
Penn, Mrs. and 4 children
Peterson, O j., wife and 2 children.
Pauley, A. l.. wife and 3 children.
Peterson, s. w, wife and 8 children.
Parmlee, VIM, wife aud | child.
Pafmlee, A. T., wife and | child.
Parmlee, VIM. NJ wife and 2 children.
Peysou, Mrs. aud / child.
Palmer, Minnie.
Peterson, Samuel and ] child.
Rogers. Mr.. and Mrs. and I children.
Robinson II. H., md wife and ! child.
Relzer, j. ]. aud | child.
Reimbolt, Joseph, wife and 2 children.
Stark, Mrs. VIM. aud 2 children
Swenson, Andrew.
Stein, NJ, wife and | child.
Speckart, Mrs. and | child.
Sumner, j. b., wife and four children-
Slade, Il. H., wife and 8 children
Stroke, Mrs and 3 children.
Stevens. Grac 4.
Sherwood. Mrs.
Sumwall, Mrs.
Shcedy, Mrs
SEIZURE. Carrie and Lizzie
Tick. Mrs. and b children.
Uleen, Peter and = children.
Vissen, Mrs and 3 children.
Voge, H., wife and 4 children.
Valleby, Mrs, | child and mother.
VanEmmou, w. Nj.
Wibush, Mr.. and Mrs. and | child.
Wilton, Mrs and ! child.
Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph.
Weldel, Mr.. and Mrs. and ! child.
Wilson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Winans, Mrs A T. aud 5 children
Whalcn, Mr.. and Mrs and 2 childreA-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
The spr. ngdsle Victims.

At Springdale the experiences were
much the same as in the track of the
flood in the southern portion Of the
city. A total of four people ore re-
ported drowned in that suburb Chas
Voght, a farmer, and his team were
caught in the flood. Voght was res
cued. but a companion named Hewlett
was drowned. At noon n report came
In hat the families of Henderson and
Brooks were in danger The water
had risen to the second story of their
houses which were in the direct course
of tho raging waters. A boatman who
was said to be Matt Roe was especially
active in rescuing people from browns
ing. He saved Mr.. and Mrs hall and sis.
tiers, Mrs Mike Nolan and several
others whose names could not be ascer.
tanned. Peter Johnson was another
who saved many people from a watery
grave He rescued John Croft, J.. w.
Lewis and family and c. Gerlett, Tho
house of Robert Cochran was carried
down stream The occupants took To
the root and were soon rescued
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
PROVIDING

Loads Of Clothing Coming tn Headquar-
tiers for the Sufferers.
The Office Of tho Sioux City and Lon
don Colony Investment company has
been made the receiving point for
clothing. This afternoon dray loads
of clothing from people in the city
were received. Hats, bonnets, shoes
aud dresses were almost numberless.
Barefooted children were crowded into
the room aud soon the T. feet were
clad in warm foot wear. Tattered
hoods belonging to the children were
cast aside and nice hats provided. Any
one having clothing to spare should
send it to headquarters.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
UNQUALIFIED BEFORE.
Hundreds Fleeing for Safety and HUI
dreds Assisting.

Hundreds Fleeing for Safety and Hun
dreds Assisting.
The rains of last night gave little
warning to the thousands who reside
in the Floyd valley of the sad havoc
that would be created today by the
surging flow of the Floyd There had
been rains before. followed by high
water, but never in the memory of
anyone was there such dew
astation as has swept along
the Floyd valley today At z o'clock
the people arose to commence the
work of the day and saw the Floyd
crowding the banks. but the day was
clear and all signs of wet weather had
disappeared.
One hour later word was SEM down
the valley that the Floyd had jumped
the confines of its bank and
was washing toward the Missouri
with the force of a mountain torrent,
carrying death and destruction
with it. Thirty minutes later the en-
tire territory east of the Illinoies Gen.
trail tracks below Fourteenth street.
and tho bluffs above that point, was
one great, turbulent. wild, impulsive
stream. Houses that had been com
TO table homes became p%laythings In
this Irresistible torrent, and
were torn from their foun-
dations and buffeted by
wave and wind. Never was there such
q scene presented In this city as could
be Witnessed from the hilltops n
Wall street, above the Omaha shops
Tho happy and prosperous valley was
rs il by magic transformed into woeful
waste and ruin. Men, women and
children, who, a short time before had
been content in their peace and COM
fort. were left homeless, everything
being swept away before their eyes.
People up town were summoned to
the assistance of the u~hfortunates and
by Q o'clo,k Fourth street was a mass
Of vehicles of all kinds rushing toward
the Floyd. Within q short time q mar
velous, strange and sorrowful scene
was presented. Hacks. drays, express
wagons. vans, carriages, everything
that could hold goods or people, was
pressed into service to saw the peo-
pie. There was . great demand
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
CARING FOR TaE nOMxLEss.
Hundreds Of People Taken to the Chambs
OF Commerce.

Hundreds Of People Taken to the Chamber
of Commerce.
Soon after tho people began to flock
up town from tho bottoms the Cham
Der Of Commerce hall In the Peavey
Grand was secured az headquarters for
the women and children. Here they
began to crowd In by the hundreds.
Jonas Cleland stood ut the
lower entrance and gave orders
The elevator was not fast enough
to convey the people upstairs
and soon the stairway was thronged.
At the entrance to tho hall julius
Pappe stood guard and kept an ac-
count OF the numbers going inside.
At ~ minutes TO IL there were just a57
men. women and children inside tho
room.
The scene was one of sorrow and
suffering among the heads OF the fami-
lies, while tho children. unable to real
ixe the great devastation that had oc-
Cured, romped merrily about tho
room.
There were old men on crutchos,
men and women lying stretched out
on tho floor stricken down BY the sx-
element. . dozen mothers holding
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
AT THE o YARDS
Exciting Scenes Presented and MAJ
ThOusauds of Doiiars Of Dama0e-

Exciting Scenes Presented and Many
Thousands Of Dollars OF Damage.
Tho first warning of the approach of
the flood given the Stock Yards CON-
pany was a telephone message w rn-
ing them to prepare for high water
and stating that the Seventh street
bridge had gone out The whole avail
able force of the yards and all bystand-
ers who could be induced, to assist
were at once put TO work In an en-
deavor to get all stock out of the
yards. A long train of empties were
sent down to the chutes. but before
the cars could be loaded and pulled a
rush of water put put the fires In the
engines and they were compelled
to stay. When q reporter viewed
the scene at 1880 the, water
had risen above the floors of the cars
The attendants and yard men who had
not time TO escape were perched on the
roofs of the cars waiting to be rescued
or for the subsistence Of the flood. The
rush Of waters was 50 great that n
number of the commission men and
their employees could not escape. When
last seen they had taken refuge in the
third story Of the exchange building
W VIZ 0sCA AioOA W Wltnln an
inch of the frst floor. The scene at
the yards is almost indescribab BILE. The
rush Of waters came down across the
bottoms as the overflow of the river at
first flowed out on the east banks
At 1880, solid blocks of
hog pens We're seen swaying
with the motion OF the wind and
waves aud in q short time they began
moving down stream The new diy,s-
ion, block 3. started first and almost
tho whole block started OF down
street. and the report of the rendinr
and breaking Of timbers sounded al.
most like the sharp crack of cannon
Az IL o'ciock there was not q sign of
the hog yards left The large corn
cribs. containing several thousand
bushels Of corn. were also carried
away. Scale houses and all buildings
were taken with tho food. The cat
tie yards Ut the time mentioned above
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A lifeboat Of alum mum has re.
Gently been built at S%tarlsund. 1t will
be n mater of considerable interest to
see he this boat will answer when
thoroughly tested for it seems more
than likely that its obvious good
points will be counterbalanced by va.
rious disadvantages.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

Providing Adequate IBeds for the Home
Leg Tnniphf-

Providing Adequate Iseds for tho Home
less Tonight.
The committee having In charge the
securing OF sleeping quarters for the
homeless tonight have secured the old
brunswick billiard hall room on Ne
braska street, where a large number
of mattresses have been ranged upon
the floor.
In addition TO this room several
smaller ones on Nebraska, between
Second and Third, will also be fur
nished with cots.
Many OF the sufferers have friends
in the city who will provide them with
homes until the water subsidies.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A Philadelphia wholesale liquor
dealers license number is the same as
the number of his pew in churc1. He
is delighted at the coincidence, which
he considers great good fortune. He
is the envoy of his fellow liquor deal.
ers and no ordinary sum Of money
could purchase that pew from him.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A Frenchman has invented a new
ribbon loom which works automatically
and needs no surveillance. If u thread
or warp breaks the shuttle is stopped
instantly and the attention of the
weaver, who could by this system at
tend to many looms, is called to the
effect.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The food reached Leeds about ,
o'clock and the town was soon flooded.
The sidewalks were o floating. The
engine works and other manufacturing
Establishments filed with water from
two to three feet deep Every house
In the city was flooded and q vast
amount OF property ruined At Lynn
everything was flooded
No one " 9 drowned, but the faml-
lies had to hurry TO got to high ground
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

Mrs Hawley Chapman, the wife OF
the insane actor, Chapman, survived q
bullet wound which almost punctured
her heart, While lowering between
life and death she was stricken with
pneumonia. Yet she survived.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A man in the state of Washington
has recently found a remarkable Curl
osity in the form of q sheet of paper
made by nature. 1t was found in an
open seam in a tamarack tree and is q
FOOT wide and two feet long.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

II u reported that = dam at LeMsrs
broke this morning and that this II
one q the csuses Of tho hocd In the
FLOYD valley: In no other way ran
The tremendous and sudden rush OF
watsr be accounted for. A report
from LsMars st . o'clock this after
noon says that there Il no damage
whatever 70 the town.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

Pearls from Ceylon, it is reported,
will be carce this year. Violent
storms have washed away oil the oys-
ters from the famous banks, SO that
the annual fishery, it is feared, must
be abandoned.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The electric motor is now applied to
polishing silk hats. The hat Is fast,
ened to a sharper fixed upon the shaft
of a motor. AS the latter .revolves, a
brush is applied to the hat, which is
thus quickly polished.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
Lost both Lee..

John Hass. an old man who lives ON
South Wall street, wa, startled by the
water flowing into his house early this
morning. His wooden legs were be-
side the bed, but he did not take the
time to put them on. He waded out
up to his neck on the stumps and left
his legs to the mercy Of the water.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

Bill Poole, the famous prize fighter,
lived for days with a bullet in his
heart, before he died giving expression
to the famous words: Wrap me up
in the American flag and I'll die n true
American"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A letter from Alaska contains ON &C,
count Of several projects for the devel.
opment of the Alaskan coal mines, and
it also says that gold mining will be
actively prosecuted there this summer.
The Alaska fisheries are growing in
Importance, and there is an immense
supply OF Alaska salmon, for the can.
ming of which a trust was recently
formed. The Alaskans have petit.
toned congress for an appropriation OF
$4,000 to build a pack trail across the
Chilkat pass.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

There are more bee hives in the
United States. where there are 2, 500,
600, than in any other country.
Greece, famous for its love Of honey,
has only 80, 600 hives.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

In Vienna there has long been an
annual prize for the artist who should
best express the passions and senti.
ments of the soul" This year it was
won by Stanlslaus Sacharda for q
plaster cast Of a familygroup. The
figure of a woman putting her child
in the cradle is described as being
marvelously full OF tenderness, while
that of the father standing by playing
the fiddle expresses absorption n
music with great success.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
BABE LOST.
Mrs. Fred West Loses Her Little One In
4M Tho Elood.

MIS-. Freu west Loses Her Little One I'm
tho Flood.
Mrs. Fred West was rescued from the
waters by the engineer at A. Heller &
Sons works Her home had fioatea
from East Third street, just east of
the Milwaukee,. At the time the
waters struck them she had with her
three children, two boys aged Z and s
and a little girl aged S The boys
were rescued by two men. but the lit
tie girl chung to tho mother and she lost
her hold just as she was rescued from
the water, and the little one was
drawn into the seething vortex under
tho bridge. The child had light CON-
plexion and hair, blue eyes. and was
dressed in q dark calico dress with
large white figure. IL was re oorted that
two men were seen coming down the
river just above the Leech street bridge
but the report could no be verified.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
Guster Chronicle.
JOSEPH KUBLER, = PUBLISHER

The Josephine caves in Oregon have
been explored for about ten miles, ane
they seem to extend far into Cali
fornia.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
In New York

man in Liberty, Me-, who is five
feet and seven inches in height, has a
beard six feet and three inches in
length that is tied up in a kind Of cue.
Nobody notices its length except when,
TO startle strangers, he shakes out the
reefs and let's his great beard trail up.
on the ground. The beard began tc
grow twelve years ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
"a General Barnum receive

reCeIveu o
~ the body during the war,
hind never healed. 1t re.
open aperture. He placed
~# cotton in a silk handkerchief
lSsJ Re it about his body. So he
liVSf Nr years, dying n few years ago
In New York.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The queen regent of Spain has com
muted the death sentences of nine
criminals out of the seventeen that are
awaiting execution in Spanish prisons
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A local paper tells how Miss Lena
Woodland, of Thorn Creek, Wash,
sowed the seed from one head OF bar.
ley -four years ago. She harvested the
crop with n pair of shears and sowed
the mount received tho next year,
again harvesting 1t with her shears.
The tn rd crop her father cut with a
grass scythe, getting enough barley
from this crop to SOW forty acres last
spring, which averaged 70 ty bushels
to the acre when thrashed, making a
total yield OF 1.7oo bushels from one
head of barley in four years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A woman entered q West Chester.
Pa. store the other day, and asked for
a cetrain saleswoman. A clerk said
that the saleswoman In question was
absent, to attend the funeral of her
mother. which was 10 take place at q
o'clock In the afternoon. "Dear me,
I'm SO sorry replied the W oman. do
yon think she will be back by Az And
the clerk told her as politely as he
could, that he hardly thought the
young woman would make n dead rush
from the cemetery to the store, and
what was more, he said. "they wouilut
think much of her II she diA
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The student of current events i
often reminded that fifty years of his
tory now see as many changes in poll
tics and social life as four centuries di,
in Egypt or Rome. There is Mexico
which has had ifty-four presidents
one regency and one empire within
sixty-two years, and France has ha'
almost as many changes within . cen
turv.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
Along Perry Creek,

A big stream of black water has
been shooting into the Missouri all
day from Perry creek. All along the
course through the city tho bank has
caved badly and immense quantities of
Sioux City real estate are floating
towards the gulf just above the
mouth Of the creek hundreds of cubic
yards of newly filed earth are disap-
pearing and just above the Third
street bridge the same thing IL occur.
ring.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The composer Verdi, when asked q
few weeks ago il he would add to his
renown by composing other operas,
said: ~ will not deny that | feel
able to write another opera or two,
because my Imagination is not yet
dead, but there is one miserable hind
rance-the physical fatigue of writing,
of filing an interminabie forest of
leaves of music, all the millions of
notes and signs which compose a score
that's what frightens me-"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

A curious little incident of the
Shakespeare birthday celebration al
Stratford-on-Avon is recorded by the
London Telegraph. A laborer il
rough felt hat and long smock walked
into the Shakespeare library, and,
after looking attentively at one of the
~custodians. went up 10 him and said
81 say, EUR, be you Mr.. Shakespeare
as I've hearn speak ov?" The III
todian explained to the rustic that he
was not the gent leman referred TO.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

According to the new m litary law
Of The Turkish empire the Turkish
army on a war footing will be increased
shortly from 700. 900 to 1000. 900 men
With this prospective increase hal
come the necessity for Q new arminG
OF the sultan's soldiers Cannon fot
the new artillery will not be ordered
for some time. probably. as the army
has LOO large guns. Only about 4Ot
Of these are mounted and resdy foI
the field. The equipment Of the otheI
500 will he begun at once.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28
a Score of People Supposed to Have
Perished in the Angry Waters
of the Floyd River.
Houses Crash Against Houses and Float to
Destruction With Their Inhabitants.
The Union Stock Yards Overwhelmed and Completely Gutted
by the Swollen Torrent
Fire Adds to the Horror of the Day--The j.. H. QueaI & Co. Lumber
Yards and Other Property Badly Damaged.

Prominent Citizens Come Quickly to the Rescue With Willing Hands
and Open Purses.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

The latest within of the owners o.
dogs is to make them wear shoes II
the house for the purpose Of protecting
the polished floors They are made o,
chamois, with leather soles.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

"A grain Of sand will cover from 300 u
700 pores In the human skin
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-13
NOTES OF THE RIVER:
News OF the Boats and Boatmen Along
the Ohio.


News OF the Boats and BOatmen Along
the Ohio.
The Ben Hur departed for Parkers-
burg yesterday afternoon.
The steamer Clyde II" will be ready
TO raise up steam in very short time.
The Bachelor was the Pittsburg
packet yesterday morning. She had
good trip.
The marks on the landing at mid
night showed S feet 8 inches OF water
in the channel and falling.
The following packets are scheduled
for to-day: keystone State for CinciR-
natl, at S a. m; Sunshine for Parkers-
burg and Bedford for Pittsburg, at 1880
q. N.
A special to the REGISTER from Park
ersburg, states that the Andes on her
way up yesterday, blew out a cylinder
head at Long Bottom. She will go to
Marietta and lay up for repairs.
A moderate run Of coal has gone out
on the present rise, and more Is lying IN
the pools awaiting more water. Follow
ing is n list of the boats: Little Fred,
10 barges; Belle MCGOWAN, :; Charley
Brown, 10; Volunteer, 10; Cruiser, q;
John Moren, 10; Pacific 10; George Shi-
ras. 9; Diamond 10; Onward 8; Ark 10;
Frank Gilmore, If; hornet No. 2, 10;
Clifton; S; Coal City, s barges, 8 fuel
boats; John Walton, 2; Joe Nixon, 9;
b. d. Wood, 10; Josh Cook, 10; Fred
Wilson. 3 light boats, barges; Little
Fred, 10; Enterprise, s; Ed Roberts >;
Beaver, 70; John A. Wood, IL light
boots. 1 barge; Smoky City, 10 bsrges;
Tom Dodsworth, 10; Raymond Horner,
= Total, 246 barges, IA light boats and
= fuel boats.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-13
DUEsr rHE CATERER.
4''s Into the Gnded Mirrored
l.ndIea Pa.ace.

'4''s Into The Gnded MirrOred
Caudied Palace.
-'iied US pleasure yesterday TO
wax through the palaJial aud
sue establishment Of George l..
% Market street. so well known
!! lover OF confectionery in this
.e country. IL is a house that
LOT iae purity aRd high grade
s~lS None but the first quail
-ale and for the finest trade.
\. '-oee goods are hesping up
. 'le store as the holidays ap-
'tl there is 8 force Of eight
t..'auel in the candy factory
1l2 day and night to fiji the
~ olnt OF The machinery to be
n. candy factory, the rustic Of
lHI.. ..e l.Ss.ug Of the steam, and
R,,'sC.' lle wheels reminds one Of
|.e... 1aIt no miniature. The
b., '1sl.ents are used in the man
s,,5 . anu more varieties are manu-
av..-aG az any other store this
49, lork. For facilities and
49, 49, burst is unexcelIed. For
49, p1re chocolates, pure
we best Of ice cream, visit
tss -sual, viii make a speciality
ariI S ol out Of town. All mail
el7 81 promptly attended to and
Ia, II. .d' Don't buy eastern
aa5 /, 1--we s. been on the road for a
t2s uo,, suck Tor a month. Boy
,oaa s4'e'Ient chocolates and
f.y i,1. ISey are always pure and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-13
rlre on he Ialand Last NIght.

About one minute after nine o'clock
last night box No. Il, at the Island
hose house, was pulled for fire which
had brokon out in the hay loft of Louis
Quonce's stable, at No. % Maryland
street. The big bell did not respond to
the alarm, and the first people knew
there was fire when they saw the ap-
paratus tearing through the streets.
The fire had q pretty good start by the
time the Island hose company got water
on. but 10 was extinguished without SER
ious damage TO the stable. a load OF
hay and other feed was badly used up.
Three COWS, which were In the stable,
were rescued. Mr.. Quonce said he
could not account for the fire except
upon the theory Of incendiarism, as he
was In the stable twenty minutes be-
fore the fire was seen, and everything
was safe then.