Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-25
GREAT DAMAGE BY FLOODS
DISASTER AND DEATH THERE
FROM IN OHIO.
Fourteen Persons Drowned in Lake
Erie, Being Members of a Life
Saving Crew Rivers
Overflow Their
Banks.
Wicked Winds and Waves.

Cleveland, Ohio, May 1S.-The storm
of rain and wind which began at noon
Monday and has continued almost with
out cessation until this evening, has pro-
duced flood unprecedented in the his
tory of Northeastern Ohio and North
western Pennsylvania. Thus fur four
teen lives have been lost, great damage
has been done to shipping and the loss
to other property will amount into the
hundreds of thousands of dollars. This
morning the water in the Cuyahoga river
was away over the banks. Whole piles
of lumber were carried along in the
streets and swept out into the lake or
lodged against the abutments of bridges
further down. Millions of feet of build
ing material from the yards of the Cleve-
land Saw Mill company, N. Mills & Co.,
NJ. Monroe and Fred Hempy & Co., is
now on its way to Canada and more of
1t is still coming down the river. Owing
to shaky bridges traffic was suspended
on all railroads running east. This after
noon while great crowds were watching
the food the first disaster happened
here. Capt Stanley Flanagan and
Michael Leblonde were going down the
river in rowboat used to pcddle milk
along the docks. When near the mouth
of the raging stream one Of I1ebrondes
oars broke and the two men were left at
the mercy of the waters. They were
quickly carried out into the lake, and as
it was evident their fraii craft could
not live in the angry sea that was COM
ing in from the north, preparations were
quickly begun for their rescue. Seven
men manned the life boat and pulled
r1 hn Nj &c %lo
water, toward which the boat containing
Flanagan and Leblonde had drifted.
When the life-savers were we'll out of the
mouth OF the river an oar broke and in
an instant the cork-like vessel swung
ABOUT to toss upon the angry waves.
The men in the lifeboat were totally help
less, and before assistance of any kind
could be rendered their boat was over
turned and all the men were thrown into
the water. Three of them succeeded in
catching hold of the overturned lifeboat
where they hung on until rescued in a
terribly exhausted condition.
-Four Of their fellow life-savers were
tossed about so mcrcilessly by the wild
waves that they were unable to swim
pack to the lifeboat, and after vainly
battling for few moments with the ole
ments they were overcome and the battle
of life had to be given up.
The names of the heroes who lost their
lives in attempting to save others were:
Chester Simons, John johnson, Nicholas
Scryas. Albert Currcr
Inc llfe-SaverS who were rescued were
George Wilson; Lawrence Driscoll.
George Loher
Flanagan and I.cblonde were of course
drowned almost before the lifcboat cap
A distressing accident also occurred at
Cleveland. The tug Walter Richardson,
dredge Continental and scow were an
chored at Conneaut harbor Tuesday night.
Inc creek rose, rapidly and at 6 o'clock
TINS morning the scow was carried out
INTO me lake with the tug. In cutting
disabled and the tug washed ashore The
crew was saved. The dredge was carried
into the lake and Immediately capsized.
Ihere were seven persons on board, two
OF Wno IN were Yer washed ashore on the
A list Of the drowned is as follows:
Arthur Arthur ~ilson,, captain, aged thirty. H
Philadelphia; George O'Rourkc. twenty
seven of Detroit; Joseph Fife. twenty
i've of Conneaut; Maggie White, cook,
LOFTY I,.y o OF Cleveland; Waterman, name
were terribly exhausted. The dredee
was owned by j. +: Baldwin of Roches-
loss. 'Ao 10 d 'o''i
4 At Ashtabula harbor last evening the
aba, foundered as she was entering the
mar and sank in forty feet of water,
Ihree OF the crew-Peter Nelson, John
Erickson and John Ecknight. ali of
, Ulsveland, were drowned. The other
the tug Snnol after lard and desperate
battle with the terrific sea.
reports from all sections of northeast
ern Ohio, tell of swollen streams and
1f ,1a farm lands. but it is impossi-
WHe 10 make an estimate of the damage.
property loss i'll Cleveland will be.