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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
mL-FATED JOHNsTOwN.
Greatest Flood since the Memorable
Disaster of 1859.

JOHNSTOwN, Pa, May 20.-The heavi-
est rainstorm since the big flood of 1882
ceased this morning and early light dis
closed flooded streets and alleys and cell
lars full of water. Merchants here worked
all night getting goods out of cellars.
About $1,000 worth of lumber belonging to
the Conemaugh Lumber Company broke
loose and was carried away, tearing two
bridges away and causing great damage
Fifty feet of a stone wall along the
Conemaugh river was washed away and
crops in the vicinity were ruined, entail
ing a loss OF thousands of dollars.
Reports from Ebensburg at 10 o'clock to-
night say that the heaviest rain since 1889
is falling there, and the streets are under
water Bridges across small streams are
swept away. The report says that the
farm crops are waSned out and every
thing is big loss. The ran at Ebans-
burg still continues and the river here is
streams in the north empty into it, The
widening OF the river beds here is the
only thing which prevented a heavy
financial If not an extensive loss of life
The water was higher last night than az
any time since the big food. During tie
were submerged and the trains were much
delayed. Street cars were s.oppel last
night. At the historic stone bridge the
water thirteen feet nine inches high
and in the Stony creek it was twelve feet
Throughout this county and Somerset the
damage to bridges and crops is reported to
be very heavy. Thomas McFeaters n lad
thirteen years old, wss drowned in the
Conemaugh river to-day while trying to
ride on log
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
Big Rooms UrOken.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, May 21, 2:30 a m.
1t continues to rain and the river is rising
steadily. The big log boom broke. but did
no injury to the three bridges below the
city in its passage downward, but it is
asserted that only a comparatively small
part of it has passed these structures.
There were 175, 600 feet of logs In the
boom.
The boom at Lockhaven has broken and
100000 feet of logs have been lost The
Upper Linden boom also broke. 1t con-
tained 100000 feet of logs and they have
gone down.
The river has overfiowed its banks in the
central part of the city and the water is
rushing up Market street and out to Third
and Fourth streets in the business part of
the city, where the cellars are now full of
water. The present height OF the flood is
twenty four feet. and IL is estimated that it
will reach twenty-seven feet from the pres
ent rainfall. But the rain shows no
signs of abatement il is feared that to-
morrow may bring more elements of dam
ger. Liconing creek, which brings more
water from the north, has been in good
condition all day. but at this time it is
bankfull and coming up rapidly. 1t comes
in at the upper end of the city. and was the
chief source of danger in 1889. The height
OF the river then turned ii out of its course
and emptied il in from north of the city,
and it is feared that there may be a repeti-
ton of that disaster
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
And Has Written Letter Declining to
Make the Race Again in the Demo-
cratic Gibraltar of Indiana.
$4,000 DAMAGES DEMANDED
Chicago & Erie Road Sued for the
Train Stolen at Hammond.
Tables Turned on DePauw Students
Who Attempted to Capture the Sem
tries of the Military Company.
pecial to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, May 2O.-Never be-
fore in the history of Indiana politics has
the Democracy of the Twelfth congression-
al district been so discouraged over the
outlook as now. This district has long been
known as the Gibraltar OF theparty, its
normal Democratic plurality being between
1900 and 1900. In 1880 Charles \. o. Nc
Clellan carried it by 1850. and in 1892 VIII
liam +. McNagny, the present Representa-
tive, was elected by 1904 plurality. In the
face of these figures an outsider might be
justified in saying that the district is hope
lessly Democratic, but such is Tot the
case. Since the last election there has been
a wonderful change in the political senu-
ment, especially in Allen county, where
are many industries that have been affect
ed by tariff agitation and the prospect Of
partial free trade. Though Fort Wayne is
$ prosperous as her sister cities. there are
many men out Of employment, and nearly
all ascribe their lack of work TO the action
or nonaction Of the Democratic Congress.
The success of the Republicans at the re-
cent city election was partly due TO this
feeling among the mass OF voters. In fact.
the dissatisfaction has reached such
stage and is so widespread that the lead
ers have become alarmed. Before Postmas-
ter Rockhill left for Washington, last
week. he went over the situation thorough
ly with the local Democratic managers,
and IL was decided that the party had no
cnance of carrying the district next fall.
Representative McNagny was informed OF
the condition OF affairs, and he at once
wrote a letter stating that he would not
make the race for Congress again II was
about to be made public when the Dem
ocratS begged that IL be withheld for fear
IL would demoralize the party in other
districts, as we'll as the Twelfth. This In
formation is reliable and is vouched for by
of the letter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
C. w. HARRIS INSANE.
Father of Helen Potts's Murderer Taken
to the Hospital at Ogdensburg.

SYRACUSE, ". Y. May 20.-Charles w.
Harris. the father of Carlyle w. Harris.
who was put 10 death at Sing Sing by cleo
tricity on May of last year for the muir
der OF Helen Potts. has been taken to the
State hospital, in Ogdensburg, insane. Mr..
Harris. who was an expert accountant,
came to this city to live more than a year
before his son met his fate at Sing Sing.
His health had been bad. and it was said
he thought the air here might prove bene-
fetal His health did improve for time.
but. though the fate OF his son is said TO
have been in no way accountable for his
mental trouble, il was noticeable among his
friends that his mind began 10 fail soon
afterWard- he was IN very feeble health
several months ago. Doctors Head and Bah
cock were called in to attend him recently
and they adjudged him insane. County
Judge NOrthrup signed the certificate and
ne was taken 10 Ogdensburg very quietly
last Saturday. He was perfectly willing
20 go
His insanity is Of a mild type Mr.. Har-
ris was a great student. his special studies
being metaphysical subjects. in which he
Is said 10 have been we'll versed. He always
regarded the death OF his son as a judicial
murder and said Carlyle was the victim
OF popular prejudice and circumstances. His
wife and family live in "A New England
State. Relatives say Mr.. Harris lost his rea-
son from illness and worry over his work
not as a result OF his sons execution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
FASTENED TO EARTH.
A Girl steps on Live Wire and 1t
Takes Four Men TO Move Her.

MT. VERNON, n. Y, May 2o.-Miss Ad-
die Acker, seventeen years old. and her sis
ter Lille left their home just before the
storm yesterday TO do an errand for their
mother. While on their way TO the busi-
mes portion of the city of the girls
exclaimed: "Oh, 1 believe something has
hit me-" Apparently she had received
slight electric shock. The girls laughed
over the incident and passed along. On
their return home. as they approached the
same spot. they noticed, on closer inspec-
tion an electric wire hanging from a tree.
They moved by cautiously, keeping their
eyes on the hanging wire. Suddenly Addie
uttered a scream and became fixed to the
spot. Her sister Lille tried to pull her
away, but could not move her. Lille called
loudly for help, and four men ran up and
pulled Addie away. Addie was completely
Frustrated, and had to be carried home. A
physician was called, but could do nothing
to relieve her suffering. She could not
stand up, neither could she use her arms.
1t is suppose the wire extended along the
ground. and that she stepped ON it without
rercaVinR III.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
AGREED TO PRAY Low.
Gotham Colored Ministers Arrested for
Creating Too Much Noise.

NEW YORK, May 20.-Mrs. Elizabeth r.
Moore and Mrs Caroline Jones appeared in
the jefferson Market Court yesterday,
against the Rev. B. J. X, Butler, pastor of
the Mount Zion Colored Baptist Church.
which holds services on the second floor
of a building at the corner of Thirty-fourth
street and Seventh avenue. The complain
ants keep boarding houses just back of the
meeting house. and they told Justice Ryan
that the midnight and sunrise services
there were driving all their boarders away.
Then Rev. Mr.. Butler. who is a portly,
good-natured man, tried his best TO concl-
late the two women. your Honor" he
said, Il stand here on my constitutional
rights. and can worship God under my own
vine and fig tree. i am now under the SUI
pervision of the Board of Health. and have
a policeman stationed at my church most
of the time"
That's right" said one of the complain
ants; there ought to be one there all the
time"
My dear sister," began Mr.. Butler
Don't YOU dear sister me- was the
sharp retort. You leave your back windows
open and you pray and sing until midnight
and all my boarders are leaving"
Cant you pray low, brother ButlerY'
Justice Ryan asked. THE Lord will hear
you just the same"
After some discussion Mr.. Butler con-
sented TO keep the back windows shut and
pray low. The complaint was then dis
missed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
WORST ON RECORD.
Flood Damages at BradfOrd-SkffS
Used I'm the Streets.

BRADFORD, Pa, May 20.-The worst
flood in Bradford's history is rushing
through Tuna valley to-day. Twenty
streets contiguous to the creek are inun-
dated and hundreds of families are in the
swim. The east and west branches of
Tuna are both transformed into good-sized
rivers Below Foreman street, at the con-
huence of the two streams, the flood is a
quarter of a mile wide and is high enough
to ruin all the carpets in the houses on
Hilton and other streets in the lower part
of the Sixth ward. The Douglass dam is
partly torn away. Weaver's ice house
Is in ruins The North-street bridge is
gone and several railroad and street
bridges are in danger. The railroad people
are holding down their bridges with heavi-
ly loaded cars. In the Sixth ward twenty
families were taken out OF their homes in
boats during the night. and on Clarence
River and Hilton streets rescue corps
with s,xiffs saved as many more. Luckily
there no fatalities. three-months-
old baby fell into the east branch this
afternoon and was being swept away In
into the creek and after a desperate strug-
gle saved the child.
The flood from the east branch covers
the territory over which run the Erie Rail-
way Companys tracks the Western New
York & Pennsylvania tracks and those
of the Bradford, Bordwell & Kinua rail-
way. Webster street is navisab.e by boat.
Across Corridor TO Newell avenue TO
Main street and then down Davis street
there is a rushing body of deep water and
skiffs ply from the Riddle House up and
down the streets. At the Henderson
House, on the ground floor there is six
inches OF water. Twenty business houses
on Main street, between Webster and the
Erie railway, are in a still worse condi-
ton The fire alarm bell was sounded this
morning at o'clock. and the firemen were
called out to help people from their homes.
They did excellent work. A carload OF
lime in a storehouse near the track about
Elm street became water soaked and fred
the building while undergoing the stacking
process and in the flood to their waists
the firemen had further work to do. The
rain to-day and last night fell as IL from
a cloud burst, but this evening IL has
abatei somewhat. and it is believed that
the worst is over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
RAILWAYS SUFFER.
The PennsyIvania's Tracks Flooded
and Washed Out at Several Points.

PHILADELPHIA, May 2O.-Dispatches to
Pennsylvania railroad officials report that
1t has been raining for several days; that
the water of the Susquehanna is still rising,
and that a conservative estimate places the
probable total rise at from twenty-five to
thirty feet. At Remove the water has risen
this afternoon TO twenty-three feet above
low water line. at Driftwood ten feet and
at Keating sixteen feet. AT the latter point
the river is rising a foot an hour. AT Drift
wood the stream is within two feet of the
lower part of the railroad bridge. At West
port the sides have been removed from the
western end of the railroad bridge and the
water is flowing freely through it, At Sim
namahoning the stream is within eight or
nine feet of the bridges. Communication
with Carthous has been cut off since 1l:30
this morning. Part of Lockhaven is under
water and the flood there is very high. and
between Bellefonte and Rising Springs two
spans OF one of the railroad bridges have
been carried away. In this district ii has
been raining since yesterday. There is a
seven-foot flood in Lycoming creek. and at
Rising Springs the water is eighteen inches
higher than IL in 1889. At Bixlers and
Vineyard a number OF county bridges have
been carried away. AT Tipton the railroad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
PRINCESS FLOUR
Best made. Ask your Grocer
GUNBOATS CUT In TWO.
They Are to Be Lengthened Fourteen
Feet Each to Give Them Stability.

NEW YORK, May 20.-The new but top
heavy gunboats Castine and Machias are
being cut in two and heightened in the
timber dry dock at the navy yard in Brook
lyn. The success which attended the sepa-
ration Of the sections of the hull of the
Castine will, il is believed. be repeated
when the Machias will undergo the opera
ton. The Castine was the first ship to be
cut in two in the navy since the little
steam gunboat John Hancock was subjected
to that treatment forty years ago.
The Castine and the Machias, which are
to be lengthened fourteen feet each, were
taken the dry dock last week. The
work Of cutting away the plates, drawing
the rivets and bolts and saving the wood
work on the Castine was done in twenty
two and half working hours The cut
was made eight feet abaft the mdship
line. Then wedges were driven beneath her
keel forward, the weight was lifted and the
steel plates gave way. Then, with hy-
draulic cranes and tackles, the forward
part of the vessel was pulled fourteen feet
away from the stern. The engines remain
in the after part and the boilers in the for
ward part. There are seven frames and
eighteen additional plates to be built upon
the center of each vessel. This extension
Will give each vessel an additional coal
bunker and Will increase her steaming ca
pacity from twelve days TO twenty-one.
The Castine and Machias were built by
the Bath iron works, at Bath, Me. Each
Is ninety feet between perpendiculars and
thirty-two feet wide. The length of each
will now be increased to 1O4 feet. Their
displacement, which is now 1000 tons each.
will be increased by the alteration TO about
1.125 tons. The. full complement of the
crew of each is 1870 men. The batteries con-
sist of seven four-inch guns and six six
FOUNDERS. The MachiaS went into commits
sion about year ago The Castine was
never in commission. On the official trial
of the MachiaS last summer her defects
were so manifest that they were afterward
the subject of a special report, which was
made TO Secretary Herbert by the Navy
Board of Inspection of which Rear Admiral
Walker was the head. 1t was found that
the new gunboat was a very tender craft.
She was lacking in stability. There was,
constructor Fernald said, either too much
top weight or too much water line. Various
plans for remedying these defects were
suggested and finally the one now i'm
process was decided upon Both the gum
boats will be ready to be taken out of the
dry dock on July 1. and month later they
will be ready to go into commission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
STUDENTS COME TO GRIEF.
DePauw Boys Thwarted I'm Their At
tempt to Raid n Camp.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, May 20.-The most
extensively planned college prank and the
one that has met WITH the greatest disaster
to its perpetrators was partially carried
out here between midnight and daylight
this morning. The military department Of
DePauw University is in camp at Fern, six
miles west of the city, and their lot has not
been happy one on account Of the unsea-
sonable weather. The boys who remained
at home arranged with the Big Four rail-
road, last night, 10 stop their fast trains
at Fern Station. and party Of thirty stu
dents went down TO camp to capture the
sentries on picket duty. Their plans We're
carefully guarded, but leaked out, however,
and during their preparation a messenger,
mounted on fleet steed, was dispatched
from this city by the soldiers friends, ap-
prising them of the coming raid. The MIL
itary boys then quietly went 10 work 10
lay counter trap for their visitors, which
succeeded admirably. The midnight west
bound train discharged thirty heavily
armed. desperate-looking raiders at the
Fern station. UnSuspectingly, the fellows
slipped up 10 the military camp 10 take in
and disarm the sentries before raiding the
tents. The marauders were in turn sur
priseG, and were suddenly surrounded by
the camp soldiers. who. after a desperate
fight and chase, captured six or the would
be raiders. The others were chased over
the hills and hollows, most OF them miss
ing the return fast train. which picked up
some of the defeated party at 2 o'clock a.
m. Stragglers have been arriving on foot.
in wagons and on horseback all morning.
thoroughly drenched and disgusted with the
failure of the night raid. The attack, re-
pulse and capture is the talk OF the city
placed in pit in camp, dug especially by
the soldiers for their reception.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
REFUSED TO BUY UNIFORMS.
Employees of Brooklyn Street Railways
Fail to Appear in Summer Suits.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, May 2o-By reason
of the failure of the conductors and motor
men of the Atlantic-avenue railroad to ar
ray themselves in nevS summer uniforms,
to-day, the entire system, covering eleven
miles, is tied up, and nearly one thousand
men are temporarily, at least, out of en-
ployment. Only two hundred of the
had complied with the order and only
those reported for duty. But few cars
were running during the day, and tonight
traffic was stopped altogether. A commit
tee from the men waited upon President
Norton this afternoon. They were told by
that official that he would give them until
o'clock tomorrow morning 10 comply
with the companys orders and report for
work. The men declare that, while they
will report, they will not purchase new
uniforms The property of the company is
under police protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
At Jersey shore.

JERSEY SHORE, Pa, May 20.-The wind
and rain are causing grave trouble through
out this entire section. 1t has rained heavi-
ly almost increasingly since last Wednesday.
Tonight there is a twenty-six-foot flood in
the west branch of the Susquehanna river,
and il is expected TO reach a height only
second to the great food Of June. 1889, and
may even exceed that, as at this hour the
river is rising at the rate of .one foot an
hour. The water is now standing on Main
street in this city. At Pnillipsburg the
water is already higher than il was in the
food of June. 1889. At Clearfield the Beech
Creek railroad is under water, which is
higher than II has been for many years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
THE STOLEN lands TRAIN.
Mr.. TOwIe Sues the Chicago & Erie
Road for SJO.OoO Damages.

CHICAGO, May 20-Stealing a railroad
train and the injury of a congressional as
pirant in Indiana are the allegations in
Circuit Court proceedings against the Chi
cago Erie Railroad Company for $4,000
damages by Marcus Nj. Towle. ex-Mayor
and ex-postmaster of Hammond, Ind. a
Republican politician Of some prominence.
Towle is not the candidate who claims in
jury at the hands of the railroad. Being
a sponsor for the aspirant, however, he
asks reparation. The cause OF action took
place in the Tenth congressional district
of Indiana. Lake county held it's conven-
ton to select delegates for the congress
sional convention May 10 at Crown Point
Two factions in the Lake county Repub-
lican ranks were headed by rival aspirants,
Messrs. Johnston and Lands. Mr.. Lands
claimed a majority of the delegation. The
morning of May 10 each faction gathered at
the Hammond depot of the Chicago & Erie
railroad. which was the only way to reach
Crown Point, eighteen miles distant Each
party had previously chartered a train. Ex-
Mayor Towle, the plaintiff, who is a Lam
and four coaches. He was to foot the bills
out of his own pocket. The Johnston fac
special. With banners waving and en-
thusiasm rampant it pulled out for the con-
sight, and after waiting half an hour at
the station the Lands supporters were
told that their rivals had carried away all
the cars. There was no way of reaching
the convention that night so the Lands
faction stayed at home, meeting defeat by
the selection of delegates in favor of candi
date Johnston. IL is claimed by the friends
of Landis that he would have had a walk
over for the nomination had not his sup
porters been tricked out OF attending the
convention. They also say that Lake coun-
tvs man is sure Of election TO represent
the Tenth district. Ex-Mayor Towle thinks
that for this personal and party defeat he
is entitled to $4,000 In damages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
LIKE A VAST LAKE.
East Olean Covered with Water, and
the River still Rising.

the River still Rising.
0LEAN, n. Y, May 20.-Frcm present in
dications Olean is going to have a duplicate
of the great flood of five years ago. The
water in Olean creek is as high already as
IL was then, and the river is within about
four feet Of high water mark and rising
at the rate of seven inches an hour. Peo-
pie along lower Barry street began to
move out at noon, and all the lower streets
have since followed, and the houses are
nearly all desterted in that portion OF the
city. But few inches more will be re-
quired 10 shut off the pump station. as all
the buildings in that locality are submerged
already East Olean looks like a vast lake.
No teams have been able to pass along the
Boardmanville road from East Olean since
early this afternoon, and at o'clock ID. m.
the last passed on the Portville road The
tracks OF the Bolivar route are under water
for five miles. The Allegheny river also
runs along there and millions of feet of
logs are held in booms al the different
mills. The electric street-railway COM
pany have abandoned all the cars on their
different lines. The Erie has abandoned all
trains on the Western division, well as
all trains on the Western New York &
Pennsylvania.
AT Portsyile the streets are submerged
and people are being driven from their
houses. More than this, they have been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
TIMBERS IN THE FROGS.
Illinois Central Passenger Train
Wrecked by Miscreants.

EFFINGHAM, Ill.,. May 2o.-Passenger
train No. "a. on the Illinois Central. was
wrecked at Watson, five miles south of
this city. Heavy timbers were wedged into
the frogs of the switch at the south end.
and a freight train had headed in on the
switch TO let No. "a by. When the locomo-
tive of the passenger train reached the
obstruction ii left the track and ran against
the freight locomotive. The collision over
turned the passenger engine, smashed the
mail car and derailed three express cars
Fireman Charles Walters, of the freight
engine was painfully injured, and George
Baker, of the passciger engine, was also
int