The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

south OF springfield. 1t had a population
of 61O. Twelve persons were drowned and
the financial loss will reach at least $50 900.
The dead are:
Rev. q. w. Duncan, Mrs. G.. W. Duncan,
Miss Matte Duncan, Mrs. Crawford,
daughter of G. w. Duncan; Miss Craw-
ford, Mrs. George Nevins, Norma Nevins,
Maggie Cannon, John Norris, Mrs. Nevins,
daughter of Lloyd Wright, and George
Nevins
The bodies of Rev. G. W. Duncan, his
wife, Matte Duncan, Mrs. Crawford,
George and Norma Nevins and the little
Wright girl were recovered before day
light ana the others were found before
noon. The bodies of Mrs. Crawford, Mag
gle Cannon and Mrs. Nevins were found
two miles below the town.
The hrst information of the disaster was
TINS afternoon when Mayor B. F. Evans
telegraphed to this city and other places
Tor clothing and other aid. The heavy
rain accompanied by wind of cyclonic ma
ture swept down on the town at 9 o'clock.
AT III o'clock there was an awful torrent
raging and the water was from four to
twelve feet deep in the streets half
an hour later, with the downpour un-
abated. Pike Greek, which runs through
the northwestern part of the town,
caught the debris and the struggling
people, carrying all away toward
Current River. The lightning was vivid,
and quick successive flashes showed
men, women and children struggling in
the torrent. They were clinging TO broken
timbers, and cries for help could be heard
above the roar and din. 1t was after mid
night before the storm had abated so that
people were in places of safety. They
stood in the water until daylight. After
the water had in a measure receded in the
early morning, and the bodies of the dead
had been recovered, the survivors scat
tered among the farmhouses or went to
neighboring towns.
The first reports of the food reached this
City shortly before noon. All wires had
been down since the night before and the
officials of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis road were in the dark as to the
cause of delay to their trains on Current
River branch beyond the intelligence that
heavy rains had made a washout on that
road. Shortly after o'clock this after
noon dispatch was received from Willow
Springs, where the branch leaves the main
road, stating that thesstorm had developed
into cloudburst near Winona Winona
is forty miles from Willow Springs How
the intelligence reached Willow Springs is
not known.
The dispatch says that seven bodies had
been recovered from the food, and that it |
was feared that the loss of life would reach |
fifteen. Superintendent limerick at once
made up a relief train, and with the two
company physicians and plenty of help
and a carload of provisions, left for the |
scene of the trouble. Winona is 100 miles |
from Springfield, and even though the |
train succeeds in getting through to the |
flooded district, it will probably be to-
morrow before the extent of the damage is
known.
BIRCH TREE, Mo-, July 6.-A cloud
burst occurred here at 10:30 o'clock last
right. Two houses were swept away EN-
tirely and seven torn from their founda-
tons. No lives were lost, though several
persons were injured. A carload of lime
in a warehouse was Stacked and fired the
building, which burned to the grouud.
Whole fields of grain were swept bare.
Reports come in that Thomasville, in Ore
gon County, was flooded and Eleven Point
IG1fSI W dS CdIIy Oedbn anu
along its path. 1t is impossible to reach
Winona, nine miles east of here. That
town lies low, and when the food struck
it the loss of life must have been heavy.
OTTAWA, KAN, July 6.-The water in
the Maris des Cignes river here is the
highest known in thirty years. Forest
Park is flooded, the water having reached
the platform of the tabernacle, submerg-
ing all the tenting grounds occupied at the
recent Chautauqua assembly. The race
track is covered and the food reaches to
the rear doors of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe shops. The getty water-works
pumps stood IN ten feet of water and were
shut down. The city fire engine was set to
pumping water into the mains at o'clock
last night and continued till this morning,
when the water-works pumps were started
again and are still working under water.
MARQUETTE, KANs., July 6. The
Smoky Hill at this place has oyerfowed
It's banks and on the south side extends
nearly back to the bluffs, two miles dis
5ant. The water is nearly to the second
story of the houses nearest the river, and
some people have been taken out in boats.
The approaches to the Missouri Pacific
bridge are washed away and the bridge it.
self is5nearly off the abutments. Nearly all
he wagon bridges across the river west of
lere have been washed away, and the
water is the highest ever known. Several
houses have been swept away.