Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-05-21

TURNED Ill anu DullU luen Il lOa
house and a subscription was mad,
up in town TO temporarily ale
viate their sufferings. Proceed
ing eastward the storm paid it
respects to DR.. Trott's house near tn,
Ironside place, and Others on the way
and struck General Smiths dwelling
which was destroyed. Mr.. Smith wa,
provided with a storm cellar and haC
gotten into it with his family, anC
was just shutting the door wheT
the crash came. The house and it:
contents were almost a total loss
The character of the storm was here
shown-that it was cyclone. \ bar
rel standing but a short distance from
the house, in an exposed situation
was not overturned, and the roof Of
a building was lifted up, turned
around and left partially upon the
structure to which it belonged.
INCIDENTS OF THE STORM.
Every run and ravine was converted
into an important stream.
1t has been great weather for set
ting potato and other plants.
\ train of cattle from southern Tex.
as stood at this station all day Satur-
Gay waiting for repairs of the track.
Rabbits in large numbers were driv-
en- to the higher ground in the bot
toms and then drowned or killed by
the dogs.
Mr.. Mars, Sr's stable was blown
out into the road and tlrned over.
Tom Prather's dwelling was blown
off its foundation.
The rain fail Friday night, as re-
ported by Prof. Amos, was and 55-l0o
inches. Many state it was the hard
est rain they ever saw.
The west end of viii Wards house
was struck by lightning early Satur'
day morning and severely damaged,
the end being torn out and the root
stripped.
Bop little. Tom Allen and Others
were out Saturday morning trying tC
rescue their hOgs-and succeeding in
part. Their endeavors furnished q
great deal of diversion for the on.
lockers.
Great numbers of a strange bird re,
sembling a gull made their appear
ance with the flood. Their wings
were Of a dove color, with black bod
les, and they were something the size
Of turtle dove.
L. p. Isbell left two milk cows in Z
pen on the bank of Bull creek on the
night of the storm and next morning
the water was six or eight feet deeI
at that point and the cows had floated
out and saved themselves.
There have been more old prairie
chickens this spring than for year:
and sportsmen have been living in
high hopes Of big crop Of young ones
1t is now feared the storm came al
about the right time TO drown the
young chicks.
Tom Allen found his renter afioai
in boat he had made from the grain
door of freight car and gotten the
nails by tearing an old box to pieces
The woman and child were taken out
in a boat and the man made his way
ashore in his scow.
The tier of stalls on the north side
at the fair grounds was blown ovel
the high board fence and scattered
promiscuously over Jim Titles farm
and strange to say they were the only
unoccupied stalls in the grounds.
The first duty of Saturday morning
was the rescue of the Lowell family
living down hy the Katy" bridge
Later in the day boat was built tC
bring Tom Brackets folks to dry land
but the waters did not raise to a point
which made it necessary, though a
few more inches would have driven
them out.
The small streams were all great
deal higher than they were in Decem.
Der and that was record breaker
The entire line OF Mrs. Browning
fence, near the mill, was washed away
for the first time and it has stood
ere a great many years. DR.. Fray
ser states that Cabin creek was nine
feet higher at his place than il was in
December.
Boss Bluejacket, Charley Newman
Bill Matney, Mack Bill;ngslea, Ton
Sheehan and Tom Monaghan went
out to Tom Brackets on Little Cab.
in, Friday night TO fish with a net
Next morning the boat was gone and
after trying for time to take up the
net they started with the team fol
town. The depth Of the water Soor
compelled them to turn back, though
Charley Newman came ON afoot and
Jared pretty well Ii was the idea OF
the Others to 20 up the creek and
make the high ground from John
DamerOn's. y rise of a foot or more
in a few minutes made this plan i'm