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CLOUDBURSIS
Another Terrible Storm
Near Denver.
THE DEAD NUMBER %
Morrison Is Indeed a Stricken City
and Families Are TerrOrized.
CAMPING PARTIES SWEPT

No Additional Loss OF Life Is Re-
ported to the List Of the Night
Previous-Ail of One Family Per-
lsh Except a Little Girl. Whose
Hair Catches In Driftwood and
Holds ner TIL Aid Arrives-No
Estimate of Financial Loss Is
ventured-Creat r loods In Penn
sylvania and Other Eastern
States - Immense Banks OF
Water.
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A ,iridgemAn Injured.
Special Dispatch TO the STANDARD.

Special Dispatch 70 the standard.
Helena. July 25-George W. Rabrs-
shaw. one OF a force OF men employed
In replacing the old Green Horn trestls
on the Northern Pacific. west OF this
city. With an iron structure. fell IS feet
to-day and broke his thigh and ribs.
He was brought 10 Helena on a special
While his injuries are very serious. he
will recover.
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NOISE ALL DAY LONG
At Times the Excitement BOrdered on
Actual Riot and Collision.
HIS TELEGRAM DlSREGARDED

Now the Wiseacres Don't Pretend
to Predict With Certainty What
the Outcome VIII Be : All Is
Problem atlcal as to the Future
Those Most Anxious for a
Union of the silver Forces Hope
to See One Of the Vice Presi-
dental Candidates Withdraw
Texas and Other kadical Dele
cations Hold "Rump" Conven-
ton "A Woman seconds the
Nomination Of the boy Orator"
Morton Of Chicago Receives
32i votes-Donnelly and Coxey
Nominated. But Withdraw Their
Names Stormy Scenes. Loud.
Bolsterous Talk and Some Ora
tory That Bears Marks of Elo-
quence.
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Cincinnati. July S.-Reports from West
Virginia. Kentucky and Ohio show al
he tributaries OF the Ohio river over
nowing. The damage to railroads ana
other property Is very great.
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James Casey. 10 years.
Edith Casey. years.
Mamie Casey. years
Anna Casey. S years.
Clara Casey, years.
Mrs. Anthony Heres.
Eugene Heres. ] years.
Mabel HERES 2 years.
Josephine Heres, 6 years.
Carroll HERES. years.
Thomas McGough. q years. OF Dayton,
Ohio. cousin OF Mrs. Casey.
Annie Hansen. 20 years. servant Of the
Proctors.
Fatally injured:
Child OF ]. C. Longnecker
Dead at Golden:
c. A. johnson.
Mrs. A. A. Johnson
Mrs. ]. F. Edwards.
All OF the Denver people who perfshed
were campers in Bear Creek canyon.
There were many more campers In that
vicinity. Some reports say when Bear
Creek canyon is fully explored Il will
be found that no less than so people per-
ished In the food. Great anxiety ls felt
by many families In this city. members
OF which were camping In the mountains.
The Proctors drowned were the wife
and children OF A. 5. Proctor. president
of the Denver Tent and Awning COM
pany. Mrs. Casey and Mrs. HERES were
widows. All members OF these three fami-
lies were drowned. IL Is believed. except
1O-year-old Irene Proctor. who was
caught In n mass OF driftwood and res,
cued with difficulty by Earl McGill and
]. T.. Lowe. The torrents which rushed
down the canyon upon Morrison and Col
den and other mountain towns were
sun snI hp fat In afa
which extended a hundred miles or more.
from Boulder. where the damage was
slight, all down the range west OF Denver
almost to Pueblo.
At Morrison and Golden the torrents
tore away buildings, uprooted trees
washed out long stretches OF railroad
tracks. swept away bridges and spread
annihllation through the towns. Their
work was as brief as the warnings they
gave were inadequate. and almost before
the citizens knew what had happened the
floods passed. leaving only deadly silence
and signs OF devastation everywhere. All
that could be done In the darkness and
confusion was done by rescuers. Men.
women and children were extricated from
dangerous predicaments. let down from
roofs of floating houses. helped out Of
trees and drawn out OF the very whirl
and death OF the torrents
II Is feared that many lives have been
lost at Central City and perhaps other
points In the mountains. There Is great
difficulty in obtaining accurate informa-
ton Of the extent OF devastation be-
cause OF the wires being torn down, rail-.
road tracks swept away and communica-
ton with Denver cut OF or interfered
with. The Gulf and South Park railroads
suffered most severely I'm loss OF track and
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FOUR WOMEN DROWNED.
The Bodies OF the Campers Were Rseov.
cred Yesterday MorninG.


cred Yesterday Morning.
Horace NJ. Warren Of the nrm q
Acheson q Warren. investment bankers
OF this city. was driving In Mount Yer.
non canyon. midway between Morrison
and Golden. last night, In company with
his wife. Miss Josephine Holme. daughter
OF Richard Holme. superintendent Of the
Denver Union Water company. and
Misses Della and Mary Hornsr. dAugh-
ters Of Judge J. w. Hornsr. when the
cloudburst occurred. The stream quickly
became q torrent There was No way 70
escape and the carriage with its ocsu-
pants was swept away BY the nood. Tue
four women were drowned. Mr.. Warrsn,
bruised and bleeding. lodged IN . tree
and was rescued several hours later. Hs
10 IN . critical condition. The party w9s
camping at Judge Hornsrs ranoA h
Mount Vernon gulch.
A telephone message from os1d0,
Col. says the bodies of four women
drowned In the flood last night wsfo
found this morning In Mouna Vernon can-
yon. near Morrison. and have been hsu.
tined a. those of Misses Della ana Mar
Horner, daughters Of Judge J. w. Hes.
ner: Miss Holms. daughter OF Richard
Holme. superintendent Of the Denver
Union Water company. and Miss warrsa.
all Of Denver. They had been saAphg
out.
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Fer 20 years We have been pleading
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For the People
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VS..
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One fact outweighs a hundred claims,
that's why we deal In facts. We be-
lieve In honesty. not in idle boasts nor
bold assertions that merely excite ones
credulity. We have won our way to
public favor by honest motives, honest
principles. honest dealings and by SELL
Ing the best jewelry that money can
buy.
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IN PENNSYLVANIA, TOO.
The Greatest 81 AL rieods In That Dss-
tion Strikes fittshurr.

tion strikes fittsburg.
Pittsburg. July S.-The greatest of aA
floods In the Monogehala valley. which
In sweeping down that stream, win cause
the rivers here to reach q stage of q
feet this evening. which win be sufieisns
TO flood the lower districts Of both catiaA
The general condition throughout he
Monongahela valley is critical The lower
end OF McKeesport " flooded and q foot
more water will reach many warehouses.
Drversburg 10 inundated with wateP
reaching the second story Of many
houses. The last rise was caused hY
cloudbursts and heavy rains at the head
of the Mononsahela. In many places
there were the heaviest rains known IN
Is years. The amount OF damage win
probably reach a million dollars The
gauge at noon showed zoos feet and ris-
ing at the rate Of six inches an hour.
The danger line In this city Is q feet. AZ
l o'clock p. m the water had commeneeA
TO creep into many cellars. The Ohio VAL
ley win experience the iood In its -
tire length.
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-14

ing dangers, and deadens the brain
with an oblivion that blots out the past
and makes us indifferent to the future.
Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne knew no
more.
The gray dawn gradually flushing
with a roster light came over the West
chester hills beyond the Hudson. A
gilvery mist curtained the waters of
the river, and the few white clouds in
the zenith, already catching the rays
of the rising sun, gave promise of a
beautiful day, when Mr.. Van Cortland
Browne regained Consciousness and
looked about him. His first impress
sion wns that he was at the bottom of
the Palisades and that every bone in
his body must have been broken. When
he had gained sufficientpresence Of mind
he began 10 take an inventory of his
anatomy. He moved and felt his arms,
and rejoiced TO find them unbroken,
though decidedly stiff. He investigated
mis- legs In the same way, and despair
gave place to hope in his heart when
he found them practically uninjured.
Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne rose and
looked about him. lie was on little
plateau just six feet below the point
To which the tree had been clinging the
day before. He could not have fallen
more than eighteen inches, so that his
Inconsistencies was due TO mental
shock rather than physical injury.
The plateau had an area of about ten
by twenty feet. and below this was g
sheer wall of three hundred feet drop
ping down TO the waters of the Hudson.
Although there was no Danger, Mr.. Van
Courtlnn6 Browne i'm his nervousness
drew awpy from the edge. .fIe was
about TO shout for help, when. TO his
surprise and horror. he discovered that
his voice had deserted him and that
what he intended for a cry for aid died
away in gurglc in his throat.
Again despair rose in the ascendency,
for he saw that il he could not raise his
voice. to indicate to searchcrs his where
abouts, that he must die in this horrible
place Of hunger and thirst.
The sun rose higher and higher, and
the ill-stnrred mans throat and lips
were so parched that he would have
given half his fortune for drink OF
water. Gradually he began to think
that he was not Of so much importance
TO the people of the upper world as he
had imagined, Cor though his voice was
gone his hearing was intensified, and.
strain his ears ~ he would. he detected
40 sound OF searhers or rescuers.
IL was high noon when a thrill of JOY
stirred his heart NJ hearing voices on the
elf above. The loudest Of these was
that cf Commodore Blakelcy Horton
smith, who shouted TO people, evidently
some distance away:
II have found his wheell My God, he
has fallen over the Palisndesl"
shrieks and cries Of agony came near
er and nearer. and he heard some one
saying:
take care OF Miss Van Cortland
browse. She has tainted"
The speechless man on the plateau. Ii
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thirst, the loss of his voice, the tortures
of the past night, and the dangers that
environed him; this was caused by hear
ing Col. Washington Johnson saying to
Mrs. Maj. Floyd-Floyd Jones in sooth-
ing accents:
"My dear Mrs. Jones, pray calm your
self. Death comes TO all sooner or later.
1t is the one thing we have 10 meet, and
we should be prepared for it--particu-
larly in the case of our friends"
go away; go away!" shrieked Mrs.
TloydFloyd Jones; 'you are heartless
monster!"
"But assure you, mean To be kind"
protested Col. Washington johnson.
"Oh, Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne was
SO grand, so noble, so everything that
was manly and good! i shall never he
myself a,ain This terrible calamity
will shadow my life till join him IN
the gravel" Then, ina voice indicative
of anger and impatience, Mrs. Jones
continued: "Why do you stand there,
Col. Johnson, with your hands in your
pockets? Why don't you make search !
Why do you not go down the cliffs and
find the remains?"
"Well, madam" replied the colonel,
gazing over the edge of the precipice,
''if were to go down the cliffs should
soon be a remains myself
The widows words brought an in
describable comfort to the heart of
the unhappy man on the plateau be-
low.
With the suddenness of its depar-
ture, his voice came back 20 him, and,
raising it to its loudest, he called out:
"My dear Mrs. Floyd-Floyd Jones!
am down here pretty badly wrecked,
but if you send Ysrc ropes to get me up 1
think can ride home with you on my
wheel"
Well, ropes were sent down TO Mr..
Van Cortland-Browne and the young
commodore descended the ropes hand
over hand and fastened them securely
about the man, who, within six months,
was TO become his father-in-law.
Strong arms on the top hauled away
at signal from the commodore, and.
when Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne reached
terra firma. he found the arms of two
WOfnti uDOuJ MN, anu with SIlcs VI uc-
light they were kissing his cheeks and
wetting them with their tears.
The commodore came up the ropes
hand over hand without assistance, and
Miss Florence, regarding him as her fa-
ther's deliverer, threatened to swoon
again in his arms.
II is n little more than a year since
Mr. Van Cortland BROWNIES adventures
and IL anyone thinks that this episode
has been in any way exaggerated he
can find that il has really been subdued
and toned down from the reality by
visiting Eagles Nest on the palisades
and hearing it from the bps of Mr.. and
Mrs. Van Cortland-Browna who daily
make visit on their wheels TO the scene
of what threatened to he an awful catas-
-ophe.
THE END
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only hope remained behind. AS the in
terminable hours of horror and dark
ness wore away, even hope ceased ia
give strength TO the doomed man. and
there came 10 his heart hopes black
shadow, despair, and he began 10 feel
that il was folly to prolong the effort
for life.
At length the mans physical torture
dominated his mental anguish, and In
his desperation TO be freed from pain,
he decided 10 change his position. In
stead of sitting astride the stunted
cedar tree. he determined 20 drop be-
meath it and cling TO it with his hands.
This would have been a delicate and
difficult undertaking even in the full
light OF day end with stronger tree
for support, but the obstacles were in
creased n thousand-fold by the dark
ness, by the slippery rocks down which
the water still poured, and by his own
physical weakness.
Driven 10 desperation and with bare
ly fragment of presence of mind left,
Mr.. Browne began to dismount, talk
ing care TO cling, as a drowning man
clings TO a spar, to the frail cedar tree.
Mr.. Browne succeeded in changing his
position, and he enjoyed few seconds
Of indescribable relief; but the weight
of his body on his arms, which were
not those of trained athlete, soon
brought an equally keen pain to his
hands and shoulders. He made up his
mind that the position astride the tree
was better, as a permanent thing, than
to cling suspended.
Even if Mr.. Browne had not been ex-
hausted by his efforts so far, he could
not have performed successfully the
turn-verein act of pulling himself up
to horizontal bar and sitting astride
the same, and this was practically what
he had now TO do. In his wild struggles
he drove his toes into the creyices, but
could gain no foothold.
lie heard the groaning of the roots
above him, and he felt the cedar bending
down under his weight and efforts. At
length there came n crash The cedar
tree had been torn from its moorings
i'm the crevice of the Palisades wall, and
the unfortunate man fell.
Nature may seem cruel at times, but
when she brings death she is ever kind
ly. She closes the eyes to surround
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falling rain, when 10 his indescribable
horror, the wheel like wild horse, re-
sisted his control and leaped over the
awful, red bank.
Had il not been that at that moment
the lightning flashed and the thunder
lrums of heaven echoed along the pal
sades, Mr.. Brpwne's agonized cry would
have been henrd by the villa residents
a quarter Of mile away.
The instinct of self-preservation led
he man to reach out his arms i'm the
effort to stop his downward flight; he
was so stunned that he could not think,
until he found himself astride n stnnted
cedar tree, whose groaning roots threat
ened TO give way every moment.
The rain increased and poured down
the wall of the palisades in torrents.
The darkness became absolutely sty-
gian. Away 10 the south he could see
the coppery glow of the city's lights on
the lowering clouds, and had he the
courage TO look down, he would have
seen the flashing lights of steamers,
whose signal whistles came like torture
TO his ears.
Hitherto the earth had been happy
and an easy place for Mr.. Van Cort-
land-Browne, but now that he found
himself face 10 face with horrible
death, he tried to pierce the black clouds
and to think of the great beyond.
He saw the rockets shooting into the
sky along the palisades, as soon as the
rain had ceased; and the horror of his
awful position was intensified by the
knowledge that not far away thousands
of happy people were enjoying the holi-
day, all unmindful of the danger and
the terrible anxiety to which a neigh
Dor was being subjected.
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fortunately, Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne
had taken on more adipose tissue in
the last few years than was consistent
with manly grace and physical activ-
ity. He consulted the family physician.
DIR. Thompson, about this, and DIR.
Thompson said:
'You don't want medicine. my dear
follow. Go and get yourself measured
for a bike. Practice at some school
here in the city till you = ready to
&c 20 the country. and my word for H..
a few months wheeling about Eagles
Nest will make You as strong as Sandow
and as healthy and graceful rs Apollo"
Mr.. Van Ccrtlnnd-llrownc took this
advice. Having but little else 10 do lur-
ing the months OF February. March and
April. he practiced with n persistency
that would have honored a nobler pur-
pose. and. urheeding headers and
bruises. he had become an expert. a.
least in his oven opinion. by the middle
ns Nav. when ne moved with Mifs Flor
sEce and the servants TO Eagles Nest.
There was only one thing that tend
Cd 10 detract from his seif-satisfaction
IN this accomplishment, and that was
dhrt Col. WasbinDion johnson sat a
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wheel quite as gracefully as himself,
and. having longer legs, sent it ahead
with more rapidity.
Mrs. Floyd-Floyd Jones was a most
accomplished bicyclist. and though she
delighted in setting rapid pace for
Mr. Van Cortland Browne, he was, on
su~A occasions, more then compensated
for the effort by her precious company.
AS matter of form, rather than be-
cause his interests required il, Mr.. Van
Cortland-Browne went into the city
every day, and returned home in time
for luncheon in the early afternoon.
1t was the Sd of July, and Mr.. Van
Cortland-Browne called his daughter
up on the telephone TO tell her not to
wait lunch, as he would not be homo
till three o'clock. IL had been rain
ing, and the wires along the Palisades
must bave been crossed; but, be that
as il NAV, Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne,
instead of hearing from Miss Florence,
recognized the musical voice of Mrs.
Maj. Floyd-Floyd Jones, demanding:
SIS that you, Col. Johnson?"
Before Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne
could reply, he heard the colonel say
ing:
"Yes, my dear Mrs. Jones, I want 70
talk with YOU"
"Oh, shall be delightedl" came the
widows exclamation over the wire.
Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne's face
grew purple, and he stood as If para
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lived with the receiver TO his ear, while
this conversation took place:
Col. Johnson--Are you aware, my dear
Mrs. Jones, that tomorrow Is the
Fourth of July?
sion of firecrackers has kept me aware
of that fact for a week.
Col Johnson--Have you nn engage
ment for about sunset tomorrow even
ing? tate
Mrs. Floyd-Floyd Jones (sweetly)-
h I'VE not.
Col. Johnson--Then will you meet me
on your wheel at the Lookout, and we
can come home by the palisade road?
Mrs. Floyd-Floyd Jones With pleas
ure.
Col. Johnson--Then its bargain?
Mrs. Floyd-Floyd Jones--Yes; good.
by.
Col. Johnson--Good-by.
Mr.. Van Cortland-Browne dropped
the receiver by the phone, and dropped
himself into n chair
lie reached home by three o'clock.
and, contrary 10 his custom, remained
in the house for the rest of the day.
nursing his wrath to keep il warm.
Miss Florence thought her father was
III, and sought by every means TO cheer
him up, but without effect.
During the next twenty-four hours,
Mr.. Van Cortland-Ilrowne did the most
persistent thinking of his life, the con-
clusion of which was that he would take
his wheel and surprise the perfdious
widow and hp hated gallant at the APP
pointed trysting place.
Unheedng the threatening storm,
Mr.. Browne mounted his wheel and
started up the road, which. at points,
runs dangerously close to the giddy
edge OF the towering palisades.
If the man could have forgotten him
self and his troubles, real or imagined,
he would have been struck with the
beauty and sublimity Of the scene, Of
which he was the center. Away TO the
west, in the direction Of the Hacken-
sack river and the Rnmapo mountains,
heavy. black storm clouds rolled to-
wards him. The glow from the upper
fiery crests was reflected down on for
est and field, till il seemed to glorify
the beautiful villas and the carefully
kept gardens by which they were sur
rounded.
A glance 10 the south would have re-
vealed the upper bay and the water
fronts Of the magnificent group of cities
by which IL is surrounded. To his right
the verdant hills Of Wcstchcster swept
down till they knelt by the waters OF
the Hudson.
Nonkers, Iryington and Tarrytown,
with the splendid clusters OF villas on
the heights above, looked more like
cities OF the mirage than centers of hu-
man habitation.
Mr.. Van Cortiand-Browne saw the
tiny row-boat ~ the fishermen, like
animated specks ON the broad breast "
the mighty river. lie saw Yachts and
other smiling craft. the sails glowing
like luminous opals in the storm light;
and he saw the befaPged excursion
steamers fastening southwark from
the picnic grounds up the river.
These things did not impress Mr.. Van
CoTtland-Brownc strongly for he had
seen them often before, but he was inn
| pressed 10y the fact that the lightning
was flashing overhead. that Il was grow.
ing rapidly dark. and fha, n few feet
away were the PERCEPTIONS cliffs of the
palisades. dropping In sheer descent
down 20 the waters edgc.
Mr.. Browne was on the point OF dis.
mounting from his wheel, and seeking
ths --o'sctiop of n trca from the now.
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p. P. p, Llppman's Great Remedy, Saves
Man From Becoming Cripple.

Mr.. Asa Anmons, a well KIN own
citizen of Jacksonville, Florida, was
afflicted by a terrible ulcer. Medical
skill seemed unavailing in stopping the
ravages of the terrible disease. The
leg was swollen and intensely painful,
as the ulcer had eaten its way down
to the very bone. All medicines and
treatments having failed to effect a
cure, the doctors said the leg must
come off. Just when it seemed that
Mr.. Ammons would become disabled
and crippled man, he tried j.. T. T.,
Lippman's Great Remedy, and the re-
suit was wonderful.