The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01
SCENES AT SENECA.
They Are Perfect Pictures of Desc
IafiOn.


KANSAS CITY, May Sl.-A special to
the journal from Seneca, No., says: The
scene in and about the district of Seneca
as SHOWN by brief dispatches sent out
yesterday present a picture of desolation.
Cherokee avenue is divided in two sec
Luis Luis Dy the loss of the splendid iron
pfiuSe Which spanned Lost Creek Hun
areds of citizens are viewing the ruins,
WHtie the searching parties are constant
~ beating both sides of the stream in
Seafeh OF missing citizens who were evil
ueHllS drowned. OF the eighteen thought
70 De drowned fourteen have been taken
from the water.
me streets today presented a
SCENE OF DARKEST GLOOM.
Searchers are returning with the bodies
ana coIilns, hurrying here and there to re-
celFe the dead. The funeral expenses will
oe oorne by charity as well as the i'm
mediate wants of the living Any aid
contributed TO Seneca in her dark hour
OF MISTRESS, addressed to Mayor James
McGannon, will be most thankfully re-
cel!'ed and properly expended. The storm
~nlcn Prectpitated the awful flood from
which Seneca has so severely suffered
spent It's Iury at a point about ten or
n1teen miles east of here. The
WATER CAME DOWN
in a mighty wave, precipitating a rise
or Lost Creek fully five feet higher than
any recent high water mark on this
stream.
Every merchant on Cherokee avenue,
which embraces fully nine-tenths of the
business in the town, has suffered more
or less direct loss to stock. The losses
ana damage to stock alone is fully $50, 600,
While the total loss, including the mum
dated residences and loss of buildings,
brings the total above $4,000, at a very
conservative estimate
Among the heaviest property losses by
the flood are: Seneca Dispatch, equip
lnanf Nf~S Ia
Frantz, dry goods and millinery building
wrecked ana stock damaged, 5000; L. b.
Campbell & Co, dry goods, stock dam
aged, S. 600; Huler Milling Co. So 600; p
G. Browning q Co., lumber Dealers lum-
Der swept away, g 900. A score OF other
merchants and business men sustained
losses ranging from s1.5G0 TO 5000.
NO ACCURATE CONCEPTION
of loss to residents can be given, but
probably 100 homes were inundated with
four TO six feet of water, raising losses
from S23O,000 to $500 900. Two of these, the
homes OF Messrs. Andreas and Schmidt,
were carried down the stream and every
member OF the families drowned A num-
Der OF families have
LOST ALL AND ARE DESTITUTE.
Many farmers along the course of Lost
Creek lost their crops. The merchants
themselves having met with serious losses
are in no condition to respond TO the
wants of the destitute. and unless some
aid is received from outside, the suffer-
ing viii Increase. An appeal for aid was
issued today by Mayor McGannon, in
the form OF a telegram to the mayor of
Kansas City. The message states that
any aid given WI be acceptable
The bridge at Dayton, station on the
Frisco railway seven miles east of here,
and a considerable stretch of track and
grade, was washed out and trains will
probably be suspended except for trans
ferring traffic around the bridge for some
days to come, and no mail has been re-
celVed at this place since the flood.