The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-30
SCENE OF DESOLATION
Further News of the Flood at
Guthrie, o. 7.
MANY PERSONS ARE STILL MISSING

Daylight Finds Dozens of People stili
CIinging To Trees and Overturned Houses q
Where They Had Passed a Night OF Ter t,
ror-Not Believed That the Death Lis' {
VIII Exceed Twenty Hun
dred Houses swept Away.
Guthrie, O. r, April SO.-Daylight In
the Cottonwood valley found dozens Oh
people still clinging to trees, overturned
houses or timbers in positions Which
they had sustained all during the weary
night. Here and there positions known
70 have been occupied when darkness
came on were empty in the morning
and the only conclusion to be drawn
was that the luckless victims had
dropped into the river during the nigh''
drowned and that their bodies had peeh
swept down the stream. For miles along
the scene of devastation 1000 people,
homeless, half i'll from exposure anu
hunger, passed miserable night Dul
ing the night the water had receueu
rapidly and the work or rescue was
more easy in the morning
Rescue Parties start Out.
r When darkness stopped further rescue
Wednesday evening every aVailapie
: man went busily to work to construct
: rafts for use the next day ana Wheh tie
, first light of day broke small parties
: started out from different points anu
s began transporting the people troh 'hell
d neTilous positions to land. The water
: was not so high nor swift as wednesday
=. and the rescuers made rapid progress
n No more reliable estimate of the dead
4, nor of the property damage than was
l. given Wednesday night could he com
m oilad Thursday morning. Hourly bodies
Il. left ON land by the receding waters OF
r. found nocketed in houses or piles OF ue-
H. hrie came to light This within rev
l. miles of Guthrie. What the danlas'
p. "a life and property further out III 'h'
ct country was will be known only Whei
L wire and railway train communicate
now at a standstill, is resumed
IN Scene of Desolation
The scene of the food districts Is OH
he of desolation. The rivers ran uo"n iap az
idly all night and when the sun io'e -
ID av,ful extent of the damage TO pIoP'i'
r. la ha saen The river is still ban
a f,I but the water has receded lro'
,,1oet of the inundated districts. All u
80. morning missing people have peeil luui
80 clinrine to bushes or drlitWoou u'"
- tho stream on the west blu1' OF 81"
~ tered in farmhouses for miles SO II
a. talieved now that the death list VIII u
~ axceed twenty-five, most OF thenl "eI
tboee seen TO drown i'm the mann Oii"
son' 80, during the first rush of water al
the bodies were carried away he vi
uii- hodies found Thursday morning a
he,' thosa of Mrs. Fannie Rufin ana u
children. all lodged in pie ol ui'
wood These. with George oNe"'
un t,,,tcber drowned while rescuinG u
orc. Frank Myers. Miss Ella Dui
nber Mrs. JANE We, ntrs Dennis and chi
fer Mrs. Drui'i,r,on1 49,, ara the only 'ol
the ana Mis' - -, drovned thou
John known 10 ITO sti,l missing.
nber hlty or nv ,,s.s Destroyrd.
eo v,,,a hundred homes were swept aN
and the contents were ruiheu' oi,s III,
On. a,ad and fifty houses were Wre.n
-, streets devastated ana run
'sy Is 100 ,aonle are homeless. ana nan
-, more are destitute. frop'
erian aan,aqe exceeds 100000. system
hurs- 80 a. NOW carried on and ferries
CON- s,.i,,o across the river so that
ented niles can be sent 10 an ,,.,1 a"e 20,
, N -. hrought to the unharmed par
=, a.. ,o he cared for in PR
I'd the homes 1t Is now certai', ' 90.
,nt ooused bv a cloudburst wv
thav Va We" 49,, tho valley. and everything
- a,s -. hafore H. Had ii come TWO IL
40 he s,,a, GOO would have perished'
a that GO. ,oa,binp the city until O'Clock
Tatson ..a,,ar,I alarm preceding, enapi
,ments large part TO escape w w" refio
5 doc I'D those caught to secure reius
NyeVer traes and on ROOFS.