The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-28
FL PASO FLOODED.
Several Hundred Families Made
Homeless by the Rio Grande.
POLICEMEN HURT il A COLLISION.
An Electric Car Runs into the Patrol
Wagon 10 which They Were Riding
sixteen Fishermen Missing
Explosion &C Nin.

Ell PAso, Tex, May 26.-At one
o'clock yesterday morning the FIRE
alarm sounded to arouse the people in
the lower part of the city and notify
them that the levee had broken and
chat the food waters of the Rio Grsnde
were rushing like mad spirits through
The city. The levee which broke was
on the bank Of the canal on stanton
street The river mad reached its high
est point since 1891. In afew minutes
a large force Of men was at work, try
ing to check the angry waters with
sacks flied with sand, but a second
break above backed up the water on
the workmen and they had 70
retire. The Texas & Pacific rail-
way, realizing that hundreds Of
families were being flooded from
their homes, backed in a large num-
Der Of empty freight cars for the ae-
eommodation of the homeless. Not
less than 100 homes were swept away
and last night several men were at
work on a new levee. They threw up
an embanlzment on Third street to try
and check the advance of the water,
which is running over one OF the Inc
ternational street railway bridges.
The splash of walls Of houses as they
fall is mingled with the cries Of at-
frighted women and children who are
driven from their homes People re-
siding in the lower part Of the1ity are
leaving their homes and moving to the
foothills of Mount Franklin. Several
hundred families are now housed in
freight cars standing in the sea OF
water. The ringing of the fire bell
saved the lives of many people who
were asleep. ignorant of their danger,
POLICEMEN HURT IN A COLLISION.
CHICAGO, May 26.-Four police Off
GERS and one patrol wagon driver con-
nected with the Fiftieth street station
were seriously injured last night in a
collision between the patrol wagon
and an electric car. The collision Oc-
cured at Fiftieth street and Indiana
avenue, and at the time the driver Of
the patrol wagon was urging his
horses on dead run in answer to an
alarm of fire from FOFty-Third street
and Calumet avenue, The wagon with
its occupants was thrown to the side
walk and demolished. The collision
was unavoidable and no blame is at
tached to either the men on the car or
the patrol wagon.
SIXTEEN FISHERMEN MISSING.
PBOvINCETowN, Mass, May 26.-Ot
the 10 men Of this town who sailed on
the schooner John E. johnson for the
fishing grounds on the west bank. 200
miles off the Nova Scotia coast three
men came back on the steamer when
she rounded the point yesterday morn
/ ing, with her flag at half mast The
other 16 are still adrift in their dories,
off the western coast, have found
watery graves, or, happily, have been
picked up by some passing steamer
EXPLOSION AT A MILL.
LoWELTowE, Me, May 26.-Cas-
wells mill was blown up yesterday.
-Four men were killed. and several in
iured. The mill is q total wreck and
/ the loss will be heavy. All the bodies
were horribly mutilated. One Of the
boilers was blown through the saw
mill roof. The other boiler was blown
100 feet into the mill yard and the mill
+ was badly wrecked.