Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1897-05-06
A GREAT FLOOD.
Many People Drowned in Okla
hOma Territory.
A CLOUD BURST
Destroys Lives and Property and
Spreads Ruin in all
Directions.
A CLOUD BURST

GUTHRIE, o. T. April % The heaV
est rain In years fell throughout tn
territory yesterday and last night th
continuous down pour keeping up 70
seven hours. All creeks are up to tn
danger point and some out OF thei
| banks. Southwest of Waterloo, thi
county, a water spout occurred and hal
dozsn farms were inundated. Nea
| Clifton, Lincoln county, SCORES OF farm
have bean swept OF everything anC
many horses were drowned. Near Oush-
ing, Payne county, dog ans of people
| have been driven from sheir homes bj
high water. Ia the western part o.
Logan county, several large bridges OF
| Cimarron end Cottonwood rivers have
been abandoned and trains in every
direction are delayed by washout. Al
FL Reno Tightening struck the Presby'
terien church epire and the new school
house, knocking children right and left
but killing none. No fatalities have
been reported from any point.
Total rainfall sinoe Saturday noon
amount lbs inches. It is still raining
hard.
ST. LOUIS, April pa dispatch from
Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, says: At
6 o'clock this morning mighty wave
swept down the Cotton wood valley an0
struck this city. Il deafening roar went
up as the water crushed houses and
drove psoole from their homes.
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and bridge was swept away. All of
West Guthris is submerged. Twenty
business houses have ten feet of water
in them. The river is twenty feet above
the ordinary level. Hundreds of peo-
pie are In trees but cannot ba helped.
Several men trying to swim the current
to reach four women and babe IN q
tree, were swept swey. A woman wed-
ing from her home with baby on her
head was carried away and lost. 1t is
believed mora than a score of negroes
we're drowned. Persons who escaped
the food estimate fully ffsy persons
drowned.
WICHITA, Kse., Apri! 2S.-A special
from Guthrie to the Beacon, say: At
10 O'Clock nine people we're seen to
drown, two women and a child were
carried away on n bridge, one man and
two women we're seen on honse-roof
when it went to pieces, and perished.
As there is no communication ID is eb-
impossible to get the names.
Scores are missing. Many buildings
ere stiIl going down. a girl in peach
sree for hours jush gave up and fell into
the water. Hundreds of men are build
ing boats at the lumber yards.
Gus Piatt and George Wells SWAN
the main currsnt, cut q fiatboat from
its moorings and saved seven people.
1t is believed many we're caught in bed
in small houses and drowned.
GUTHRIE, April 29.-Rumors of sp-
Dalliug loss of life by the flood are in
some placing the dead at
one 30 two hundred. There was no way
# getting at the real extent of tie
catastrophe.
WICHITA, K Ia, A pril 2S.-A special to |
he Beacon from Guthrie, reports that |
II q. m. not less than fifty persons
lad been drowned ia the food there |
)ns woman with babe on her head |
vas seen to go under.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 28.-At |
O.35 a. n. Cyclone sweeps between
Abilene and Salina destroying all cam
nunicatlon with Denver. The cyclone
) supposed to bs a continuation of the
sightful storm which caused the disas-
OF in Oklahoma.
GUTHRIE, o T, April 29.-Dsylight in
Cottonwood Valley found dozens of peo-
le still clinging TO trees, overturned
ouses OF timbers in positions which
hey had sustained during all the wesry
light. Here and there positions known
D have bsen occupied when darkness
anne Oh last night, we're empty this
forming, the luokless victims had
ropped into the river, drowned and
heir bodies swept down the stream.
or miles along the scene of devastation,
no thouseud people are homeless.
Iourly, bodies left on land by the re-
sding waters or found pooketed in
ouees or piles are being brought to
ght. This within few miles of Guth
e. What the damage to life and pro-
srty further out In the country was,
ill only be known when the wire and
ailWsy train Communications is re-
umsd.
GUTHRIE. o. II, April 3O.-Both the
ostonwood and OimsEron rivers are
ow within their banks. Searching
arties have gone out in boats and RATS
} coast both banks for sixty miles from
tuthrie, or farther, in search for dead
odies. Pillegers looted tho wFeckage
let night. No bodies we're found to-
ay.
WEYLER's LONG YARNS.