The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-29
sAose they had attempted to save had BEN

reRehe1.
Gas Piatt. business raanax-- ~ me
Guthrte Leader. and George WEl1sS a rney-
chant tailor. Swara the river az The risk
os their ETss and secured beat. hy whsch
a nuz1esr % per<0nS were saved.
A negro woman witA babe n her arms
desperately tried 20 steady hsrSssf IN a
tT@e-tcTs calling IRE while for h@3r. She
grew weaker and the baby slipped into
the water and was drowned She was
finally rescued, ard sata her family cg six
had suecurnbed
A woman. wa6lnE from borne with her
babe On her head was seen 80 20 under.
and man swimming the channel TO reach
four women and a baby in 4 tree wAs
carried Down stream.
Two women and child were carried
away On a bridge further down stream.
and one man and two women. n pain
SiEht o< shore, were an A house roof when
Il Went 10 pieces. They al perished-
An old negro woman was seen riding
honsetep. The building soon turned
over and she was drowned.
Three men. Waiter oidS. Van nnSen ard
Eugene Gil, sought 70 rescue an cid man
from a trse- Their raft struck an over
hanging tree and they barely saved ther-
selves BY clamhering into another tree.
They were finally rescued on a rope sent
20 them BY means ok a shotgun and cord
Two men secared small ssern-wa aeeI
pleasure hoat and started 70 the rescue
OF half dozen men and women lodged in
tree. The persons were rescued amid
the cheers OF the spectators. The cable
holding the craft finally broke and il was
carried down stream. but ultimately land
cd safely.
Adjt Gen. jameson. of the territorial
militia. narrowly escaped with his fam
iiy. lie was forced - wade and lead his
horse with his family in a buggy.
John Metz. aged s.. was capsixed while
trying TO save a woman. who sank before
he reached her. Metz himself was barely
rescued.
George Owens. attorney. league Ray
and Dick Pearson were pTecipftated into
the water while trying 20 save some peo-
PIE. and Owens was drowned
The wife and five children Of Wesley
McGill. eolored. were drowned in their
home.
Gus Piatt and George willis swan
through the main channel cut a boat
from its moorinEs, saving seven people
and making landing miles below the
city.
Tonight forty or fifty peopl. could ne
seen clingtns 20 trees and roofs Of build
ings. but could not be reached. and viii
have TO spend the night where they are.
The strength OF many may fail before
morning. II IL does. nothing but watery
grave awaits them.
The fate Of many others. who are known
20 have been carried down stream. will
not be known until daybreak and per-
haps not then.
IL is impossible 70 get any definite news
from the hundreds of rescued people on
the bluffs west OF the city. and those who
escaped are rushing frantically about in
search Of missing ones. The river Is go-
ing down rapidly tonight.
II is impossible to even approximat teYy
estimate the loss OF life.
When darkness settled over the city to-
night the wiideSs stories we're afloat. Many
were claiming that all OF Atty lives had
been lost. and not infrequently men were
heard claiming that fully 90 had perished.
Those wilder estimates are unQuestionahly
exaggerated. but the exaggeration is not
10 be wondered al II the frightfGi Incidents
Of the disaster are but considered. Lives
were lost in the food in every direction
in plain view OF the few who were heroic
ally carrying on the work OF rescue. and
OF the many who stood helpless at the
edge OF the raging waters. Men. women
and children struggled in the torrent side
by side with horses cattle and swine. one
perishing here, another there. and in other
places several disappearing together be-
meath the flood.
1t is believed that loss OF life has also
tcnwood river. Many farm houses in that
district ara reported 10 have been swept
away. Seven miles south Of here. at Sew
ard. Hunt store and postoffice were
swept away.
Four thousand dollars was raised in
Guthrie this afternoon for the relief OF the
sufferers.
The Dead.
At dark tonight but two bodies had been
recovered. those Of Anna Kaiser. a school
teacher and Frank Mayors.
Others known 10 have been drowned are:
GEORGE OWENS.
J. H CALHOUN wife and child.
CHARLIE RUFsFNER and wife.
RASTUS MGTLL
LENA BURK-
MRS. WATT.
MRS. WESLEY MGfLL and Eve chill
dren.
JOHN METZ.
Mrs. JAMES MONTGOMERY.
MRS pUMMINS.
JIM LILLY.
MRS DUMAS
H. II BECKFENGER.
MRS FRANCES MOORE.
JOHN BEARD.
MRS SUE WILSON.
JENNIE TAYLOR.
SAAfNTE JACKSON.
GEORGE SMITHERS.