Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-07


sand jig to the tune of "Sally in
the garden sitting sand" whistlcd
by himself. Then he stopped and
leered for a while on the scene of
his proposed activity. Facing about
he surveyed things and remarked !:
"Thcy're sort u eXpectin' it and
I'm not the geezer to disapp'int
them With that he heaved enough
coal into his furnaces to take what's
left of the Spanish fleet voyage
to the dog star and back, and Old
Earth began To warm up in the
cause. Higher and higher Old Sol
climbed the skies, and every step
was announced by a rising degree
in the mercurial thermometer. Shell
ter from the heat was delusion
and a snare. The limit of endurance
was reached and Old Sol held it
there for three days and nights
without the slightest intermission.
Happily he fried so much moisture
out of the. earth that heavy rain
fell from the surcharged air Mon
day afternoon and restored the
temperature to normal state.
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DAMP GLORIOUS FoURTH.-Moh
day, the anniversary of our Uncld
Samuers natal day, was fair and
cloudless day until about one o'clock
in the afternoon. Then Jupiter Ply
vius, mistaking Uncle Sans proud
bird for the eagle of the Romans,
Jupiter's messenger, concluded to
take hand himself in celebrating
the Glorious Fourth. He mounted
the skies and with mighty sweep
of his arms banked a huge mountain
of nimbus clouds in the northwest
and west. When he got a suiiiciency
of material together he sent il slowly
rolling above the town. When good
and ready he graSped the clouds in
his hands and squeezed them like a
sponge. No, il wasn't rain that fell.
1t was simply "A cataract of water. 1t
was n King Lear storm. Down-spouts,
cutters and ordinary waste water
conduits We're useless. 1t is but the
bare truth to say that no such guam
ity of water within the same length
of time ever fell here before within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
After the pour of water had contin-
ued for while an electric display
that was terrific took place. Bolt after
bolt Of chain lightning was fired, ac-
c"mpanied by awful pcals of thuu-
dor.
/Thc result of the immense fall on
Eain was distressing. All crops on
kloping grounds were badly damaged,
'if not ruined. .kThr ordinarily Insi@-I
nificant spring branches and creeks
became raging torrents that swept
everything before them.
Prickly Ash, the most notOriously
treacherous small stream in the
county, outdid any previous record
for destTUctiyeness. 1t is Il short
creek, about five or SIX miles from its
head, near RcynOldsviile, to its
mouth in Slate Creek, east of this
town. Its fall is said to be about sew
enty-fve feet. Its valley (between
the 0wingsville and Daws0n's ridges
on the south and White Oak ridge on
the north) is narrow. and the fall of
water is quickly drained into the
branch by its numerous tributaries.
\ sudden heavy fall of rain frequent
ly causes it to send down body of
water some feet high, rolling ard
tumbling like vast reservoir had
broken loose. Its force is resistlcss.
Some years ago such a food came
down in the night and surrounded
the residence of Martin Mannin,
keeping the toll-gate at the foot of
the Shrout hill. Mannin started to
wade out with his little son and
daughter, but the powerful current
swept them all away and drowned
them.
On last Monday Prickly Ash quick
ly started on the rampage and by the
time the rain had ceased word came
to town that it was tearing up every
thing. 1t swept away the new Har-
per's school-house and lodged it
mile below on the bottom in front of
Sam Lathram's house. The school
house had in recent years been built
anew with view to its use as il
place of worship. \
Gus Mann's residence, near thel
crossing of the Sharpsburg pike, was
carried out into Slate Creek, sOmd
miles distance. Some of the housed
hold goods were washed out and
lodged in drifts down the creek. Ev1
erything was carried in it. Mrs. MANN
and little daughter escaped IN timeV
to Sam Lathram's.
A stable belonging to Tom and
Fielder Horseman with horse in ii
was washed away, but the horse got
out and swan ashore all right.
\ All along the creek poultry was
carried awayI Some cows were
drowned. The water was several feet(
heep in some of tho residences. The
recently harvested wheat standing
i'm the narrow bottoms was lost. The
most of the fencing is gone. The
growing crops were nearly totally
ruined. The Owingsville & Wyomiil lg
turnpike was badly injured at the
site of the former toll-gate.
1t is learned from Gault S Wells
teamster, Tom Dawson, that the
food extended to Mt. Sterling.
PERSONAL.
jeff Horseman was confined with
illness the past week.