The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-04-15
STRICKEN SHANNEEI0NN.
lnE STORY LOSES NOTHING IN PATHos.
A Few of the Bodies of Drowned
Victims of the Deluge Have
Been Recovered.
The Death List Not Quite as Large N
First Reported Some Individual IA
pcriences Relief Work Being Promptly
and systematically rushed-A List OF
Those Positively Known TO be Dead.

rcported that by 10 n. IN. II bodies had
been recovered at Shawneetown. Inc
telegraphic communication between
Cypress Junction and Shawneetown
has not yet been re-established. and the
rumor can not be substantiated. 1t Is
said some of them were badly mangled.
Dinicultie. Encountered by Rescuers.
The rescuers are having the greatest
difficulty in prevailing upon the people
TO leave their Hooded homes The Sec
ond floors in the ma jority of the houses
are occupied, the tenants declaring they
will not leave. but will remain to pro-
tect their belongings. The buildings
are without fire and their tenants are
suffering with the cold, yet when res ,
cue boat approaches the rescuers are
turned away, after leaving food. In |
extreme cases the rescuers have USED !
force in taxing them ont and placing |
them where they can be cared for.
Three of tho Reinholdt Family Found.
The rescuers have found Mr. and
Mrs. Renholdt and their daughter,
Lucy, who were reported among the
missing Two more daughters of the
Reinholdt family are, how ever. known
TO have persisted. The parents were
rescued by one party of boatmen ana
Lucy was taken out by another. she,
therefore, was under the impression
that she was the sole survivor of the
family, and her frantic grief was terri
BILE. Standing AT the waters edge she
wrung her hands and cried aloud in
her agony, until kind-hearted strangers.
who, too, were weeping in sympathy,
led her away.
What Refugee saw.
Up to noon no new names have been
added TO the list already published.
refugee stated that during the excite
ment, Sunday afternoon. just after the
dixie broke, he saw farmer with hls
wife and two children in u wagon driv-
ing through the street in front OF the
courthouse The farmer evidently be-
came confused, for he dashed his horses
squarely into the current from the
crevasee, and the next moment the
vehicle was overturned and the family
disappeared. The witness did not know
the occupants of the wagon. and their
names can not be learned.
A Hundred Gathered at u Brck Factory.
Noah Welsh, the prophet or OF
brick factory at Shawnee town, has
gathered IS people at his factory and
IS at his house, both buildings being
situated above the water line on the
hill. These 40 people saved absolute
ly nothing but the clothing they wore.
They were without food all day Mon
day, Mr. Welsh having exhausted all
that he had at home. The relief COM
mittee hurried food to them IS soon as
received.
County Treasurer Saniss' Experience.
County Urea surer Henry Sanks re-
lated his experience as follows: II was
sitting in my home talking to Mrs.
Goetzman. neighbor, who had called
about half-past for Sunday afternoon,
when suddenly the bells began ring
ing. Mrs. Goetzman jumped up and
cried: Il believe the levee is broken.
rushed outdoors and found Mrs. Lee
Howell lying on the sidewalk in front
OF my door, where she had tainted frou
fright. | carried her home, block
away, and came back to tell my famil }
t. :.oye upstairs at once. Then raI
TO the courthouse, a block distant, u
get my
County Treasurer's Records.
alt took me about ten minutes u
gather them up and rush back home
NV house was almost "A mile away from
the levee. but by the time got there
could see the water coming. foun'
my family upstairs all safe, and in hal
an hour the water was up to the secon'
floor. We were all taken out by boats.
Treasurer Sanks and his family ar
STAYING with friends in Cypress June
4 L.. AL. .
containing the farmer and his famil
overturned and the occupants swep
away. lie said that there were tire
children in the wagon, instead of two
as stated by the other witness.
sheriff Galloway Almost Crazy.
Sheriff c. r. Galloway. who lost hi
family, consisting of wife and tw
daughters, Dora and Mary, is franti
with grief Everything possible
done by friends to soothc him, but it
feared he viii permanently lose h
mind lie constantly asserts that
was his fault that their Ii res were los
lie was at home with his fanl
when the alarm was given th'
the levce had broken. He II
medatcly ran to his barn al
took his two horses. leading them
the foot OF the hill, a mile away. whc
he tied them to tree lie then RI
back TO his home. only to find that
IL Had Been Demolished by the Fioo'
and his family had persisted. He
cured boat and constantly row
about the ruins OF his home. cryi
aloud for his family and searchi
everywhere in frenzy. Later in I
night friends compelled him to go wi
them to shelter, where he Is now bel
cared for.
THE SCENE IN sHAwsEETOwN
The Dciugc Worse than Those OF 1884 I
lsS5-somc Of the known Dead.
RIpewAy, H., April 9 The scene
ShnwnaninAxr l. Avnr.n than In lSN-