Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-14
stricken SHANNEETONN.
THE 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 a.
First RePorted-Some Individual E4-
Periences-ReIief Work Being Promptly
and systematically Pushed-A List OF
Those Positively Known to be Dead.
CYPRESS JUNCTION, Ill, April ct is
reported that by 10 a. m. II bodies had
been recovered at Shawneetown. The
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.
Difficulties Encountered by Rescuers.
The rescuers are having the greatest
difficulty in prevailing upon the people
to leave their flooded homes. The sec
ond floors in the majority 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 a res
cue boat approaches the rescuers are
turned away, after leaving food. In
extreme cases the reScuers have used
force in taking them out and placing
them where they can be cared for.
Three of the ReinhoIdt Family Found.
The rescuers have found Mr.. and
Mrs. Reinholdt and their daughter,
Lucy, who were reported among the
missing. Two more daughters of the
Reinholdt family are, however, known
to have persisted. The parents were
rescued by one party of boatmen and
Lucy was taken out by another. She,
therefore, was under the impression
1hat she was the sole survivor of the
family, and her frantic grief was terri
bic. 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. A
refugee stated that during the excite.
ment, Sunday afternoon, just after the
dixie broke, he saw a farmer with his
wife and two children in a 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 Brick Factory.
Noah Welsh, the proprietor of a
brick factory at Shawneetown, has
gathered rs people at his factory and
35 at his house, both buildings being
situated above the water line on the
hill. These ITO 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 as soon as
received.
County Treasurer Sanks' Experience.
County Urea surer Henry Sanks re-
lated his experience as follows: 81 was
sitting in my home talking to Mrs.
Goetzman, a neighbor, who had called
about half-past foIr Sunday afternoon,
when suddenly the bells began ring
ing. Mrs. Goetzman jumped up and
cried: Il believe the levee is broken
l rushed outdoors and found Mrs. Lee
Howell lying on the sidewalk in front
of my door, where she had tainted from
fright. L carried her home, a block
away, and came back to tell my family
to move upstairs at once. Then l ran
to the courthouse, block distant, to
get my
County Treasurer's Records.
sit took me about ten minutes to
gather them up and rush back home.
My house was almost a mile away from
the levee, but by the time 1 got there 1
could see the water coming. found
my family upstairs all safe, and in half
an hour the water was up to the second
floor. We were all taken out by boats"
Treasurer SankS and his family are
staying with friends in Cypress juno
tion. He said he also saw the wagon
containing the farmer and his family
overturned and the occupants swept
away. He said that there were three
children in the wagon, instead of two,
as stated by the other witness.
Sheriff Galloway Almost Crazy.
Sheriff c. r. Galloway, who lost his
family, consisting of wife and two
daughters, Dora and Mary, is frantic
with grief Everything possible is
done by friends to soothe him, but it is
feared he will permanently lose his
mind. He constantly asserts that it
was his fault that their lives were lost
He was at home with his family
when the alarm was given that
the levee had broken. He i'm
mediately ran to his barn and
took his two horses, leading them to
the foot of the hill, mile away, where
he tied them to a tree. He then ran
back to his home, only to find that
1t Had Been Demolished by the Flood
and his family had persisted. He Sc
cured a boat and constantly rowed
about the ruins of his home, crying
aloud for his family and searching
everywhere in frenzy. Later in the
night friends compelled him to go with
them to shelter, where he is now being
cared for.
THE SCENE IN SHAwNEETOwN.