Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-05

capped alive. The Riverside hotel and
court house and the Ridgeway bank
are intact and We're found to have been
used by the fleeing inhabitants for
shelter. The upper stories were crowd
ed. Several hundred people were
promnading on the top of the levee
Sunday afternoon. Sunday schools
had just closed and the children
trooped merrily along the smooth walk
enjoying the bright sunshine.
THIS PROVED A BLESSING
to them. A large crowd had just pass
ed Market street, where the break oc-
CURED. Luckily no one was passing
there just at the moment.
The railroad station at Ridgeway
has been crowded all day and despite
the steady downpour Of rain the people
cluster about the place each anxiously
inquiring for some new tidings from
the food disaster at Shawneetown.
Mrs Harry Dumont was one of the
arrivals tonight from the flooded dis
trict Mrs Dumont in company with
a friend. was walking along the levee
at the time the break occurred. She
said:
1T was about 4:25 in the afternoon
when we were suddenly startled by
hearing the bells of the different
churches throughout the city changing.
People began running in all directions
and somebody shouted that tie levee
had broken. We ran three blocks to
my friends home and went up stairs.
Within ten minutes the water came
pouring down the street and within
twenty minutes it had risen almost TO
the second floor Of our house. My
friends soon came to us with Skin
and took us to the Riverside hotel.
The first alarm was given by Father
Buchanan, who began ringing. the bell
of the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception.'
The lower portion of Carmi, H., on
the Wabash river, is entirely tooded.
The water reaches half way to the sec
ond stories of the houses. The water
is level with the floor of the iron road
bridge. but that railroad bridge is still
two feet above at one point on the Big
Four a mile north Of Carmi, the track
is but
ONE FOOT ABOVE WATER
for a. quarter of a mile.
Governor Tanner, this afternoon, start
ed from Springfield one hundred tents
blankets, CROUCH for go people, anu
sufficient amount Of prepared toou LOT
tbe inan7edia.a relief Of i.204 people. lie
also wired Attorney W. S. Phillips, pres-
6ent of the Gailatin County Bank here,
10 draw upo1r him for $1,000 as an imne-
diate relief fund Governor Tanner mas
issued i proclamation to the public to
send in relief in care of MIR. w s. Phil
lips. at CHS place. The OdSf Fellows ana
Masonic Lodges are supervising the dls-
tributing of supplies. AS fast as they
are receives they are taken by a special
train to the waters edge, terrled across
in skiffs to Cypress Junction, and from
there taken by wagons TO within two
miles of Shawneetown. All the carpen-
tiers in Ridgeway fell to making flats this
morning for the transportation Of the
su1;pIies across the inundated territory,
and an impromptu ferry has been estab-
lished. The water Is a mile wide az the
crossing point AND is back water. the
river being seven miles. The Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern tracks are under
five feet of water for FIVE miles north Of
Cypress Junction.
The following is a portal list that has
been gathered up to midnight Of those
who are missing and possibly dead:
Col Calicott. Mrs Callcott. Mrs. Gallo
way, Dora Galloway, Mary Galloway,
Mrs. Holly, Mrs. Greer. Mrs Ed. Flake,
Charles Clayton Mrs. Clayton, four
Clayton children; Annie Rineholt, Clar-
ence Rinehoat. Mrs Paul Phalen, three
Phalen children, nephew Of the Phalens;
Mrs. Mccain, Florence Evans, Ellen Nc
Allister. (coloredC: Mary McAllister, (col-
ored): r. b. Hook, telegraph operator at
L. & n.
Ed Flake. whose wife was drowned,
came to Cypress Junction to-day and said
that there were fifteen people in his
house when the flood struck the build
ing Only himself and one other sue
ceeded in escaping before
THE BUILDING TOPPLED
over. Mr. Flake was hysterical from
grief. and could not give the names of
the thirteen who We're lost. Marsh CALI
colt. the son of Wash Callicott. and wife,
who persisted, made an heroic effort to
save his parents. He secured a row boat
and got within forty feet Of the home
where his mother and father We're i'm
prisoned The swift current prevented
him from coming nearer. The parents
stood in the yard in water to their arm
pits awaiting the arrival Of the boat.
Suddenly a wave swept them into the
current and they were drowned before
their sons eyes. George HARRISON, a
merchant. seized his little granddaughter
when the water struck his store and hold
ing her above his head. waded, arm-pit
deep. toward higher ground A boat
picked them both out Of the wafer David
Rookendorffer and wife were in their
home directly in the path of the huge
wave that swept through the broken
dixie Their little son. in the yard, saw
the wave coming and hurriedly climbed a
tree The father and mother had time to
rush up stairs when the house was swept
from it's foundations. They climbed on
heard their little son in the tree crying: