The record-union., 1898-04-06

The rescuers are having the greatest
difficulty in persuading the people 70
leave their flooded homes. The second
floors in the majority Of the houses are
occupied, the tenants declaring they
viii remain TO 9rotect their belongings.
| The buildings are without fire, and
| their tenants are suffering with the cold
| AID the lescuers are turned away after
| eaving food. In extreme cases the res
| .uers have used force in taking them
| ut.
No new names have been added TO the
| list already published. A refugee stated
to-day that during the excitement sum
! day afternoon, just after the dyke broke,
he saw q farmer with his wife and two
children in a wagon furiously driving
through the street in front of the Court
+, house. The farmer evidently became
confused, for he dashed his horses
| square!y into the current from the
| creyasse and the next moment the We
l.lcle was overturned and the family dis
! appeared. The witness does not knO"
| the occupants Of the wagon and their
names cannot be learned.
Noah WEIGH, proprietor of a brick
factory at Shawneetowr, has gath
cred seventy-fve people at his
| factory and thirty-fve at his house.
| both buildings being situated above the
| Water-line On the hill. These people
| saved absolutely nothing but the cloth
! ing they wore. They were without food
al day yesterday, Mr.. WEIGH having
| exhausted all that he had at home.
| The Relief Committee hurried food TO
them to-day as fast as it was donated.
| Sheriff Galloway, who lost his fam
| lily, consisting Of his wife and two
daughters, Dora and Mary, is frantic
from grief. Everything possible is be-
ing done by friends to soothe him. bat
it is feared he will permanently lose
his mind. He constantly asserts that
it was his fault that their lives were
| lost. lie was at home with his family
when the alarm was given. He ran to
! his barn and took his two horses lead =
ing them to the foot of the hill, mile
away. where he tied them to a tree.
He then ran back to his house, only
to find that it had been demolished and
his family had persisted He secured d
boat and constantly rowed about the
ruins of his home crying aloud for his
| family, and searching everywhere in a
! frenzy Late in the night friends COM
/ DeIl6u MIN 10 go WITH tHeIu " SNeilGi
| where he is now being cared for
There were three carloads of relief
supplies at the waters edge to-day.
and the work of transporting them
| across the mile of back-water bayou
began promptly. Among the supplies
! were five long boats, which We're at
once put into service in place of the
rudely constructed log boats.
! AN AWFUL SCENE PRESENTED.
RIDGEWAY 0ll), April 5.-The scene
| in ShaWneetoWn is worse than in 1887,
/ or in 1881 when there was much suf-
fering and loss of property. but no
! lives We're lost. Every store in town is
| full of water, and no provisions can be
| had only as they are sent from sur
rounding towns.
Relief committees are doing all in
/ their power TO provide for the wants
! of the horrOr-stricken people. Cloth
| ing and provisions are being sent in
every conceivable way - on trains
| boats. skiffs, canoes and dugOuts. The
! provisions are cooked, ready To be
served on arrival. as there is but little
! il any chance to do any cooking, stoves
and cooking utensils being practically
all under water and fuel a scarce arti-
Gle. The people will not suffer for food
! or raiment however, Notwithstanding
! those in the doomed city are being
we'll cared for. There is much anxiety
on the part of many who have friends
I in the flood. The levee is in a pre-
! carious condition. as it is being under
mined in several places. 1t is thought
/ by conservative people that the loss of
/ life will reach one hundred. That num-
! Der are missing and unaccounted for,
while it is known that fortyfve or
! fifty have persisted The property loss
! to say nothing of the damage to the
/ levee and crops. will reach over $500.
| eco. Property in two blocks on both
! sides of Mill street is utterly ruined
and the damage to goods is enormous