The San Francisco call., 1898-04-06
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 WITH FOOD Relief Pours in Upon the Shawneetown
 Sufferers. Number of Flood Victims Now Placed at a
 Hundred. Water Still From Ten to Eff teen Feet Deep All Over
 the Town. SUFFERING AND SORROW, Where Once Were Happy Homes Men Are Now Searching
 for the Dead.
Water Still From Ten to Eff teen Feet Deep All Over
 the Town.
AND SORROW.
Where Once Were Happy Homes Men Arc Now Searching
 for the Dead.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

RIDGEWAY, H., April 5.-The gap in the levee is now over 100 feet wide and gradually widening. The water is from ten to fifteen feet deep all over the town. With the continued cold rains and the loss of life, suffering and sorrow are little abated.
 The scene in Shawneetown is worse than in 1887 or 1884, when there was much suffering and loss of property, but no loss of life. Every store in town is full of water and no provisions can be had except as they are sent from surrounding towns.
 Relief committees are doing all in their power to provide for the wants of the sorrow-stricken people. Clothing and provisions are being sent in 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, if any, chance to do any cooking here, stoves and cooking utensils being prac- tically all under water and fuel a scarce article. The people will not suffer for food, or raiment however. Those in the doomed city are being we'll cared for.
 It is thought by conservative people that the loss of life will reach 100. That number is missing and unaccounted fol. while 1t is known that forty-five or fifty have perished. The property loss, to say nothing of the damage to the levee and crops, will reach over $500,- 900. Property in two blocks on both sides of Mill street is utterly ruined, and the damage to goods is enormous.
 It was an hour and a half after the dyke first broke when the town was completely submerged. The family of the exception of Neil Clayton, a grand son of 8 years. He in some manner managed to reach the roof of the house and was taken off by Lloyd Rowan. The family of Riley Galloway Sheriff of Gallatin County. was lost, one nephew being the only member to escape. There was a report that a young lady visiting the family of Sheriff Galloway was lost, but this re- port could not be substantiated. Some said the young lady was with the family, but others denied it. The Sheriff is distracted, and it is feared he will lose his mind.
 Mrs. Reinholt, three of whose chil- dren were drowned, was carried through the town on a board which she had managed to seize. When the rescuers reached her they were unable l to lift her into their skiff, she being a very large woman, and throwing her a rope they lowed her a half mile to place of safety.
 David Kookendorfer and his wife, 1 finding their escape through the door cut off, rushed to the roof. By the time they reached it the house was floating southward. In a few minutes it parted, MT. Kookendorfer being on one half and his wife on the other. For the second time the roof parted under MT. Kookendorfer, and he sailed away on what was left to him. Ill-fortune | pursued him and his portion of the roof. The roof broke under him just as a hencoop came along, and he abandoned the roof and got on the coop. This proved his salvation, and he was finally able to reach the levee, where he climbed up in safety.
 Mrs. Kookendorfer remained upon her half and reached the 1evee without any of the Interruptions that met her husband.
 Paul Phalen, whose wife and daugh-