The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-06

even then It is difficult TO say how matters
can be made worse than they are.
The entire town Is buried under ten to
fifteen feet OF water. with the exception
of houses on the embankment immediate
~ fronting the Ohio river All OF these
have water In the cellar and most OF them
are flooded to the second story.
The water began 10 fall today and about
. O'Clock this morning had receded eight
feet from the highest mark o. Wednesday.
a high north wind was driving the waves
before and II no more rain comes 1t is
probable that the town Will dry in two
weeks. Not single body has been re-
covered as yet. and there Is no probable.
ity that any will be found until after the
waters have entirels- subsidized.
The lsyee broke on the north side of the
town sweeping what II known as the
First Second and Third wards clean of
sill buildings All Of the people who were
drowned met their death In the First ward
and the northern part Of the Second ward.
which was the nearest 10 the break.
There is q. large semi-circnIar dixie to the
south OF the town, inclssing ii on that
side as the broken dixie did on the north.
Down the edge OF the dixie and In the
;0wn proper Is a tangled mass of trees.
shrubs and brush wood. Into the curve
formed by the southern dixie the bodies
were carried by the food and sil of them
are supposed 10 DO scattered along the
southern dixie. which Is nearly a mile In
extent No attempt will be made TO find
the bodies unless they eGarse 10 the surface.
In addition 10 the pressing necessity for
food 10 sustain life, TOO people have been
driven from their homes with TO clothing
bat what they wore at the time they were
overtaken by the food Every available
room In the town Is taken. every family
j. living IN the second story Of its house
and OF those whose homes we're wrecked.
hundred or more are camping in the court
house. los in the schoo!house. . In the loft
OF small elevator, - in a Touring mill
and the ferry boat Jessie Wilson has fur
nisaei refuge for laS.
Many have been taken 20 Mount Yer
noi. Cypress Junction and other places
The entire country north. south ard west
os Shawaeetown Is eover~d with water
and iocomoTi1n Ia most directions Is al
NOS. impossible Immediately north OF
shawneetown there IL not sufficient dry
ground to-day for a single polling place
ard there was therefore 10 election and
the old officers will hold over for another
term.
Mary acts OF herossm we're performed
by the sownspeople in rescu!Rx their fsi-
Law citizens Prominent among the lead
1rs in ,hls work were LLOYD Rowan. an
old man. who with a skin saved thirty
four people by his own individual Efforts:
Frank Robinson. Marshal CaEllents ard
william Vaughan. all OF who did heroic
work with sk.ns- Csllscotf IL the son OF
Washington Csiiicosf #ana was within
,airsy feet CT hls~fAtaer asd rssstA~r ~ hen
they were drowned. he made desperate
e-orfs to reach them. bat they were horne
Down ny tire food ard did rot rise again.
IRE Only way in waich those using skis
could save people VAS by dropping dows
% points lower The sow Of water Was :,
rapss TIA, no ore could make Roadway
against IL ard no rescue ~ork could be
gions III tas Bslghaerhoo4 of the dixie
Win the exception CT the lives lost In the
three squares near the dixie. asi per-ons ia
The town escaped 80 the waterx spread
wirn Less and f>es rapidly.
There never was q town more difficult
20 obtain news from than ShawneetsEr.
There were oriy two Eays Of reaching
sf one fFurn the river and fhe other By
road from Cypress Junction. Sin miles
from fhe sown- Al. seserEons wires were
DOWN ssss the telegraph lines we're sn no
better ~ran6 ton. Tae Associated Press
usa basss their own line 81 wire frou .