The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-12
DENOTES GREAT WEEK.

Denote has had week of expert
ence which he Will keep to tell to his
grand children. At Eureka, Kansas,
on Monday night Wiud storm came up
during the lecture but the audience
after sending cyclone spies out decided
to stay and hear him through, which
they did amid furious bombardment
OF wind, ram, thunder and lightning.
On Tuesday evening at Newton,
Kansas, the storm Was the severest
that he and Mr.. Harrington have ever
seen. The hall made such a clatter
that speaking was impossible. The
stage hands backed up the windows
with plank to keep them from blowing
out. the water poured through the ven
tilatOrs into the parquet but the audi
ente stayed-they had to.
Between Caldwell and 81 Reno, U.
T., Denote ran into the big freight
wreck on tie Rock Island where fifteen
cars of mere handise, farm implements,
household goods, horses and tramps
were spread out in hopeless confusion.
He was detained twelve hours but
reached Ell Reno in time for. lecture.
but the worst was yet to come.
At 4:3O yesterday morning the siren
whistle at Ell Reno blew the cyclone
alarm and the citizens took to their
waves OuU OCMOUIO oolu AO WAC W
sleepy to go-that the cyclone might
have him Then followed the terrific
rain that has put the valleys several
feet under water. Oklahoma City was
his next date but the Choctaw r. r..
had lost three trestles and had to
abandon train service indefinitely. He
cOns2lted three liverymen who declined
to attempt to get through with team.
as the water in many OF the smaller
streams was running over the fence
tops. At noon the heaviest of the
storm had passed and Denote found
q man who believed he could get
through. They loaded four pieces of
baggage and Denote and Harrington
into good spring wagon and started.
But tt 9 ia n was not over and their
covering proved no match for driving
rain. At Yukon where the morning
train had been abandoned they found a
bridge gone and were advised not to
attempt to reach Oklahoma. A team
had just little while before floated
down stream and one horse had got 80
tangled up in the bridge that he had to
be cut out But they measured the
depth of the now falling stream and
succeeded in landing on the other side
not dry but high. The valleys of the
North Canadian were hard to get
through but at $50 the party were
within two miles of Oklahoma City
when they were stopped by bad cut
around the bridge by the river. The
case looked hopeless but as he said in
opening his lecture ''all roads go to
Oklahoma City" They turned back,
went north mile and east a mile and
came into the city from the hill side
reaching the opera house at 1885 p. m.
after drive of 80 miles. He said the
city was the most beautiful sight from
the north hills that he had ever seen.
The mud was scraped off and Denote
got into dry clothes while Harrington
rushed the stage setting and both we're
ready for lecture at S:45. There was
large and enthusiastic audience in at
tendance. The largest audience that
has ever assembled at lecture in Okla
homa City. The lecture was one of the
very strongest ever delivered in Okla
homa and was highly appreciated. His
subject, python Eggs and the Ameri
can Boy" was we'll handled. The Of
ficers and members of the lecture lyce-
deserve great credit for securing such
an able and instructive speaker.-T
Daily Oklahoman, Mayo.