Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-01-20
WORST FLOOD IN YEARS.
nu1N NEAR KENDRICK, IDAHO.
rnree Lives Reported LoSt-M""E
u,uses Swept Away-Juliaetta
r-amway and Warehouse Dam
a-.The whole Country Flooded

verdrick. Idaho, Jan. l5.-Suddhn and
,orrible floods in the waters OF all Pot
,s,ch streams have caused enormous dam
zoo in the valleys OF the Potlatch and
,1oarxater rivers. Three children are
ouvp TO have been drowned, and there
fears for the lives of Others who are
living on bottom lands.
l2r,dges and railroad tracks have been
-,Gte,ated; a score of houses at kendrick
have been swept away; the streets OF Ken
drck and the highways near the river at
N noints as far south as Pullman are
nooied and a waste of waters now forms
the landscape where two days ago was
fa,ming acreage and busy maIts. 1t will
10 weeks before the full extent OF damage
! known, for the rivers are still bank
f,,,l and Overlooking and rain threatens
tonight.
AZ o'clock in the evening the Potlatch
river. swollen into raging torrent swept
,brourh the embankment formed by the
rilroad grade above town and poured
nith sudden violence into the narrow
street which runs along the river bank.
BEFORE the people could collect their senses
the food was waist deep and rising, had
swept away score OF dwelling houses,
while the frightened citizens, carrying and
dragging their wives and children, were
breasting the torrent and making for
higher ground
30 far as is now known, all but three
escaped safely. The unfOrtunates were
the children of Charles Hamlin, street
commissioner OF Kendrick. They were
swept away and drowned, while the father,
mother and driver escaped after night
OF terrible peril.
MIR, and Mrs. Hamlin and their children
and a driver were in buggy drawn by
Two horses, in one of the main streets
oh the little town. When they saw ina.
the waters were rising about them efforts
we're made to get to higher ground, and
this would have been accomplished in
safety had it not been that 100 cords OF
wood above, carried on the surface of the
flood, swept around the frightened animals
and in an instant the vehicle was over
turned. 1t was impossible for the par
.ents 10 render assistance to their children,
or in fact to do anything for themselves,
for swimming among the thousands 81
sticks of cordwood was a feat the strong
est man would not have essayed. MIR.
Hamhn was brought out on the bank
after daring rescue by John Long. Mrs.
Hamlin was found this morning III the
top OF a dwelling, where she elung all
night, half dead from exposure and sui
feriRg from the terrible mental strain of
grief over the loss of her loved ones. The
driver was also rescued in the morning
from the top of building, where he also
had chung all night. Although the house
where he was located was in the middle
OF the torrent, ropes were thrown him
and he was dragged through the waters
to dry land.
There We're other daring rescues during
the height of the flood, which occurred
just as darkness was descending over the
town.
John Morgan is another who had a mar
row escape. He was swept out by the
flood, but caught the roof OF a dwelling,
where he chung until morning and was
rescued.
At JuIiaettn.
Juliaetta, Idaho, Jan. l5.-Juliaetta has
had flood experience the effects of which
wall be felt until March, for until that
time transportation over railroads will be
out of the question, if the opinion of rail
road men goes for anything. All bridges
above and below are gone with the waters
and there has been considerable damage
done grain warehouses ON the river banks.
Fears are felt for the safety of people H.
ing on the bottom lands below where there
are number of farms and families. 1t
Is believed, however, that the waters will
not be so high or the current so strong
that it will prevent citizens in the mum
dated district getting to safer places.
No Trains Into Lewiston.
Lewiston, Idaho, Jan. l5.--The rainfall
at this time is unprecedented in the his
tory OF the valley. The Clearwater at this
point rose S feet in 81 hours.
Several marrow escapes are reported
from Potlatch A cattleman from Asotin
was caught in the flood and lost about
~ head of cattle, his saddle horse, and
barely escaped with his life. The flood
was caused by the recent warm rains and
the melting of about four feet of snow
IN the Potlatch.
PalOuse Rivers Rising.
Colfax Wash, Jan. l5.-The South Pa
louise river has reached the highest point
IN several years.
then knocked Choynski out.
A dispatch from Paris says that Paul
Jaujou, the famous French brewer and
philantropist, was shot and killed in a
railway carriage yesterday by young