The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-23

Lumbermen in the vicinity of Parkers-
burg, w. Va. lost about 100000 by the
flood in the Little Kanawha.
Mrs. John Conway, of Coal Creek. Tenn,
was found dead. yesterday morning. i'm a
creek. near her home. Her death is "A mys-
terry, but il is supposed she was walking in
her sleep and fell i'm the swollen stream.
She was a widow with two children.
st. Joseph, Mo-, reports that the present
rise of the Missouri river is creating ir-
reparable havoc on the Kansas side, and
the towns of Wathena and Elwood are in
danger OF being swept away. The river
has shifted to the west fully half a mile.
causing great losses to bottom farmlands
that have never heretofore been under
water.
The Eggleson tunnel on the Norfolk q
Western Railroad, between Bradford and
Bluefeld. has fallen in, thereby stopping
traffic on the main line OF the road. The
tunnel is about three-quarters OF a mile
long. All traffic TO and from the Column
bus. o., end Is now going via Bristol, Tenn.
The heavy snow and rains caused the
cave-in.
one hundred feet of the cofferdam of the
new dam of the Hudson River Power Com
pany. at Spier Falls. n. Y, went out yes
tcrGay owing to the high water from the
melting snow in the Adirondacks and the
heavy rains of the past week. Frank
Smith and oscar Satterlee, Of this city.
were thrown into the river by the breaking
Of the guy rope of the derrick. Smith was
drowned
A party Of herders reported in Knoxville,
Tenn, yesterday. from the Smoky noun
tains, having been driven out by the heavy
| snow. They report they left 400 or 800 cattle
| behind, all of which they say have frozen
to death by this time. The snow was four
| 10 six feet deep when they started home
Ward last Thursday. They had 10 fee for
their lives. Their horses were too numb 10
carry a human load, and hence had TO be
led out of the mountains.
The reported blizzard at Nome. Alaska.
I'm which 200 miners are alleged TO have
perished. Is discredited by arrivals at Van
| couver, from Dawson. on the steamer Vic
torian. The ~Skagway papers further in
vestigated the report. after receiving the
first announcement. and kilograms were re-
ceived at ~Skagway from Dawson stating
that Reed. who brought the story from
Nome TO Dawson. had probably been inn
posed upon. No of the story
has been received either at Dawson or al
Skagway.
For the first time in more than forty
eight hours, trains began arriving in Cleve-
land yesterday on schedule time from the
East. Between that city and Buffalo.
where the storm wrought such havoc 10
telegraDhic and telephone lines, a limited
number of wires have been restored and
placed in service. Between Cleveland and
P~ittsburg all direct telegraph lines are still
down. TIL suburban and city electric rail-
ways were operated yesterday with prac-
tically no delay TO trafhc.
Owing to the impassability OF the coun-
try roads. the people OF the village OF Rich
Vile. southeast of Massillon. were short OF
food over Sunday. The resumption of travel
Yesterday relieved the condition. Opera
tions AT three glass factories are suspended
because OF the gas pressure being too low.
Four hundred men are idle. The gas Is
piped from West Virginia, and II Is thought
the trouble causing the shortening OF the
supply il at the Ohio river. Fourteen trains
on the Pennsylvania were stalled I'm the
snow banks a few miles west OF Masslllon,
but trains sre now going through on time.