The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-06-05


found a woman hanging 20 a frle-
graph pole. almost ready 10 lose her
hold. She had lost her baby. hut .
few minutes before she was rescued.
Robert stone, Of the law firm ~
Truman a stone. worked in a boat all
Saturday and Sunday taking food 10
the people cooped up ina North To-
peka. He says: 4. II. Wise. ex-cify
engineer Of Topeka. did splednid work
In North Topeka. lie had an unforiu-
nate experience with a woman and
her little child. He had taken them
out Of a house and was trying go get
them 10 the elevator. The boat cap
sized. and the child was swept away.
Wise tried TO pull the woman out. but
her dress was torn OF. and he was
unable 20 save her. Both mother and
child were drowned. Good work has
been done by Louis French and ~. H.
Wilson. who worked in all the homes
near the Rochester schoolhouse. and
who saved many lives. Arthur Woolan
and Emerson McGraw. with a little
hunting canoe. also saved many lives.
society Girls ~ work.
At least five hundred refugees slept
at the Auditorium Monday night. OF
the hundreds of pairs Of stockings do
mated many needed darning. and the
society girls Of Topeka have turned
out with needle and thread and done
yeoman service. The public schools
| have been dismissed. ard the teachers
also are aiding in sewing.
Robert Haggard and a man named
Burch rescued ". III. Troutman and
his daughter. IL took them four
hours battling against the current TO
| reach the house and take the Trout
mans TO the Mean bridge. Four girls
named Wilson in the Troufman house
refused to leave.
Three women floating on section
Of railroad track. where they had re-
NAMED all night. were rescued.
Charles Wallace. after rescuinc
many persons with a rowboaf. fell in
TO the water. He managed 10 swim
to tree. where he hung all night in
the cold rain Near him was a Young
boy. Their cries could be heard an
through the night but il was impos-
sible 10 reach them until morning
AT the Davis elevator Mrs. Conroe
was delivered of child in the cold
and bare surroundings
Young Woman Drtvea Insane
The horrors Of night on the roof
caused the temporary arrangement
of Miss Laura Irons.
DIR. Miner and his son-in-law. A. c.
Heating. missing since Sunday. were
found Monday on the roof Of a house
where they had lodged after an al
tempt TO float to safety on a poorly
CONSTRUCTED raft
III. c. Parsons went to Chief COTS
house. and. taking Mrs Goff and child
with him, started back TO the Melan
bridge. which was then the rescue
point. The boat struck a tree and all
were thrown into the water. Par
sons caught both the boat ard tie
woman and child. and towing them.
swan 70 tree. Ia assisting Mrs.
lOof TO climb the tree he was COM
PEELED TO release his boat Then Par
sons swan 10 a house dozen Yards
away. He broke i'm window. entered
and secured blankets with which he
made his way back 20 the tree fieing
his charges TO the tree in which
they hung. Later the woman and her
child Were rescued by others.
Rewards for Re.ca~rs-
Robert IIaggart and Bishop Hoard.
lexpert boatmen. rescued Miss Flor
ence Kimbail and sister, and received
$50. Shortly afterwards the same men
started back TO save the father and
sisters Of James Trouiman- They did
so after strenuous efforts receiving
500 rewards.
A man named J. &. Moore tioa-ed all
the way from Topeka 10 Lawrence
before he was rescued. As soon as he
got out he telegraphed back TO To-
peka asking If his family were safe.
While man was taking woman
and child from the north side across
to Oakland the boat capsized and the
woman and child were drowned 1t is
not known who they we're
Mother Holding Dead Raby-
A woman rescued from the roof ~
a house on Curtis street. where she
had been for several hours. was hold
ing her dead baby in her arms. She
was paying so much attention 10 The
child that she was Indifferent about
her own rescue
While a rescuin- party was rernov-
ing Mrs. George M. story. her two
children aud Miss Louise seahayen
from their home the boat car~ixcd-
Miss Seahavcn and the baby were
drowned.
A woman and little child who were
| ciinging TO a house near the Gabriel
lumber yard. on Kansas avenue. north.
were seen to lose their hold and nere
swept into the lumber Yard
Two Kind. Of Mem.
One man named Anderson kept yell
ing in order to attrac. attention
When boats would come he would di-
rect them 10 various houses where
people were suffering or III danger
When asked TO come out himself he
replied that he would wait until the
rest were saved. Another man SAT in
his garret with gun threatening 10
shoot some r,.gpsa for hrsalirr- sntC