The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-19
STORIES OF THE
HEPPNER FLOOD
Prompt Work in improving San
itary Conditions.
SAD CASE OF MRS. ASHBAUGH
LOST HER OWN BABY, BUT
SAVED ANOTHER LITTLE ONE.

Tt EPPNER, Ore, June 1S.-Two
thousand men and hundreds OF
horses are at work this morning
rushing restoration of order out Of
chaos. The bodies of two Of the Stalter
children have been found. The re
mains were discovered today and were
preserved in hailstone banks, although
badly manned.
The relief fund in sight approximate
81, coo. The city council has posted
bulletins asking those who are mere
Tor idle curiosity only to make their
visits as short as possible.
There is no fear of an epidemic, &C
cprding TO Health officer kisner
Prompt work in improving the sanitary
conditions has undoubtedly saved the
town from an epidemic There IS con-
siderable sickness, but it is not of a
serious nature. Physicians are kept
busy looking after women especially
who are i'll from the effects Of fright
Saved Another's Child.
Much sympathy is felt for the Ash
baugh family. In the three blood re-
lated families Of Nose and Ed Ash
baugh and Pearl Jones, brOther-in-laY
10 the two, seventeen members of these
families were killed or drowned. -Four
children in one family are missing
AIRS. Nose Ashbaugh is one Of th9
saved. She suffers with attacks or
condition. Mrs. Nose Ashbaugh Is o.
sister-in-law of Mrs Jones, and when
the food came down she started to
flee with two infants. one Of them be-
ing her own babe and the other one
Mrs. Jones. She held an infant under
each arm. Bufeted by waves that
raced around her and twisted her
skirts about her limbs, the woman val
ianuy commended to save herself ana
both children. 4 prayed aloud to God
To save the little ones if I should fan,
she said, but nv own poor little one
was the one to go Maybe he knows;
the choice of the infants had to be
made" The agonized mother could
hesitate only an instant The noun
tain of water bore down upon her. 0ne
intended to sacrifice Mrs. Jones child
for her own In the excitement she
inadvertently let go of her own ydby
and reached dry ground with MIS-
Jones child. Dazed by the discovery
made shortly afterwards that the child
whose life she had protected was an
others. she would have plunged into
the black. boiling stream in search OF
her baby, but was restrained by kindly
hands.
Search For the Missing.
Today there is greater crowd of
Sad-faced watchers lowering about the
hall of the dead. Every hour or two
arrivals of strangers from distant
points swell the crowd on Main street.
Parties Of frIeads and relatives are
organized and are searching the valley
for miles for clues TO the bodies Of
their missing friends or relatives. Or
phans. children. bereaved mothers and
fathers pace the street in front Of the
han Of the dead. abSeuting themselves
to eat while watching for arrivals Of
recovered bodies.
Thirty pieces of baggage, including
grips and trunks. have been picked N
and searched for Identification of the
owners. The baggage is stored in a
warehouse and has led to the discovery
o. several persons either alive or dead
There are FIVE trunks in which no
means of Identification appear Sew
eral eastern trauSients who were IN
Heppner may be lost
The baggage has the following names
. on it. Albert TUrnant an envelope III
a trunk addressed to Stella b Howard
Charlton. Ia. Carl WinteTcOTn. trunk
card of Attorneys Lent and Humph-
reys. San Francisco; Arthur Austin
Dolph. Ore. grip; T. 9. GrOomes
trunk; Harry ". Askino, trunk, Blair
Neb.: Fred L. Higgins, Carbonate
Colo. Ietterheads on correspondents
with the w NJ. Dinkle Mercantile COM
Dany of Carbonate. Colo, H. Cove
trunk. sheep shearer- Chuck Cham berS
sheep shea-er- V Gentry. barber: John
d Olson. trunk. cared for by Odd Eel
lows; A. NJ. Peterson, paper hanger. OF
HiIlsbOrO, George KintZley, trunk
cared for by J. F. Campbell; J. P
Thorpe of Rapier Gap, Va.