Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-06-19

lief committee to come and take what
goods were wanted. People were COM
ing in from all directions to the assist
ance OF the suffering and dead. They
could not come by rail for nine miles
of the track below town was washed
away. All wire communication was
prostrated.s>
"Lesie Matlock, young man, was
the hero of the day. When the flood
first came he mounted,a horse and
rode at breakneck speed down the can
yon in front Of the rushing water to
notify the people of Lexington, a
small town nine miles below. He had
to go over rough and stony road, and
the night was dark and stormy. He
arrived at Lexington just few mir
utes ahead of the flood. The people
were warned and Immediately left fer
the hillside. When the flood has
passed. only two houses were stand
Ing"
Partial List Of Dead.
lone Ore, June IA list of the
dead or missing; as near as could be as
certained Monday night, is as follows:
James Mattlock. Mrs. Tom Mattlock. J.
8. Hocket and two children, son of William
Ayres, w. w. Allen, wife and daughter;
Mandy Jones. Mrs. James Jones, A. C.
Cretger. Percy Dawson. baby and two
boys; Mrs. Nora Florein, Mrs. Ada Curtis
and baby, Mrs. c. d. Redfield, Blanche
Redfield. - Herman, vashti Andrews,
Pearl Jones and family, James Willis, Fred
Krug and four children, Mr.. and Mrs. Daw-
en- md oh
Howard, wife and three children; Mcbride,
family of six; Hermann. wife and father;
Liptz and child, Abe Wells and wife, Mrs
Ashbaugh and six children, Dr. McSward,
Chrisman, George Thornton, wife and
child: Mrs. Keithley and grandson, Mr. and
Mrs. Gum, Mrs. Padberg, Maud Lelefer
and mother, Grover Wright, Mr.. and Mrs
Long and five children, Ora Roberts. Maude
Keithley. MIS-. Robert Hynde and two chill
dren, Fred Oxley. Alice Bolus. WILDER
Beard and family, Florence French, Zelda
Mcdonald, Nellie Howard, Fred Willis, Ed
Reef. wife and baby; Pres Looney, Mrs.
Henby, r. o. Hart and wife, jenkins fam
lily. Charles McLarey's child. of Pendleton;
MRS. Estes and daughter. Eunice Briggs,
Mrs. Clyde Wells. Andrew Peterson, OF
Hillsbero: - Kelly, unidentified boy, J. J.
Harris Mrs. Woodward, Mrs. N Davis,
Mrs Elizabeth Wills and daughter, Mrs.
Adams family of George Swiggert, D..
James, wife and daughter; j.. L. Meyers, T.
w. Ayres, Mrs. Beach Hynd, Hazel Hynd.
Mrs Guy Boyd, - Fischer, of Spray; Mrs.
e. L. Andrews and four children, DR.. K. F.
Vaughn and wife. Mrs. c. A. Rhea. Mrs.
Lloyd Estes, Mrs. William Myers, Jr., and
four children: Mrs. Abrams and daughter.
Mrs. j. Woodward, - Banks and wife.
John Steer, of Portland: w. A. Peterson,
]. M. Cooley. Assessor W. l. Daling and
wife. Mrs. Church. B. Gentry, three Japan.
csc, seven Chinese, Mrs. Guerdane, George
Kentzley and wife, Mrs. O. c. Boyd and
three children. A. S. Weld. Harry Wells
| and George Wells, Mrs. Clyde Wells, Mrs
Curtis and child, Mrs. Nora Adkins baby
OF ]. X. Carr. Mrs. Dave Hamilton and two
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. James Jones and
two daughters. Harry Handley. wife and
child: Bertha Frislow, Mrs. Lumshea,
James Willis and two children, William
4 Dawson and wife.
In addition to the foregoing are 20
babies and strangers that were NOT
identified.