The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-06-13
WELLINGTON And VICINITY.

AND VICINITY.
Godfrey Roedel transacted business
IN Lexington Thursday.
W. r. Graham, of Fayette, Mo, was
here a day Or " this week.
Clyde Wright, of Kansas City, was
here one or two days lbis week.
Mrs. Ed. Schaherg AVID Miss Ella
Redhorst were IN l. xiogton Thursday
The childrens' day entertainment at
The M. E. church, South, uuday even
ing was we'll attended.
Oscar Mindrup came down from H.
depencence on business Wednesday
evening, returning Thursday morning.
There were huudreds of strangers
here Tuesday and Wednesday viewing
the great flold. Some came in wagon,
from the interior of johnson county.
Herman Harrow went to Kansas City
Sunday morning IN search of relatives
residing in the flooded districts, from
whom he had heard nothing since the
disaster.
So far as is known not one Of the
refugees from the land Inundated by
the high water who landed in Wclling-
tou went without shelter or failed TO
have sustenance provided.
As an Illustration OF the alertness
and activity OF the crew OF the ferry
boat Wellington, il is related that
Martin Frazies, one Of he hands, while
getting in a skiff in attendance on the
boat, last Sunday, slipped and fell
head first into water thirty feet deep
and came up and got out 50 quickly
that it did not pu, out the the fire 10
the pipe he was smoking at the time.
After bringing off what of bis
property that could be saved aud tn
water had risen up and entirely sub
merged his island east Of town, John
A. Workman secured a push car and
with the assistance of many willing
hands towed his flat boat to the rail-
road near the Harrls-Anderson mine
and pushed it three miles up the track
to the Egypt bottoms, where for the
next two days valuable services were
rendered IN saving live stock.
The mighty current that for the last
ten days has been flowing from one to
six feet deep across the narrow strip oil
land between the old Helm lake and
the river IN the west and that carried
the residence Of Cornelius Gates about
one hundred yards from its foundation,
} washed out and likely forever ruined
the road leading from Waterloo north
and entirely filling up and making a
sandbar of the whole north half of the
old lake, could be plainly heard il
Wellington.
Samuel, Weir, living near Sunshine
on returning to his home after thu
river began to decline, found one o
his old ducks out in the barnyard will
Its feet and legs buried in the grounC
so that it could not move and it had t,
be dug out. The fowl had evidentl,
remained sitting a little too long at
point where the whirling water wa
leaving a deposit of sand and soil
which filling in around its feet ha'
made 1t a prisoner, and the recedInY
waves left it sitting there.
To the crew of the staunch little ferry
boat Wellington, John Gausman, Wn
Tuepker, Hermon Harrow, Marti
Frazier, VIM. Carpenter, and the eve
ready VIM. Slaughter, colored, a
honor is due. The services of S. {
Archer and John Ritter, who with on.
the power and manhood that natul
gave them, forced their row boz
through the roaring floods from hou'
to house in the Egypt bottoms, offerin
assistance to all who we're in neet
hould not be forgotten.