The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-16
CLOUDBURST SWEEPS
HUNDREDS TO DOOM
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lief fund as soon as the news Of the
disaster spread over the city, and
within few hours $1,000 was raised.
Supplies will be rushed to Heppner as
soon as they can be collected.
Those Identified.
Following is a list Of the identified
bodies:
= KRUG and family.
THOMAS How ARD and family.
JAMES JONES and family
DIR. NJ. SWARDS.
Family of c. A. Rnea,
MRS. CARR'S family.
MRS. CHARLES ANDREWS and chill
MRS. ROBERT BAIRD and children.
WELLS Sr. and family.
JAMES MATLOCK
THOMAS MATLOCKS family.
DIR. IIIGGS children.
MISS ELLIOTT.
MISS ELDER.
WILLIAM COHEN and family
WILLIAM WALTON and family.
HERBERT BARTHOLOMEW'S family.
JOHN MEYER
GEORGE NOBLE and family.
ROBERT KINDS and family.
MR.. AND MRS. DAWSON.
MRS. CHARLES CURTIS.
GEORGE TINSLEY, wife and child.
H. A. BOYD'S family
MRS. w. H. BERG.
CHRIS. M ASHBAUGH
CARL JONES and family.
GEORGE SWARDARD
JOHN M. HERMAN and wife,
G. p; hatfield, Agent Of o. R. &
BERT CABOT's family
BEN PATTERSON and family.
II. G. GERBER and family.
Several Cinnamon.
Fiftaar h11iJ5i,,oo T., -.i,,o
miles below Heppner, on Willow
creek We're washed away, but no loss
OF life is reported, the inhabitants hav-
Ing time to save themselves from the
surging torrent. At lone damage was
done buildings. though no loss of life
is reported.
Heppner and Surrounding Streams.
Heppner is the center Of a large
farming and stock growing country.
The town is built on the banks of Will
low creek near the conYerging point Of
four other mountain streams that drain
a large area of rolling and billy coun-
try that reaches from three to twenty
miles to the foothills and along the
course of Willow creek itself for fif-
teen miles to the base of the Blue
mountains
To the east and west Of the town,
running southwest and southeast, re-
spectively, until they empty into Will
low creek, are two deep gulches which
run back some three miles along the
foothills as they narrow to form the
valley in which the town is situated.
Flowing almost directly south to the
Willow creek and joining half mile
or so above the town is Balm creek,
which drains in it's course to the foot
hills for fifteen miles, a wide region Of
billy country. Next comes the main
water course, Willow creek, with an
immense area Of drainage that extends
northeast twenty-five miles to the Blue
mountains.
Farther east four miles is Hinton
creek, that runs nearly parallel with
Willow creek twenty miles, having its
rise in the foothills and entering into
the most easterly gulch few miles
south of Heppner.
The greater part of the business and
residence section of the town lying to
the west Of the creek is a low bottom
covering an area of about 1900 by 1900
feet.
Immediate Burial Necessary.
Word was received here from lone
late this afternoon that 800 collins
were needed at once at Heppner. The
weather is hot and it is necessary that
the dead should be buried at once. Two
hundred collins were sent tonight.
The Portland office of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation company this
afternoon received the following mes
sage from Heppner:
NEED relief in shape of large body
of men to help clear away debris and
recover bodies. Haste is essential, as
the i weather is turning warm and the
dead must be recovered before putre-
faction sets in. Damage to track I'M
known, further than ten miles below
here, which to that point is more than
two-thirds washed out.
agent Herman and wife are pre-
sun1ably dead, as they have not yet
been found. Depot and all loaded and
empty cars still intact, but the yards
are washed away"
New Paul Revere and Lexington.
J. W. Moore, OF this city, formerly
state senator from Morrow county, is
one Of the heaviest losers in a f1nan-
cial way because Of the food. He
owned a considerable portion of the
town of Heppner, and much Of his
property is located on low ground,
where the effect Of the water was most
seriously felt. His family Is in Port
land, but his father-in-law and sister
are at Heppner, and late tonight he
had received no news Of them.
Henry Blackman, who was at one
time collector Of internal revenue for
Oregon. went to Heppner Saturday,
where he is supposed to have been at
the time Of the cloudburst. No news
has been heard of him.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
has received information that a horse
man rode ahead of the flood and
warned the people Of Lexington and
lone, and by this means the loss Of
life at those places was prevented.
Officials Of the road left for Douglass,
the nearest point accessible by rail,
this evening on a special train. From
Douglass they expect to secure con-
veyance to the devastated towns.
wool buyers from Boston are sup
posed to have been at Heppner when
the cloudburst occurred and are be-
lieved to have persisted. The total loss
is about S10O0,OOO.