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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
Buildings CrumbIe and Fall, Store
Rooms Are Flooded, Many Families
Are Driven From Their Homes and
the City is in Stygian Darkness.
MOST DESTRUCTIVE CALAMITY
SINCE THE BIG FIRE IN 1882.

The great flood of Nov. "a, 1900,
has been surpassed and a new record
established.
Taking the water on the floor of
the l. C. depot as basis of measure
ment, it was 191 inches higher this
time than it was six years ago.
In 1900 it was 163 inches and this
time it was just 36 inches above the
office floors.
At the Gish corner the water
covered II bricks above the stone
foundation at the corner.
The heavy rains began Saturday
and up to Monday night more than
ten inches of water fell in the city.
About dark heavy downpour began
and continued hour after hour. BY
nine o'clock the surface water had
filled every sewer in town and was
running down many streets like a
mill race. Several stores on Main
street were flooded with this over
flow on its way to the river.
By nine o'clock Little River was
full to its banks and by ten it had
risen to the 1. C. railroad tracks.
The flood was worse than the one
before, because it was in the night
and the electric lights were put out
early in the night.
The rise was steady until about 3
o'clock a. M, when the high water
point was reached and the river
began to slowly recede.
The back water extended up Ninth
street to the door of the Moayon
residence, up South Main to Tenth
street and up Main northward to the
Kress store.
At the intersection of Ninth and
Main street, the water was 3 feet
deep and in front of the boarding
house of Mrs. Wall, near the l. c.
depot, it was 81 feet above the pave
ment. The yard is raised here and
the house itself is elevated. The
water reached the front door, cover
ing the porch, but did not run in
Mrs. Wall took Up carpets and
moved to the story above, but
fortunately the flood stopped at the 1
door sill.
In 1900 the water reached the
curling in front of the Kentuckian |
office. This time it stood 8 inches
deep over the Office floor, doing con-
siderable damage to stock on the
floors and filing the cistern under
the house with surface water.
There were some narrow escapes,
in the night, bdS no lives were
lost.
Enoch Phelps, who assists the |
janitor at the Planters Bank & Trust |
Co., was found in the basement I'M
conscious and was carried home. He
probably was Frustrated from fright.
Mrs. Bellamy's house, near the
Rock Bridge on North Main street,
was flooded late in the night and |
the family were rescued by Herbert
Johnson, who carried Mrs. Bethany |
and other occupants out in his arms. !
The houses of Mrs. Davis and Maxy |
Wade on the same street were sub
merged and the families driven out.
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stretched around it to keep the peo-
pie from getting too near it. The
building was put up in 1868 and has
been variously known as the Henry
block, the Mason block and lately as
the Garrett block. 1t is owned by
Mr.. j. F. Garnett, president of the
Planters Bank & Trust Co. Three
other stores in the same block were
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
Schools Suspended.

Owing to the general excitement
and the high wates, which shut off
some children from the school build
ings, there was no school Tuesday.
Everything was resumed, on a nor
NAL basis yesterday, except the Vir-
GINA street school.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
FLOOD RAINS.

From 300 a. m. to 600 p, m. Saturday.
$40 inches.
From 500 p. m. Saturday to 600 p. m.
Sunday. 100 inches.
From 600 p. m. Sunday to 900 p. m.
Monday SIT inches.
Total up to the food Monday night.
1017 inches.
From 800 p. m. Tuesday to 500 a. m.
Wednesday. LOS inches.
Total from 800 a. m Saturday TO 500 a
m. Wednesday. 1l.s2 inches.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22

Mrs. Be- lamy's hen house was flood
ed and all of her fowls drowned.
Lieut.. Booth Morris kept the
patrol wagon busy rescuing colored
people in the flooded district. He
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
Cemetery Submerged.

One of the worst effects of the
flood is in the overflow at Hopewell
Cemetery. The county has recently
changed the drainage on the North
Main street approach to the city in
such way that the volume of water
in MERGERS pond has been greatly
increased and flows across the street
and finds an outlet through the GEM
etery to the river. The Cemetery
has suffered great damage and it will
take $500 to repair the washouts in
the walks and driveways and many
of the lots are covered with water.
The immediate enlargement of the.
ditch on North Main street, to con-
troll the increased flow, is the only
remedy that can be employed short
of filling the cemetery on the north
ern side to keep the water out. City
Engineer McClaid will attempt to
get the cooperation of the Fiscal
Court in handling a problem thrust
upon the city by the county.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
Three Bridges Gone.

Three of the county's iron bridges
over Trade Water were swept away.
One was washed off its abutments at
both ends, another was moved out
of position and the abutments were
swept from under the third. All are
in the northwestern part of the.
county.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
A DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD.

flooded, as well as two in the Gish
building, next to it on the south
side.
Behind this square on Water Street
the coal yard of V. M. Williamson
was covered with five feet of water.
MIR. Williamson is away, but his
driver, Oscar Dickinson, COL, res
cued his nine horses from the stables
after the water was up to their
backs. The office furniture was
flooded and the big scales foated
out Of their position. The ware
room of Reach & Co., next to this
Office, filled with furniture, Jared
almost as badly.
Heat Plants Flooded.
Many pumps have been running
in getting water out of cellars. The
Planters Hardware Co. rugged up
two jet pumps with a gasoline en-
glne and pumped out j. H. Ander-
son & Co.'s. M. H. McGrew used
the city's big street roller engine to
pump out the Phoenix cellar. Frank
Martin pumped out Kress' cellar
with thresher engine. Many jet
pumps were used by hand and every
body, even father" has been busy
for two days getting the cellars clear
Of water. The heating plants of j.
H. Anderson & Co., the First Ma
tional Bank and the Anderson-Fowl-
err Drug Co. were all submerged and
hasty arrangements had to be made
for stoves.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
P'PoOl & Baugh..

Joe P'PoOl had sold out half in-
terest in his Racket store to Tom
Baugh few days before the flood
and the firm is now P'Pool & Baugh.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22

CONTINUED on Fifth Page.J
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-06
C TENT OVER;
TWO MEET DEATH
Wind Tears Down Immense Canvas Of
RineIing's Show as Elephants
Are Performing.

Chicago, June 30.-Two persons were
killed and several injured at Aurora. ILL.,,
yesterday when a mammoth tent OF the
Ringing Bros was blown down during
a severe wind and thunderstorm. A panic
followed in which scores narrowly escaped
being trampled to death.
Eighteen elephants. performing In the
arena at the time, We're prevented from
stampeding by the prompt action Of Their
keepers.
The dead:
Matthew Bury, Aurcra, Ill.
William Cress. Geneva, Ill.
Cress died from heart disease due to the
shock. Three women are among those Sc
verely injured.
There were 5000 spectators in the tent at
the time Of the accident.
When the crash came the performing
elephants had just begun their act. The
first gust of wind gave but an %instant's
warning and the next moment the center
poe supporting the nva roof snapped
near the top.
The audience was composed largely of
women and children. They were unable to
lift the heavy canvas. Egress was slow
at the regular exits and it Yves in the
crash at these points that many were in
jured. Rescue work by the police and
fire department was under way within
twenty minutes.
The storm. which approached the pro-
portions Of Il tornado, damaged many
buildings in Aurora and vicinity.
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YOUNG GIRLS AT ORGIES.
Astounding Stories Told of the Life Of
Stanford White.

New York. July 4.-Among other as
tonishing revelations concerning Stan
ford Whites career is one made by
Special Detective I. w. Rourk, formerly
manager for a private up town de-
tectiNe agency and now connected with
the Thomas Beet Agency in the Van
der5ilt building.
While i was managing a certain
agency Which is not necessary to
name" said Detective Rourk, our
company was engaged by Harry Ken
dali Thaw to keep Stanford White UNI
der constant surveillance.
Our services We're retained a few
weeks before Thaw married Miss
Evelyn Nesbit and they were continued
for about two months subsequent to
the wedding.
I'm the latter part of June, 1905, we
were especially directed by Thaw to
place two or three men at the elevator
entrance to the Madison Square Tower.
We were authorized to spare no ex-
pense in the matter OF automobiles and
carriages to follow White, day and
night.
"Our men began trailing White one
afternoon as he Was leaving the Offices
of McISim, Mead 6 White, ut No. 1850
Fifth m TIe was then accom-
panied by q well known society wom-
an. They took an automobile and went
directly to the White town house Oh the
north side of Graniercy park.
"A few days later two. of our men
Whoswere Watching the Madison Square
tower cav White enter the
elevator some tine after midnight. He
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-06
YOUNG ZELAYA MAKES
UP WITH HIS WIFE
1t Is Said the Reconciliation was Eff
fected to Please the Father of
the Youth.

Washington, July 3.-Through the
efforts of friends a reconciliation has
been effected between the estranged
son of Nicaragua's president, Alphonse
Zelaya, and his wife. who announced
their separation three weeks age.
Young Zelaya states that he and his
wife will sail for Nicaragua and seek
to Dacify his father, who has always
violently opposed the marriage with the
young American girl.
1.-The stories of our separation We're
all lies" said Zelaya. g
I'VE still love lei other, don't we.
sweetheart" said he turning to his
wife.
Sure" she replied, looking the part.
"You see, Alphohse was working in
New York for an electric company and
not making very much money. and
came home to visit my folkg. That's
how it started
YES" said young Zelaya, "the work
was awful hard, n the pay small, and
that's why ] am going home to the
president. A man in the United States
doesn't amount to much If he has nc
money. No money no friends, nc
| good things to eat, no nothing. A mar
of my station should not work anyway
The presidents son should live in fine
hotels, have lots of money and no work
That's why I'm going home"
Zelaya called on the president at the
White House to get certain letters OF
recommendation to the Bluefield Stee
Engraving company of Nicaragua, ir
which, he says, the president is nnan-
cially interested. Owing to the pressure
Of business the president could not SET
! Zelaya, but promised to talk with hin
when congress %adjourls.
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ouAkERs.
Stanford White Gave a "Pa-+y" in
philadelphia Once.

Philadelphia Once.
Philadelphia, Pa, July 4.-Stanford
White is known in the under world of
this city as the originator of at least
of the most daring dinners ever
carried through in Philadelphia. He
visited here twice in close succession
about six months g and it was up
on the occasion OF his second visit
that he announced to some Of the
Walton hotel guests thai he was to
give a little dinner at a resort in
Girard avenue. which has since been
closed. Upon his return about 5
o'clock in the morning he stated that
he had introduced to Philadelphia the
latest novelty in the English fast set,
"the strip Jack dinner.
AS nearly as could be made out by
Whites rambling account, the dinner
was attended by about ten girls and
five or six men. Even here Whites
tendency in favor Of exceedingly young
girls was noticed, as he referred to the
girls by a slang phrase commonly used
by nbertines indicating h a they were
very young.
The girls were called upon to shake
dice for stakes provided by the men
and the loser was in each case required
to remove a pin, hair ribbon or some
small article of clothing, SO that by the
time dinner began the girls toilets
were in a disturbed condition.
At the dinner the further require
ment was made for the removal of one
article Of attire for each course served,
with a prize of large value offered for
the one who's clothing longest sur
vivcd the stripping test.
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Tho official times were as follows:
P%oPULlsTIc AFFAIRS.
Nationa. Committee of the Peoples
Party Concludes Meeting.

st. Louis, MO, June 2S.--The ma
tional committee of the peoples party
assembled here in annual conference
upon the call of Chairman James H.
Ferriss of Joliet, Ill, concluded it's la
bors yesterday n adjourned sine die.
The work accomplished consisted
principally in the adoption of a reso-
luton introduced by H. j. Mullin of
Tennessee, providing that the peoples
party heartily agree in the work being
performed by the conference provi-
sional committee for the purpose of
the concentrating and centralizing the
reform organizations of the country in
to an integral part of the peoples par
ty; the adoption of a general address
to the American people setting forth
the doctrines and principles of the
party; the authorization of Colonel H.
L.. Bentley OF Texas to continue the
! work he has individually pursued for
sixteen years OF. organizing peoples
party clubs throughout the United
| States. election of him as president
of the peoples party club organization
and appointment of a committee to
, raise $4,000 annually to defray the ex-
penses incurred in the club federation
movement: the authorization OF a
movement to establish a party publica-
ton organ as soon as conditions JUS
| tify and a multitude Of resolutions dis
| cussing and eXpounding the doctrines
and basic principles Of the national
/ Carty.
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ssoo,ooo INSURANCE.
Stanford Whites Death Costly to the
Bin Three.

New York. July 4.-The bullet Harry
Thaw sent into the brain Of Stanford
White inflicts a tremendous loss upon
the large life insurance companies. 1t
was said downtown Saturday that Mr..
White carried more than 100000 in
surance on his life. chiefly in the big
Three"
In the Equitable Life alone he had
Ave policies a~ggregating s215. 000. The
most recent of the policies was taken
out seven years ago. The others a
been outstanding many years. The
beneficiary Of all his insurance in the
Equitable is Mrs. White. his widow.
Within the past two years White en-
deayored to increase his insurance, but
the companies declined because the
medical examinations revealed the
presence Of kidney trouble.
No steps have yet been taken by the
White family to collect any of the life
insurance. The fact hat he was MUIR
dered does not affect the validity of the
claims.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-06
BEES CURE RHEUMATIC
AND STOP TRAFFIC.
SINGERS Used in Effort to Aead OF
Pain-Others Tie Up Street
Car ine

SoN .sto
| Philadelphia. July ITO prove his
theory that the sting of a bee is Il sure
cure for rheumatism, Frank McGlynn
permitted himself to be stung by 100
insects that he'd been stirred up to
frenzy. This heroic demonstration tool
place at the apinrles of w. A. Seller,
' on Old York road. Jenkintown, where
moro h an 1000 bee experts from all
parts Of the east and some OF the near
western states had gathered to attend
a convention.
McGlynn explained that he had SUI
fered for years from rheumatism. Two
years & while visiting friends whose
business was raising bees. McGlynn &C.
~cidentally upset a hive. When the bees
were through with him he was unrec-
ognizable. Oddly enough, the next day
he noticed that his rheumatism had
disappeared.
NcGlynn consulted a physician and
was informed that the poison from the
bees probably had acted as an antidote
to the uric acid in thu blood. When a
recurrence of the disease came, Nc
Glynn ordered a dozen bees from an
apiary, and, to his Joy, the experiment.
worked.
bridgeport. Conn.,, June 29.-Four
honey bees held up trolley car No. &c
on the down trip from Shelton to
bridgeport and tied up the Connecticut.
Street Railway and Lighting company
for fifteen minutes. One combative bee
drove all SIX passengers from the car
and into the bushes on the roadside,
where they awaited developments.
The car reached signal light No. 6, a
mile and a half north of the Stratford
railway station, on time. Motorman
Will owens stopped the car; the con-
ductor, Peter Osterwies, jumped off to-
regulate the light so that the car fol-
lowing could pass q signal DON lWo
miles back.
AS Osterweis approached the box a.
bee issued from n hole in it which had
been bored to admit Il wire not yet put
in. The bee made n straight line tor
Osterweis' head, and while he was
bee came out of the box. banked
Osterweis. and iabbed q good sized
drop of poison behind the conductors
ear.
"Ouch!" yelled Osterweis, retreating
behind the car.
Tn late now growled 2 passenger
you are afraid of a bee"
AT the sheer, q bee, looking for fight.
entered he car, and the passengers
nearly fell over each other getting out.
Hey, Pete, throw over that signal"
yelled Motorman Owens, pounding his
bell to bring the passengers back.
Not on .our life!!" retorted Peter.
I've taken chances with a mad bull.
but no bees for mine"
Finally Owens cautiously approached
the signal. Perhaps it was his sui
phurous oaths. perhaps the blows from
his rain coat that drove away the bees.
returned. the signal was made, traffic
was resumed.
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SENATE CONFIRMS LANE.
Accepts Presidents Nominee for Inter
state Commission.

Washington, D. c., June 30.-The SEN
ate in executive session confirmed the
nomination of Franklin Lane of Cali
fornia to be a member of the inter-
state Commerce commission to succeed
former Governor Joseph w. Fffer, of
Illinois. The president sent the nomin-
aticn to the senate on December 6, last,
the Interstate m commit
tee failed to take action. Opposition
to reporting the nomination., it was
publicly stated, was based upon the
fact that if he We're confirmed the
democratic members would dominate
the commission, Mr.. Lane being a
democrat. Senator Elkins made a ia
vorable recommendation on the romi-
nation today by polling the committee.
Senator Foraker led the fight against
the confirmation, contendtng that Mr..
Lane lacks conservatism and is a pro-
nounced reformist in railroad matters.
Senators Kean and Tillman were both
opposed to the confirmation. Senator
Elkins urged confirmation, and in this
was Joined by Senator Flint. who said
he had opposed the nomination on ac-
count of Mr.. Lanes politics, but nov
that the commission is to be enlarged
by the new rate bill he withdrew his
objections. On the viva voce vote, Mr..
lane was confirmed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-07-06
H. D. PERKY, PIES
BITTER FOE. DEAD
He Evolved the Theory That the Civil
War Was Due to the Diet
of the pilar~e

Baltimore, Md, July 4.-Henry d.
Perky, a leading spirit of the vegetarian
cult in this country, who In speeches
had attributed the civil war to h pie
eating habit of the Pilgrim fathers and
their New England posterity, is dead
at Dread, Baltimore county. from apop-
lexy. He vas thrown from a horse a
month ago and severely hurt.
Mr.. Perky was OF tremendous ply
sique n although SO years old was
He was the inventor Of breakfast cere-
ais which brought him an immense for
tune.
1t was MI. Perky's boast that he
had not eaten meat in the last four-
Teen years and that the physiological
harmony induced by proper diet en-
abled him. although he had never TAX
IN a music lesson. to play a violin east
" and correctly as a mere expression
II his physical harmony.
Born in Nebraska. he was long a VIC
tim of dyspepsia. and in seeking q cur
turned to the subject Of proper diet,
became a vegetarian n began the
raised him from poverty to great
wealth.
He established Dread institute, at
Worcester, Mass, which was to be a
place of education and healthful physi-
cal labor for young men. He spent
AhOOt SZ5U,UUO on lne PROJECT, which
did not prosper there. He came to
Baltimore two years ago, purchased a
5o0-acre tract and had added to 1T
until a. the time of his death he owned
or had under options 5000 acres. He
had erected about forty buildings on
1t for the manufacture of his foods and
intended to start an institution like
hat at Worcester for young men.
When the New York Vegetarian So
ciety celebrated Thanksgiving day in
1900 Mr.. Perky made az address, in
which he said that the diet of the
Pilgrim Fathers was so poor that it
made them and their descendants
stingy, that they lived for generations
on pie, doughnuts and cake, sold their
slaves because slaveholding was not
profitable in the pie belt" N then
out of pure meanness, caused by a pie
diet, did not want the residents of the
southern states to have slaves. Hence
the war.
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.. ers from the town, with the aid 81
lsmps began the work OF rescue. Ihe
spectacle tina met their gaze wa
h~eartrending. Instead OF the shrleks
hat might have been expected othl,.
nous silence added to the horrors Oh
the scene. In the carriages hudd!ed IN
wreckage almost under the wheels OF
the upturned engine death had beer
busiest. Here nine men and tive %onl-
en- Were taken out dead soon AFTER ths
accident. The driver and fireman We're
dead in their cab. They We're all ia.
Of the injured We're given first aid ano
dispatched to the infirmary, which, for
tunately, was not far distant.
When an opening WAS made into tbs
second carriage a terrible sight was
revealed. AT one end OF a compart-
ment several bodies were jammed to.
gether in an almost u~nrecognlzaDls
mass. 1t was six or eight hours be-
fore it was found possible to remove
them.
In n part OF the coach the 6enteE
family. from New York. We're travelling
together. Of whom only edward w.
Stentell was found alive three hours
handed him through q hole in the car.
riage n shortly afterward he was
pulled out and taken to the intirmary
bleeding %profusely from q scalp wound
and with his left leg badly fractured.
Mayor Expresses His Sympathy.
An immense gang of men with q pow
erful equipment of wrecking trains
worked all day long clearing away the
debris and about 8 o'clock yesterday
a train got through. The mayor
Of Salisbury telegraphed to American
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid at London
heartfelt sympathy on the part of the
citizens of the town to the whole PEG
pie of America. Other words of SYM
pathy We're voiced in the OF all
the Salisbury churches.
Inquiry at the infirmary ate last
night elected the fact that r.. S. Critch-
ell, of Chicago. was unconscious from
a fracture at the base of the skull and
that both legs were fractured. He is
not expected to recover.
Miss Hitchcock, of New York, is pro-
crossing favorably.
Miss Griswold has undergone an
operation.
Miss Margaret Rask is very i'll.
L. w. Sentell IS doing we'll.
The cause of the accident is still in
doubt. 1t is suggested that the wheels
of the engine failed to take the switch
or that a wheel or axle broke. 1t is
opened today and a board of trade
inquiry later will fully investigate.
The train was regarded as having
been light for high speed, but it is
notorious that trains always sway and
shake going at a high speed owe this
curve. Much criticism is likely to be
evoked by the fact that latterly there
has been sharp competition between the
London and Southwestern and the
for the traffic between London and
mi