Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-08-27
TELEGRAPHic NEWS.

Hood following the unprecedented
rainfall this morning.
Deep excavations made for sewer
construction purposes became a huge
sluice which was washed away. Bod
les of men. women and children were
wrested by the food not only from
the graves, but in many cases from
caskets which lay in the path of the
flood. Persons living in the vicinity
estimated that between 100 and 200
graves were washed out, and say
some of the corpses were carried into
the Blue river nearby. Cemetery
employees, out of respect for the feel
ings of mourners, concealed the facts
and hastily covered with earth many
OF the bodies, and replaced others as
nearly as they could determine their
original location. Fragments of skel.
etons, Baskets, shrouds and grave
markers and floral emblems lay along
the path of the flood, which in places
was 20 feet deep.
,NSAS CITY, Aug. 2S.-water
- two feet deep in the Union dep
OF during the center of the storm
heavy rain fell in the surround
ing country. At st. Joseph a section
81 one of the walls of the new audi
torinm caved in. Two inches of rain
fell in Harrisonville, Mo-. and over
three inches at Lawrence, Kan.
KANSAS CITY. Aug 23.-The
heaviest downpour of rain ever re-
corded here fell for four hours early
today, the precipitation being SOB
inches. Houses were flooded and
street car tracks blocked and many
streets washed out, and hundreds OF
Easements were inundated. Many
graves in Elmwood cemetery are re-
ported washed open. East Sixth
street was flooded to a depth of six
feet. The fire and police depart
ments were called upon to assist many
families from their homes. r. M.
Riggs, wife and children, and Frank
Dippe and wife were almost drowned
! ntheir beds in Kansas City, Kan.
Water backed into the basement of
the Kansas City Star plant, doing
much damage. Vivid lightning and
terrific thunder accompanied the
storm.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23-Hundreds of
persons, many of them residents of
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas and
of nearly s1,OOO,0O0, according to
charges made against two alleged get
i rich-quick sehemers who have been
Harvested here, The men are Henry D..
Bushnell, president, and l. B. Miller
secretary of the Tobasco-Chipas
Trading & Transportation company
and the Lu-Me-Ha Mills company,
both of Old Mexico
1t is declared by the postal author
tiles that the operations of Bushnell
and Miller covering a period of five
years, have netted them nearly $780,
900.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 23.-Frank
Hoffman, condemned along with Ag-
gle Myers, his paramour, to hang for
the murder of the womans husband
was again placed in a death cell yes
terday afternoon.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The I'M
equalled prosperity in manufacturing
industries in the United States for
the calendar year 1904 is shown by a
census bulletin Just completed. The
number of manufacturing establish
mppts in the country Is shown in the
last census as 100000, an increase OF
per cent over 1900. Capital In
creased in five years from 80 00,00O-
900 to $4,000, 100000, In the same
period the total value of products in
= creased from sll,000,O00,0 900 to s14.
O00,00O000; and in the same time the
number of wage-earners increased 1t
per cent and salaries 80 per cent
WASHINGTON. Aug. ga real
elephant hunt Is In progress here to
day. Four big elephants broke away
from Luna park and started for the
tall timber, and they are now in the
jungles along the Potomac and are
frightening the life out of the negroes
OF whom they have hurt several
Three OF the brutes were captured
this morning, but the least docile one
is being hunted.
TELLURIDE, Aug, 23-The where
abouts of Frank Maumy are as mucl
Of . mystery as ever, although thu
search is being kept up. A reward o
500 has been offered for his body.
NEW YORK, Aug, ga cabl'
from Bogota, Columbia, says;
John Barrett, United States min
lister to Columbia has left here 70
Guayaquil for conference with Sec
rotary Root on the proposed treat
with the United States concerning
Panama difficulties. The cabinet ha
a g1t