The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-06
FAlRvIEW CUT OFF.
Storm Sewers Nearly All Connections
With Outside World.

Fairview. Lincoln, Neb., July g.
With telephone wires out of commits
sion and Fairview, cut off from Lin
coin by washout on the trolley line,
William j. Bryan had ample oppor-
tunity to peruse the structures upon
himself delivered by James Guffey,
national committeeman from Penn
sylvania, in response to Mr.. Bryan's
attack upon him in speech on July
4th. +. ss7sss - 80
II have nothing to say was Mr..
Bryan's response to an inquiry anent
the Guffey statement
Last nights rain was torrential, ac-
companied b vivid flashes of light
ming and the terrific roll of thunder
for hours. The last trolley car from
the city to Fairview was compelled
to turn back. The rain ceased at
about daybreak and a large party of
repair men swarmed along the line
to drain off the flood and make res
toratlons where needed. Robert
Rose, Mr.. Bryan's private secretary,
was driven from the tent which by
choice he occupies on the Fairview
lawn. He rescued his bedding, but
his extra supply of clothing was soak
ed through. As the Bryan household
had retired for the night Mr.. Rose
sought and received shelter at the
nearby cottage of E. T. Grantham.
This morning Mr.. Bryan furnished
tAC OColdSSiSQ rHSWSPdPcIHldA WIN
had been marooned overnight at Fair
view with a collar to replace one
wrecked by the storm. He informed
Mr.. Rose that on similar occasions in
the future Fairview was to be a life
saving station for all outcasts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan narrowly es-
capped being caught in the first down.
pour. They had driven to the Rock
Island depot to greet some central
Iowa Democrats who were passing
through and reached Fairview just
ahead of the flood. A half hour later
the road leading down the hill from
the Bryan home to the trolley line
was a shallow river rushing down
with roar like small Niagara. The
Bryan hay crop suffered damage and
the poles on one side of the newspa
per tent were thrown down by the
sheer weight of water, which soaked
the canvas.
For a time the Associated Press
wire to Fairview was the only COM
munication between Fairview and the
outside world, but by s o'clock the
telephone wires were restored and Mr..
Bryan endeavored to gain news of the
whereabo bouts of Theodore A. Bell, the
Californian who is to be temporary
chairman of the convention at Denver
and who was the most important Wis
itor expected today.
The candidates early attempts were
unsuccessful. He was wondering how
he ard Mr.. Bell were to get together
as the roads seemed impossible and
prospects for an early resumption Of
street car service were slender.
Repair men who reached Fairview
at 9 o'clock reported that the trolley
line bridge over Antelope creek a mile
west of Fairview had been washed
away together with considerable
trackage. They thought it possible,
despite the deep mud that a carriage
might get through by roundabout
route. M ssSF $50
Automobiles could not by : any
means make the trip.
That this condition of affairs should
exist at this particular time when the
convention is about to begin is re-
garded as peculiarly unfortunate as
the downpour' was the heaviest Of
many years lin Athis district 1t is
feared Mr.. Bellrwho must be in Den
yer tomorrow to open the convention
may have found himself the victim
of delay on the railroads