The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-25


were shut off from the outside world
the telephone and telegraph wires be.
ing torn down by the storms. The
service Is better today. For while
yesterday morning the sWeet-aarr ser
vice was entirely aband5Red ac-
count of the power plant shifting
down for the storm and when they
again resumed operation they were
checked blythe failing Of heavy tree
on the corner OF University and Divi
sion caused the trolley wire breaking
In two. When the repairs had been
made Il was then too late for the
street cars to cross the West side and
many Westsiders who had contem.
plated taking the car over were
forced to stay on that side OF the river
Much Track Under Water.
The hood yesterday covered the
street car tracks from midway be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets on
West Oklahoma ayeHne TO Seventh
street and all the track on Seventh
Htreet from Oklahoma TO Warner ave.
nues and up Warner avenue from
Seventh street to Tenth street. The
service wss resumed today on all the
lines but the West side
Many Transienfs Caught
MANY out Of town guests who were
here Saturday night attending the
banquets given by the legislative
members and many transients who, ar
rived here Saturday Intending to take
the afternoon trains home were kept
here by the washouts on the roads un-
til late this afternoon before they
could secure a train out, including
scores OF students OF the A. and NJ
college who were returning from the
field meet in Oklahoma City.
Worse at Seward.
The food at Seward according to
farmers residing near there is six feet
higher than the food OF 1897 and they
claim that the reason that more did
not come to Guthrie Is because the
new railroad along the bottoms south
OF the city kept much of the water
back with their high embankments
acting as a dam in the bottom lands.
Some OF the farmers in the vicinity Of
Seward claim that the bottoms are
covered for mile on each side of the
river there today
Gas Company Crippled.
The Guthrie Gas company is badly
crippled by the food as $4,000 gallons
Of crude oil from which they manufac-
ture the artificial gas escaped IN the
curren4 as the oil tank is near the
rivers edge, and they managed TO
save only enough to last twenty-four
hours II the railroads can not trans
port some here from Cleveland before
that time the city will be without gas.
The engine room OF the plant was III
led with water and the plant was en-.
tirely surrounded by the back water
Damages City Water.
Water Commissioner w. S. Spencer
Is busy Today trying 10 ascertain the
damageRto the city water mains and
plant The new big well in Island
park is cracked and the clear water
pit pump house was filed with mud
dy water The water raised within
foot OF coming into the pump house
and the yard OF the station was cover
ed withs water yesterday
Oil Mills Damaged
All three of the city's oil mills were
damaged by the Hood. the cotton seed
IN the seed house being wet The
Farmers Union on Mil on South
Tenth street had water In its engine
room and some cotton stored was
spoiled and the seven acre sight on
which the plant is built was under
water.
The w. H. Coyle Cotton mill was
surrounded with water the only dam
age being to the office rooms and the
cotton seed house and cotton gin. The
HOughton and Douglas Cotton Oil mill
located on the Hagan farm on the
banks OF the Cottonwood river Is in
very bad condition. water being In
an the buildings. the damage to the
buildings and machinery can not be
ascertained at this time.
Water in Foundry.
The Southwestern Iron Foundry
was damaged some by the food. the
engine room being partially filled with
water and there being water in all the
buildings. five inches stood in Man
ager Martendales office this morning.
Cotton Mills Damaged. hi
The Pioneer Cotton MINIS suffered
loss by the food also, there being
much water in the engine rooms to-
day and much cotton in storage IN the
warehouse was wet IL Is thought
that the machinery was not damaged
TO amount 10 any thing.
Guthrie Laundry Company Under
Wates.
Manager Chas Pond of the Guthrie
Steam Laundry announces that there
was ten feet OF water in the basement
OF his plant yesterday The coal and
wood yard of Ned r Cheadle was fun
Of back water yesterday
Notes.
Frank p Beamer the West side
groceryman, had an accident yester-
day while driving a buggy across the
swift current on Fifth street In an ef-
fort 10 cross the Noble avenue bridge.
and his buggy was upset but he final
~ managed % swim out with his horse
leaving The buggy upside down at the
bottom of Fifth street channel.
Thousands of Guthrie citizens
thronged the shores of the Cotton
wood river yesterday watching the
Else OF the riyfF. standing together
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