Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-09
to roomIng house for the rest Of the

home. AS IT raincd hard all night
Sunday and part of yesterday, the fur
niture on the sidewalk was damaged
and was also injured In moving 1t so
rapidly. The floors are drying out and
the things left in the house seem to
ne all right. Today the magpie is back
on the front porch again, Two by
ISLANDERS were looking at the ravages
of the water from the sidewalk, one
OF them remarking, What a wrecki''
Maggie looked up screwed up one eye
and shouted in echo, What a wreck"
such an expression before, but doubt
less appreciated the situation as she
spent Sunday night and part of Mon.
day on the sidewalk with the furni-
iure. where she was Snugly covered
up.
Mr.. Belcher, who lives In a shack
back OF Mr.. Chafee, was either not
warned or did not understand the
gravity of the situation. because by
the time he aroused the water was a
foot and a half deep on the floor,
and his trunk was already afloat He
waded out to safety and the house
still stands but that Is about all
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Kreder live near
the railroad bridge AT low estimate
the loss is about 5000. While the
mouse is on piles and is so much
higher than any of the other buildings.
that the water did not enter, the gar
den is utterly destroyed A fine vege-
table garden is under several feet of
water storage building was swept
by a stream of water two feet high,
damaging tools and injuring clothing
in trunks, and leaving a deposit of
reddish mud on the floor. The cellar
was full to the ceiling, the water
running out of window near the roof.
| The water still stands In It almost
| to the top Here were all Mrs. Kre-
| der's jellies and jams. which are doubt
| less spoiled, although they were on
very high shelves. Outside the front
lawn has a thick coating of mud and
| the flowers are drabbled and pressed
into The mud. The walks have been
| lifted and deposited in places every
| where but the right-some of them
being across the road at the neigh.
| bors. Part of the yard was piled sew
eral feet deep with fences, walks drift
| wood and more mud. The water wash
ed through the front yard some five
feet across the road. 1t was certain.
ly discouraging situation TO see such
| pretty grounds devastated.
| At Mrs. Shirmer's the situation ap-
| peared even worse. The lady lived
across the road from Mrs. Kreder and
was i'll at the time the flood occurred.
| Fortunately her son was In the house
at the time, and removed his mother
to the hospital, where Miss Shlrmer is
head nurse.
The water seems to have been par
| tcularly powerful. caused it would
seem by large pile of pipes stacked
on one side which prevented the widen
ing OF the stream at that point and
turning II toward the house 1t enter
ed by the front door and went out of the
back. through some, four rooms. Ev-
erywhere IT left thick coating OF mud
on carpets, linoleums, mats and rugs.
Outside, the front fence is torn out
and part of the yard buried to a depth
1 nj O mi fnttr ,x,tt
big logs, drift, pieces of buildings
vegetables, flowers and miscellaneous
articles battered and torn by the wa.
ters. The pretty front flower garden
Is n sorry sight, with It's draggled bios.
some and a load of rubbish and mud
being deposited on the front porch
To the rear of the house, heavy logs
and drift have torn up some of the
large fruit trees the fruit being still
on them. The vegetables are there
what there is left of them, and big
holes are dug in the soil, which is de
posted in other places about the lawn
and yard. The cellar is full to the
roof, wash boiler full of eggs being
buried beneath several feet of water
The chicken houses were badly dam
aged and many of the chickens drown,
ed although Mr.. Shirmer saved a NUN.
ber by wading for them. In another
place in the garden the new potatoes
are exposed and the cabbages are
some of them torn up by the roots.
All in all II is scene that can hardly
be appreciated unless perceived.
The Porter Fuel company Will be
out of commission so far as shipping
coal is concerned for ten days or two
weeks. High water and drift wood
changed the current and new chan.
mel was formed. making an island of
the stables, powder house and office.
| The mules were taken out and turned
| loose before the water became too
high to ford Then the railroad track
Loading to the mine from Hesperus is
mostly washed out also the bridge
across the river at the mine. Today
Superintendent Mason with force of
men is dynamiting the dam caused by
drift wood in order to turn the stream
back into regular channel The loss