El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-02

names OF experts who submitted the
report and VIII summon them TO tes-
tify.
pounds was washed from the pulp mill
10 the main street district. The Buff
falo & SusQuehauna passenger station
was washed 800 feet away to mill
pond.
The railroads, roundhouse and coal
elevator were demolished. Overturned
engines set fire to the debris. The
railroad tracks are twisted mass OF
iron for half a mile above the village
and four miles below II.
Big Bill BuFneds
The big mill OF the Goodyear Lum-
Der company, which was dlsmanUed
three months ego in order that the
machinery might be used on Potato
creek, was burned. A big brick kiln
with 40 chimneys, collapsed as the
mill burned.
This is the last OF Austin" said one
Of the old residents. The town is
wiped out and there is no call for It
to be rebuilt as there is no more
lumber here for the big mills TO work
on"
Leg Ont Off With AK.
Some awful stories Of suffering are
told by survivors Of the terrible catas-
Mary Bleitz, an empIoye in the
counting room Of the paper ratory,
told in the hospital Sunday how Il
felt to have her leg amputated with
an ak
when suddenly there lurched through
the wall one OF the big pulp grinding
stones of the mill As I leaped aside
to avoid 10, the ceiling caved in and
the water followed and passed over
me. ResCuers found me later pinned
beneath the grinding stone. They tried
to extricate me but failed. The great
stone was too big 20 move and felt
as if should surely die there.
Get an ak and cut off my leg
told them. But no man would vol
unteeF. cut It off, pleaded. Z on
can stand it II I can
Chopped Off Leg,
u looked up and saw Joe Nenarge,
a friend Of mine, You do it. Joe, for
me- I pleaded. I was in awful pain
and nothing could be worse torture
than what was enduring. L can't
do that Mary he said 7 asked a big
man back Of him to do It, He picked
up the ak. BY the lantern light 1
saw the descending blade glisten.
think he chopped 1t four or five times
before they could pry me loose"
DR.. Ashcroft said the girl would re-
Laughed at Danger.
Mrs. Martha Kinnicut q restaurant
keeper, laughed when warned Of the
flood. A child was drinking g glass
Of soda. oh, let the kid finish her
glass" said Mrs. knniCut to a boy
who came running IN with the alarm.
A few moments later the store was
swept away. The woman and child
are missing,
The son Of Thomas Reese was sit
ting on the doorstep Of the house when
the flood came. Their house is on high
ground that escaped. His mother had
just darted out Of the door when she
saw her boy swept into the waters.
She plunged IN to save him when a
big Hungarian waded in and pulled
her out on the bank. Infuriated and
nerved with the nope that she might
save her boy, she turned back TO the
flood. She was restrained from plung-
ing in but in her efforts to do so her
clothes were torn from her body and
her arms broken. Her child was
drowned.
Drowned for Money.
Mrs II. Earhardt escaped from her
house. but turned back to get a hand
bag containing $50. she was drowned. /
Those of her party escaped. A curious
tight in the valley Just below Austin |
hday is a train of Buffalo & Susque-
knna cars loaded with coal Weighing |
Wndrea 7-'T'yaicH 4 had been car
tracks. Two I
2, forming an 4
the apex. Of 4
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