Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-22
BRAVE FIGHT
WITH DEATH
Man and Son Contest With
Devils Creek For
Human Life
.RECORDHIGH WATER REPORTED
Water From Mississippi and
Ohio Creeping Over
Adjacent Lowlands.

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ST. Louis, March 22-Snow and
rain which fell yesterday and last
might has demoralized transportation
and wire communication in Illinois
and Missouri. A heavy wind added
greatly to the damage.
Taylorville and Jacksonville, Ills,
are in the grasp of the worst sleet
storm in years. Public utilities have
been crippled and TaylorvilIe is com
pletely isolated. The Missouri river
at this point is higher than it has
been at any time for two years, and
is raising at rate that causes alarm
among farmers in the bottoms.
Record Rise.
Cairo, His, March 22.-High water
mark was reached here at 45.4 feet.
Water from the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers began creeping over the low
lands of Illinois, Missouri and Ken
tlicky. 1t is predicted that the water
will reach Al feet
Relief Expected.
Plttsburg, March 22-The crest of
the food in the Ohio river caused by
the rapid rising of the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers was reached here
today when the stage was PSI feet,
almost two feet less than the weather
bureau predicted Many small streams
throughout western PENNSYLVANIA and
eastern Ohio are flooded and much
damage has been done but relief from
the unusual conditions is expected be-
fore the day is over.
A Brave Deed.
UnlontoWn, Pa, March 22.-William
H. Mcdowell, an aged mountaineer,
owes his life to the heroism of Chas.
Hardy, neighbOr and John Hardy, his
10 year old son. Awakened today by
cries for help the elder Hardy went
to the door of his mountain home and
saw McDowell's cabin floating down
DEVILS Greek, which had been a rag
ing torrent
1t had swept McDowells cabin away
as the old man lay asleep. A short
distance below the Hardy home the
stream plunges 100 feet into an abyss
floored by sharp, jagged rocks,
On the Brink of the Falls.
Towards this cataract and certain
Death fiOated the cabin while McDow-
ell kneeled in the doorway, alternately
praying for deliverance and calling for
help. Hardy dashed unclad along the
bank and plunged into the icy waters.
Hardy reached the cabin and then
with an arm about his neighbor struck
out for the shore. The racing torrents
swept him nearer and nearer the falls
despite his efforts to reach the bank
Exhausted and ready to give up he
heard the whirr of a rope thrown to
them by John Hardy the son. The eld-
or Hardy seized and slipped it about
his shoulders. To the boys horror
the current was so swift he could not
ha II the men in. The three men were
! dragged along until the two in the
water We're within a few yards of the
/ falls. The boy finally was able to
| hitch the rope about a tree and was
thus enabled to drag the two men to
shore. The boys hands were lacer-
ated and his body was bruised and
! bleeding as a result of the fight among
the rocks and brush When the older
| Hardy and the aged recluse at last
climbed up the steep bank they found
that the boy had tainted.
| Misejssipni Still Risipn
| Davenport, Ia, March 22,-The
Mississippi River rose another foot
| since yesterday, making a total of
! four feet in as many days.