Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-04

the roof These people would catch
the light line, pull over heavier one
and a pulley and set up running line.
of cable by making fast to q chimney
or house tower
"The boys must have known some
thing about brooches buoy work for asI
soon as they had line to a house.
they would rig up chair and pass III
over. Then the people would be haul,
ed across. guess they must have
taken more than 100 off the different
roofs. One woman. who weighed more
than 200 pounds, started across In al
chair. The pulley was fastened to a.
chimney and the chimney toppled over.
The woman went into the water, but
they kept hauling her In and she chung
to the chair. She was half drowned,
when they got her up.
Take Refuge In "Frat" Houses.
"The men students have responded
nobly in time of distress, and the Phil
Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, and Beta Theta
Pi fraternity houses, which are ons
hills, have been turned over for sleep
ing places for women and children. A.
Mr.. Houseman and Mr.. Sulliver
manned the boats sent down by the
life saving station at Toledo, and,
saved fifteen persons. The students
are doing practically all of the work
Of saving people and bringing what
food there is to the starving men,
women and children.
"The property loss in the city, not
counting personal property, is over
100000. There is danger of fire,
because the goods are using candles
for lights.
1--WE know of thirteen deaths: Mr.
and Mrs Frank Melcher and their two
sons, Ralph, years old, and Lewis, A.
years old; Mrs Silas Smith and hers
two sons and one little daughter, y
year old; Miss Hazel Jones, a 15-year-
old girl; Miss Hazel Dunlap, Mrs Slos-
son, William Hessey, William Fieldingl
and James Maine.
Dies After Being Rescued.
William Fielding chung to tree
for three days and was rescued onlya
to die of exposure A Mr.. Rainer wass
marooned in the top of tree for,
three days and a half and was res
cued. He is now i'll from exposure'
and it is thought he will get pneu-s
monia.
"A little girl was picked up from a,
raft on which she had foated five
miles from Stratford. She is i'll Of
exposure, but it is believed, she will
live"
Other Refugees Arrive.
Every train that came in from the
east brought men and women who had'
escaped from Indiana after arduous,,
roundabout trips and disheartening,
delays. Perhaps none of these refu-
gees had a more exciting experience
than that of Frank Jameson. con-
mercial traveller of Muncie, Ind
For thirty-six hours Jameson was,
marooned with eighty-five other men.
and women guests and employees Of
the Barnett hotel m Logansport. The
basement and first floor were flooded.
water standing eight feet deep in the
Office. All there was to eat was some
corned beef and coffee, which one Of
the women heated over a small gaso-
line stove In the basement, under
water, was $3,506 worth of fine food
which could not be reached.
Wednesday afternoon man rowed
down the street near the hotel and
Jameson hailed him. He had only
--~n o~I y, o~.- rxvo r0ov,, For IN
passenger. Jameson offered him $1OH
to be ferried out of town and the
boatman accepted the offer. No one
else in the hotel dared risk the trip,
feeling safer in the building than
adrift on the waters, but Jamiesont
climbed out Of the second story win
dow and took a seat in the boat.
Five Miles In Row Boat.
1--WE rowed for five or six miles, II
should think" said Jameson, in de-
scrfbing his experience. "The waterI
gradually grew shallow and finally Il
debarked in a field, where / was about
knee deep in mud and water. / got Al
farmer to drive me few miles fur
Their on, where caught train at al
crossing of the steam and interurbans
tracks.
CAS- the train was passing Warsaw
we saw horrible thing. A farmerf
was driving team attached to light
wagon He had a passenger, appar1
emily travelling man. and they waved,
at the train, which slowed down and.
was about to stop for them The
horses were knee deep In water and
the bed of the wagon Tapped the food
now and then. but they came on conf
fidently and seemed likely to make
the tracks in safety.
Suddenly, however. the wagon ANDY
horses disappeared from view. It
seemed as If they must have struck
a sinkhole or something, but the queer
part of it was that they didn't come
up. The train waited for ten minutes,
but not even bubble came to the sur