Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-04-11

the ugQC line, pull over n heavier Ouo
and a pulley and set up running line
Of cable by making fast to a chimney
or house tower
"The boys must have known some
thing about breeches buoy work, for as
soon as they had line to house
they would rig up a chair and pass 1t
over. Then the people would be haul
ed across. l guess they must have
taken more than 100 of the different
roofs. One woman, who weighed more
than 200 pounds, started across in a
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 Phi
Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, and Beta Theta
Pi fraternity houses, which are on
hills, have been turned over for sleep
ing places for women and children. A
Mr.. Houseman and a 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.
''rhe 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, 4
years old; Mrs Silas Smith and her
two sons and one little daughter, l
year old; Miss Hazel Jones, 15-year-
old girl; Miss Hazel Dunlap. Mrs. Slos-
son, William Hessey, William Fielding
and James Maine.
Dies After Being Rescued.
william Fielding chung to a tree
for three days and was rescued only
to die of exposure. A Mr.. Rainier was
marooned in the top Of a tree for
three days and half and was res
cued. He is now i'll from exposure
and 1t is thought he will get pneu-
monia.
"A little girl was picked up from q
raft on which she had floated I'VE
miles from Stratford. She is i'll of
exposure, but 1t 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 more exciting experience
than that of Frank Jameson, COM
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 In 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 $500 worth Of fine food
which could not be reached.
Wednesday afternoon a man rowed
down the street near the hotel and
Jameson hailed him. He had only a
small skiff and there was room for one
passenger Jameson offered him $40
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 Jameson
climbed out of the second story win
dow and took seat in the boat.
Five Miles In Row Boat.
1--WE rowed for five or six miles,
should think" said Jameson, in de-
scribing his experience. "The water
gradually grew shallow and finally
debarked in a field, where l was about
knee deep in mud and water. got a
farmer to drive me few miles fur
Their on, where caught train at a
crossing of the steam and interurban
tracks.
"As the train was passing Warsaw
we saw a horrible thing. A farmer
was driving team attached to light
wagon. He had passenger, appar-
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 flood
now and then. but they came on con-
fidently and seemed likely to make
the tracks in safety.
Suddenly, however the wagon and
horses disappeared from view. II
seemed as if they must have struck
a sinl:nole or something, but the queer
part of it was that they didn't come
up. The train waited for ten minutes
but not even a bubble came to the sur
face Of the pool where the men ant
horses had disappeared. 1t was a ter
.rible thing, and several women on tn,
train who saw it became hysterica
and were restored with extreme difh
Guilty."
Insanity and Suicide.
At Brookville. where the loss of life
is estimated at 20 to So insanity and
suicide followed in the wake of the
food. Five parents who had seen
their children drowned or who feared