The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-27
Reported Ten Miles Beyond Clinton
Early This Morning and Was
Expected to Reach Car
negie Tonight
NO GROUNDS FOR
The WILD RUMORS
No Great Damage Results So Far
from Rampage Farmers Nov
ing Stock to Higher
Ground

NHlchdSHa mas Deen waiting iOr sew
eral days to be washed away by the
Washita river, but as yet the river
continues to flow sereneTy along as
| any self-respecting river would do al
ways keeping within its banks, drown
| ing no stock, washing away no bridges,
threatening no destruction at this
point, but from above still continue
more or less wild reports of its dam
pages, and in the midst of these flood
reports. all Chickasha can do is to
wait.
The river here is bank full and this
morning at 10 o'clock was flowing
three feet, two inches over the dam
at the power house of the Chickasha
Gas and Electric company. This fig
ure is two inches lower than it was
yesterday, but a rise of two inches
over the figure at midnight last night.
That there is a big rise coming down
is continually reported from points far
above. but just when it will reach
Chickasha would take mathematical
calculation as long as a well rope, for
the Washita is as crooked as a barrel
OF corkscrews and the water must
needs follow somewhere near the
fixed channel. Could it cut across
country, as the crow flies" the story
would be different and a map might
be of some avail in the calculation.
But consideration Chickasha to Ana
darRo the course of the river is said
TO cover some 135 miles and from all
reports. Is equally as winding above
that point.
Farmers and stock men along the
river have in many cases emulated
the safety first movement and trans
ferred their cattle, hogs and other
stock to higher ground. for any natur-
alist will tell you that a hog is wont
to give better imitation of subma-
rine than duck when he encounters
body OF water larger in proportion
and of greater depth than his favorite
mud puddle.
Reports have grown to such an ex-
tent as to have flown to the realms of
fiction, yet to be believed by some
One Chickasha man last night heard
-.
miles wide and was sweeping every
thing before it. Today he kept his
children from school and assembled
his family at central point from
where he could remove them at a mo-
ment's notice. He had picked the top
story of the city hall as the probable
place of refuge in the event that the
worst came to worst
Information by telephone this morn
ing from Clinton, and which is doubt
| less authentic, is to the effect that
| the river at Strong city and Harmon
is mile and quarter wide and has
| washed away considerable telephone
] property. No railroad bridges were
reported out in that section and the
damage done was thought to be small.
At 10 O'Clock Clinton reported that the
rise was then about ten miles above
| that point and that the river was al
ready bank full
A telegram from Carnegie, Okla,
said. ''The Washita river is on six
foot rise. 1t is slowly falling at Chey-
enne. The rise is figured to reach here
late this afternoon. Very high water
| is expected
Anadarko had nothing of especial
interest to report except that the river
was practically bank full They had
the report that at Fort Cobb, some
miles above, the Washita was spread
ing out over the bottoms; but tele
phone message to that point proved
that the river was still within its
banks and cutting few capers AT An
adarko and Clinton it was reported {
few inches lower than yesterday.
There was practically no change re
ported in the condition of the Cana
dian river. The Rock Island bridges
at Minco and Bridgeport were still