The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-04

being rolled along before the Cur
rent, carrying everything before
| them.
| Every fireman and every availabls
policeman was doing duty In the
stricken districts.
1t was late last night when State
street north Of Twelfth, got its bap-
tism Of flood.
Glendwood dam apparently had
broken some minutes before, for the
| waters swept down in wave OF
from one to three feet high,
Twenty-ssven Dead at Noon.
ERIE, Pa, Aug. 4.-With twenty
| seven bodies recovered from the de-
bris OF the greatest food this section
has ever seen, Coroner D. S. Hanley
at noon today stated that he feared
at least forty to sixty persons had
persisted Seventeen OF the twenty
seven have been identified. Rescuers
are finding additional bodies as they
delve into the wreckage that blocks
the streets.
Hundreds Of properties were swept
away or partially damaged, some of
them large mercantile establishments.
The property loss, however, Mayor w.
SehsSo, -.
100000. He has made a public ap.
peal for money to succor the families
that are distressed.
Catching Bodies In Nets.
GBy United Press Staff CORRESPOND.
net.J
ERIE. Pa, Aug. +Ninet bodies
| have been taken at one o'clock this
afternoon from the tangled wreckage
Of the flood which swept through the
| streets OF Erie last evening,
Each hour Of the day from one to
three corpses have been uncovered
by the volunteer workers who are
struggling in the midst Of heaped M
debris lining the course of Mill creek
| through the center of the city,
| There are now sixteen bodies In
the coroners morgue and three more
in another morgue.
Coroner D. s. Hadley estimates
now that from thirty to fifty lives
were lost. The estimate of property
| damage stands at s3,OO0,O 900.
Mill Creek, down the valley OF
which the flood burst, empties into
Lake Erie mile from the center Of
the city. At Its outlet to the lake,
searchers with nets are recovering
the bodies OF the dead as tfeJ float
out into the lake ON the ebb 81 the
flood.
Mayor Stern. of Erie. acted prompt
~ Tor the relief OF his city. The arm
DRY OF the national guard has been
thrown open and four hundred home.
less people are being housed
The state militia COMPANY has heen
ordered out to patrol the flooded Sec
ton.
A public dining room to feed the
homeless was opened at noon nv the
mayor In the building of the Erie
Herald
Local citizens are raising a relief
fund and the merchants of Erie have
drawn upon their own stocks for
clothing shoes and supplies for the
destitute.
The tracks of the New York Gem
trail railway and the Nickel Plate rail.
way were washed away at Wesleyville.
three miles east of Erie Crews OF
| four hundred men worked for fifteen
hours restoring one Of the four tracks
of that road and trans-continental
trains were moving shortly before 10
O'Clock this morning. BY that time
twenty through trains were congested
on either side of -Four Mile Creek
near Wesleyviile. The east bound
twentieth century train was In the
number.
Traffic cannot be resumed on the
Nickel Plate under ten days. In
places the track is washed away and
overturned for quarter Of a mile.
Nickel Plate trains will use New York
Central tracks.
Two thousand men were employed
this afternoon in clearing the mrd
and muck which covered most of down
town Erie. Lime and other disinfec.-
ants were distributed
Live wires have fallen in the down.
town streets, adding to the horror of
the food.
During the night the flood finally
reached the power plant Of the Edison
company and from then On the city
was in total darkness. The fool
swept the gas mains out OF several
streets and the town is without gaa.
The Totman Carriage works are
nearly a total loss. The Leemhuis
Carriage and Automobile works were
destroyed.
An August Blizzard.
NEW YORK, Aug. A storm Of
mid-winter intensity with rain almost
as cold still ragged in New York early
today after a night of wild weather
that wrought considerable damage
here and at other coast points.
Six members OF fishing boats crew
reached shore safely at Side Park, N
j. but their captain, Axen Jacobsen
/ of Belmar, was drowned.
| Her seams ripped by the pounding
sea on Brigantine Beach, where she
had grounded, the schooner Tartar
crumbled to pieces shortly after the
captain of the little Egg harbor life