The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-09-08

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Thursday night " last week Bate
county was visited ~ one ofsthe hard
6 est rain storms and electrical SO, 4
81 the season. II IS estimsted tina
more than two inches Of water fell il
N i few hours and considerable damag.
sNas done ii some Ccaiities W wash.
ours, Mound Branch ID some place.
VA ont Of banks. But 50 sfar ii
learned little damage was done. The
\ lightning played havoc with tiie tcle.
\ phone lines and il was several days
before the lii,emen could get the sys.
u I. tem in good working order. 's
Friday morning about 3:3osas barn
on the G. j. Sells property, on West
Mil street was at on fire by lishr-
I ming and before the fire department
! could get there It was entirely de-
4 stroyed. A Chevrolet motor car was
! burned with the barn.
Some time during the night light
ming struck ! barn on the John Beard
farm seven miles east Of town, set
ring it on fire. 1t, together with its
contents, was a complete loss.
Friday the south bound passenger
train from Kansas City failed to ar
rive on account of washout near
Pleasant Hill. Some of the trains
were detoured by way of Sedalia and
Nevada.
Sunday evening a barn on the Ed
Bradley farm few miles southeast
was set on fire by lightning and de-
strcyed There was some grain and
implements in the barn, which burned
with it.
At Pleasant Hill Thursday night
and Friday morning the. storm was
more severe than in this vicinity.
Dispatches to the Kansas City papers
from there says:
Leroy Heron, World War vet
cran, was drowned at noon Friday, in
Big Greek, two miles south of Pleas
ant Hill. Heron was trying to take
4 mule across the stream, which was
flooded BY i rain earlier in the day
that practically amouated ITO rctoud-}
burst. He was unable to swim.
The deluge flooded ali the lowlands
south and east Of Pleasant Hill, and
converted Big Creek into a racing
stream in some places mile wide.
No accurate record of the amount is
available, but estimates place the rain
fall at from four to eight inches.
The flood has cut off the town from
the east and south. The waters ap-
preached almost to the main business I
section.
The quarter mile dam that impounds |
The hundred acres of water known as
Lake Baldwin has been broken and
all attempts to prevent further .crumb-
ling Of dirt and masonry have been
given up. At noon water was roaring |
through the center Of the dam in a
break Al least thirty feet wide. the
putpour rapidly eating away more o.
he fill and then crumbling the con-
cree fscing Of the dam which broke
lil1e 70 much glass after the dirt be-
hind had been washed out.
81 Baldwin Lake Is the source sof
Nater supply for Pleasant Hill and
lintske at the pumping statioa
u probably have TO be extended in n
IA 6sder to assure water for the town
hile the dam IS being rebuilt. Noi|
3imste Of the damage to t6e dam.
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