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Show Became Wealthy in Old Ajc, LIVES AND PROPERTY Remarkable Career of Capt. Ford, the Pioneer Plate c Manufacturer Business Success Achieved Alter Man's Allotted Span of Life, AWAY IN North Topeka oaid the Two risers Cities the Greatest Sufferers F ermine ooid Pestilence Threeterved Thrilling Description of Rescue Work at North Topeka. If this proves the case the losses will grow from day to day. The list of the known dead follows: Henry Jondan, colored; Ward, old son of soldier; Garrett, Fireman G. II. Garrett; Forest Kutz, teacher, Mrs. Forest Kutz, Louise Story, Infant of George M, Story; John L Adams; Mrs. Ida Montgomery, probably dead; unknown family of seven; unknown woman and child; four people seen to fall from trees by watchers at Sardou bridge; Mrs. Jackson, a widow, caught in her ous movi; g picture of difficult rescues. home; Henry l.udirgion of Oakland; Men, women and children were ta- John L. Adams; Mrs. Ida Montgomery; ken lroin tree branches, telegraph seven bodies repotted floating in tho poles, boxcars and roofs. What ap- water on the second floor of a house pealed to some of the police as aa al- In North Topeka. One of the most distressing features most ludicrous state of affairs was that In many Instances the rescuers of the situation now is the possibility had fairly to drag people into the that there will be a spread of contagiboats. Like horses huddled In a blaz- ous diseases. People of all classes are In houses not large hundred square miles ing stable, they seemed to fear to huddled together Twenty-fivon all sides they and for latter the leave their them, homes, although enough of the most fertile valleys of Kansas In most cases appeared unequal to the are surrounded by water. Doctors and and Missouri, Including populous cities, cannot reach sufferers covered with flood waters ranging task of stauding long against the medical relief extent. to flood. any great from one to forty feet In depth, a conA case of diphtheria was reported At Argentine. Kan., where the Santa tinuous sea. whose eddying and fast-rus- h s from the woolen mill In North Topeka, Ing surface was strewn with hu- Fe yards and buildings and wawhere there are a large number of are houses under thouof the of caracaases dwelling man corpses, the sands of cattle and horses and the ter and 4,500 people homeless, a num- children In addition to the adults. There Is also a ease or two of scarlet ruins of demolished houses or great ber of houses were washed away. The financial damage Is about as great now as It Is likely to become. Theie has been ro suffering In Kansas City beyond that sustained by the people driven from their homes. Excellent work was done by the local relief committees and those in control of this work are confident that the city will bo able to care for its own without calling upon the state. When the flood was at Its height the muddy, desolate expansion of the Missouri's surplus water, known as the "east bottoms, furnished a continu- . Sea-have- e two-third- .c k y t w ors were persistent, and many people were saved. Women and children were always given the preference, and there were of aged or many pitiful Incidents worn-ou- t men, who had been clinging to trees or hanging on to roofs for many hours, meeting with stern refusal from rescuers. The condition of most of the surThe strongest vivors was terrible. were reduced to utter weakness. The will power, the love of the father or the mother for the offspring In notable oases alone accounts for the survival of so many. No food for two (lays, and In some cases for three, hedged In between tho branches of trees or In small rooms or lofts In factories, houses and barns, no sound save that of the roaring flood, no hopeful view, but only the flashing of fire brands and a look into the murky, swirling water all a Intensified these circumstances thousand times combined to whiten hair in a night and to drive to distraction the coolest heads; The ardor of the workers was not abated by a cold drizzling rain. Citizens of every calling, the rich and the poor, donned oil skins and worked for hours in water up to their arm pits. An epitome of those few hours in Topeka Is found In the stories of the victims and their rescuers. The latter tell of the unutterable woe of the refugees, of the heartrendering cries for help, and, at times, of the plunge to a watery grave of people who gave up hope of relief when it was just at liand. The former, the people saved, are telling of the unexampled bravery of their rescuers. Testimony of remarkable deeds and of terrible incidents are not wantlrg. In some isolated Instances men showed the white feather. In nearly every case, however, by their actions they showed the material of which made.' true American manhood Is Women and children were given the precedence In the work of rescue. E. I Cowdry and his brother are among those who escaped from the flood. When asked for a story of his Oh, experience the former said: It was terrible; I cant describe It It seems as If I have lived In a horrible nightmare for the last two days. e saw that Early jon Thursday the water would bo high, but with the usual persistence, of people who dislike to leave their own homes, put off departure as long as possible. It came near being our undoing. Friday the whole of North Topeka, It seemed, overflowed within an hour. The water came creeping up faster than the people could get out. We were forced to leave in such a hurry that we could not even take a blanket. I am satisfied that our house was destroyed, as it was in the direct path of the fire. All I have In the world Is the clothing that I am now wearing. Hundreds of others are in as bad a condition as we are." There are innumerable Instances of distress. Hundreds who were rich are row poor and the poor people are In distress. Many lost absolutely everything. The savings of years were swept away by water. Now they have to the only the titl land, which can never uualn be occupied with any degree of safety or certainty of title. W. N. Keppard ami wife, two aged people, were saved. They were so numb that they could not feel, and had to he knocked down Into tho water before the men could reach them. They were standing rlu.--o together In the attic of a house, and so severe had thut their been their experience minds gave way under the strain. They cannot recover. their precarious Notwithstanding condition many of the sufferers held religious services in tho bidding where they were Imprisoned. It was a touching sight, the rescuers say, to see people of all walks of life bowed down In prayer together. Bridge Over Kansas River From Nordv Topeka Side. There Is considerable sickness, par- fever among the refugees on the north store buildings, has been the situation week. among the people who wero side. Hundreds of cases of measles the ticularly past curing Above the surface, here and there In forced to flee from Armourdale, and are prevalent Hntong the children, and on account of the exposed condition of Isolated spots In the rountry, but the hospitals are heavily taxed. the patients will result fatally in many thickly In the cities and towns, white cases. DEAD MANY TOPEKA. AT of out Improvised flags The physicians of the city, under the floated from second story windows, mute signals of distress warning res- Forty Lives Known to Have Been direction of the city health board, are Lost in Flood and Fire. making heroic efforts to cheek the cuers that people within were In danthreatened calamity. starvaor death are to have known lost of drowning by Forty people ger In floo.l and flames at the tion. their lives BRAVE FIGHT TO SAVE LIVES. Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., Topeka. Probably a third of these were the of other greatest are unidentified, and reports and Topeka. Kan., aufferers. In all sections where the iMidies being found are Minting In. The Eyewitness Tells of Deeds of Hero ism at North Topeka. people suffered from tho floods the mortuary list may reach fifty. The Kccncs at North Topeka when The Kansas river had fallen fourprlci or provisions leaped higher and teen Inches from the highest point Ihe flood was at Its height and the higher ns th call for food became 12 reached. r are to (lames were threatening; the deal rucmote urgent. Kg us. that had Report from 5u cents. Other to the a that the effut cents deen, rr'o itrinm at all the tion of ail lives ar.d property, ate thus edibles, especially fresh incuts and jsiint of gientest danger Is receding. described by an eyewitness: The day was one of unceasing labor vegetables. ro.'O In proportion and Experts declare It is low reasonably wire almost unobtainable at lamlne certain that the stage of extreme peril and of constant display of bruvory and unselfishness by hundreds and thouj Is plot. prices. The property loss will be fl.Ooo.ihio sands of citizen In nil walks of life. Muth of tins scarcity was due to the at leant. This Include damage of The first thought was to reach the flooding of gardens. stores ntsd packI lm were In meat Imminent reported that aU til IM'ti.o'io ia the residence section people ing hum., but It merchants whose stoiks weie ntt- of North Topeka, losnes by the rail- pi r!l. It was known that scores bad been touched by the floods combined and rend Mimpuuics of $200,000, and by of In out of their the Street raise prices to the places for Hallway Company perched Topeka agreed these losses varl-the- from thirty houts to three days withprodtiets to double and treble what ' ,f $75. not. wire before the coming of the (H manufacturing plant have been out food. The storle of those saved seriously damaged. It U Impossible as from such plight only colored the picflood. Siekttesa added It terror to the yet to figure out the total damage on ture of the human beings still making Recount of the ti. mutation of the land. their final fight against death. refugee suffering of the hometes The early hour were given over to from the lltusl dist riels. In Topeka an It Is also feared that not a few strucfever ture will give way under Ihe pressure the efforts of parties In rowboats to scarlet and measles of rpldentle aid the beleaguered. These endeav Is rife. Thieve were busy there and of the water. the Undaunted by at Katina City. which oltlelal braved awlft water with trepidation to rescue human life, the thieve floated about In boata. and bust-tieplundering deserted home house. The patrolmen were ordered to shoot cut sight any persona Been t" he stealing. For two nights the city was lu absolute darkness. 1 he flood prevented the opr nation of either gss or electric The water works, too, were plant a but down and the whole city at the mercy of any fire that limy break out. The people of Missouri and Kansas were not atone itt their miff ting. Thu Missouri tlvrr a well a the Kansas was In Hoed and all U trlhutaib from It sourte. Iowa and Nebraska Were deluged over wide null The great danger at Kansas City, a now tha tho w.ater lm subsided, ! the la' by rat' typhoid r' of city watr for tl.nhing. Tent crerled In City Hull paik Mil tn stir el In the heart of town over stmt amt manholes, l.auudih' Map of th Valley of tho Kama River, Showing tho Principal Points Mentioned down. ; j ( ttie-wa- y j - s y water-covere- s This city is the cradle of the plate-glas- s Industry of the United States, says an Albany (Ind.) special to the The first polIndianapolis Sentinel. manufactured in the ished plate-glas- s country is still in use In the front window of a New Albany clothing store. There are two plates, each about 6x14. Capt. John B. Ford, who erected here the first factory In the United States for the manufacture of and whose name polished plate-glas- s is a household word throughout Southern Indiana, is still living at 91 years of age, at Tarentum, Pa. He came originally from Kentucky, and located at Greenville, near here. He was a "natural born Inventor and Invented and manufactured a machine for chopping straw'. He soon moved to Now Albany, where he built steamboats. Ills attention was attracted by a little factory at Lenox, Mass., which was manufacturing a crude form of for skylights. He rough plate-glas- s set his wits to work and designed the first machinery for the manufacture This machinof polished plate-glass- . ery was made at New Albany foundries. He Interested his cousin, Washington C. De Pauw, a man of and they operated the first piate-glasmanufactory, which was a huge success, but they could not agree as to business policy, and Ford sold his Interest to De Pauw. Ford then established factories at Louisville and Jeffersonville, which failed. Capt. Ford's history from this time furnishes the most remarkable Instance cn record of a man building up an immense fortune In his old age. He was 78 years old when he started for New York, but was smooth-shavelarge-means- and looked much younger. have money enough to buy read ticket. He arrived in Ne y penniless, but his wonderful gnj organization enabled him to big New York capitalists, nished the money with which he! and put In operation two ttp J one f at turn and the. other at Crelghto Later he founded Ford city j miles east of Pittsburg, estab;-there a factory employing and during all modern accessories. four years ago he sold his fac(l'i which were all In his own plate-glas- s trust for HO.ijii' and he has been living In retlrJ since. ) He was the first man in the f States .to discover that natura l could be used as fuel for macula Ing purposes. He built his alongside a coal be pecting to use it for fuel. H!j men, In making soundings, dlscm not long In gas, and he ing tho new fuel and making it jjs work. In his long caieer of largo) ufacturing endeavors he never! a strike, because he always pa, highest wages that could be pi It Is difficult for) the business. Albany people to realize that tto man who left here without a pj borrowing money to buy his n ticket. Is now a is afflicted with cancer, which soon end his career. He has bit Greenville, Ind., his old home, cf the finest Methodist churches fc state, and his other bequests the last two years amounted ti A nan,-th- tub s ha-- ? , multi-millionair- e least d $300,000. Short Name Is an Advantage, I Of Very Great Practical Value if You Should Happt: Be a Presidential Cabinet Officer Abbreviations Generally Used in Signing Official documents. .tea fit qha ber of letters. Attorney General1 took the place of John W. Crl: gain of two letters, and Seed Moody followed John I). Lorg. il ot one letter. The five men li have two letters less in their t than the five men who prt The present cabinet Is made up of men with shorter names than any set of cabinet officials In many years. Five of the nine advisers of the President bear names of only one syllable each. These are Secretaries Hay, Root, Shaw, Postmaster General Payne and Secretary Attorney General Knox. Moody has not a long name; neither has Secretary Wilson. Secretary Hitchcock has nine letters and two u syllables in his name. Secretary has nine letters and three syllables. His Is the hardest of all the cabinet names to pronounce. All the others are plain. The predecessors of these men, however, did not have long names, and If the letters of all the men who immediately preceded them weie put together the results would bo almost tho same as at present in fact. Just one letter's difference. Secretary Hay succeeded Secretary Day, the same number of letters. Secretary Root succeeded Secretary Alger, a gain of one letter. Secretary Shaw took the plaee of Secretary Gage, the same number of letters. Mr. Payne came into the cabinet when Charles Emory Smith went out. the same nuin them. The valuu of a short name partmental work Is appre'latt heads of departments and The thousands of iIoto to bo signed daily make It tedious work to repeat a for. nature so often. In fact, bundle men hqve wished that they coird ) attained equal fame and Import under shorter names. It is near: ways the case that when a net r.ct offiter takes charge he will: by signing his name In lull. Ilk; jamin B. Smith. but ho will not this up long, and in a month will i reached the conclusion that Smith Is good enough for all t In some especial dor. papers. he may sign his name In the fuS-- ' he reserves that as a sortf; dal affair, like a Sunday k; f clothes. Cor-tclyo- gitu ;pra J this us ma s (or tas al Ij ani lam we ) tak to so feta not nui wli pic the ! as to otl act . ft its ;is fe In The Might ol a Lie, Tht Task of Overtaking an Untruth Has Well Been Descr a Hopeless One How Fabrication Wrecked Political Career of John G, Carlisle, most the Trobably Impossible, hopeless task oti earth Is to overtake a lie. The other day John G. Carlisle, now a successful lawyer for great corpoiuilons, with an home In North Washington square, passed along Pine street with tho easy gait of a plow horse. Two citizens saluted him ami when d he had on one remarked: There tisel to he the making of a president la that may. The r tit country looked up to him. If It had not been for his Cynthiuna speech the northern detnorracy would have been solid for him, and, of course, he owned the southern wing. The speech ruined him. He n tiled from imlltics with a broken heart and settled In New York to make a little money. Here Is nti ext not from that famous, spceh: "I deny that tlu United State Is a nation! It a vicious system that bus destroyed sovereign state and oppressed nine millions of psople In the south. It a state ha no right or secession she certainly ha no right of revolution, The most infamous order ever Issued wn that of the attorney general only a few day ago, which cauHcd sixty companies of sol ' down-trodde- rs and scalawag tin day will come when Suuti linn w ill rid hers-I- f of the hi' pnlitital buzzard of the fed on her cart as lor i; i year and robbed wfo blnck without dtuciiminntion.'' For ton years Mr. Carlisle ' run down that report of bn (V Speech, tint It hud too big ),! one tl ne lie thought It overt side tricke I, but several year-thTribune of this city r- - sum-Ithe original form, Mr. far! plained: "I did not say that t eri.mett Is a 'virions system.! at that time tho policy of the ration was. vicious; I nl.' that the cnnstitutloral right to did not exist; there wa non report of the speech, for no r was present; an opposition pit ked up from the audienr of want I stray recollection strung them together and F them." But the lie nrver and Cm lisle's hopes of 1111(111 were (lushed. t ' pu.-se- heart-rendin- diers to march to South Car lake charge of tho ballot be overawe tho voters of that state, the para.' , ; j I nrpet-hngg- i nor'-hav- e lt First Class In Grammar, Sti'j Johnny never did like s h' .i post-offic- there hi mother told him he M was a letter for her. study Id lesson nr hi leni,h'i Business or love letter?" Jokingly give him a hnd mark, he got Blame old ti arbor," h' Inquired tho clerk. Business." wa the reply, aeeom Think she knows It all f ptinlod by a blush of the deepest i rim tel u something and son. tell It hai k, she sny It A there wn no sut-letter tn he Why, what's the initH-r- . J found tho young lady took lo r depar- asked Ms uncle, who haui't k ture. h w n hoy himself, She came back, however, after a Well, you see, Nuuk v. It Hi tie while and said In fullering ac- way, 8 lie tohl Its that pm'l",r;' cent; 'Tleae, would von mind look-le- to pu off, Then i among the love Ml-- n" wtifo a onteore toiitalnl Well? The liiundiv lull tenqilnn with '.he I wrote, lkiy ! IctigUn-tdg day clothes wlittt Hey go In I in the Flood Dispatches. factories plate-glas- s s At the Poitoffice. A young woman called at the and hushfully Inquired If ipi-Ln.l- ' th-m- . i!1 if if t Mh in a i I i fr And 4a; - I ii til to g y. ine l"ge Jook li(k IMa iipr tii'V !Hj tube |