Show SEVENTEEN MORE LIVES ARE LOST Awful Result of Saturdays Flood at Seneca DONE IN AN INSTANT VATER A MILE WIDE AND TEN FEET DEEP Lost Creek Transformed from a Lit tie Stream a Dozen Feet Wide to an Ocean of Water that Pushes Everything Before It Houses Picked Up Thrown Against Each Other and Then Washed Away Death and Horror on Every Hand NEOSHO Mo June Seventeen lives were lost in Saturdays flood at Seneca The property loss was between be-tween 70000 and 100000 A complete list of dead Is as follows H Andrea Airs Andrea and three children Carl Schmidt Mrs Schmidt and five chil dren Mrs Harry Robinson and one child Willie Dobbler a child Archie Williams a child Mrs Henry White wife of the pastor of the 11 E church The deluge which spread over dry lad in an instant was a mile wide and a much as ten feet deep For three weeks the surrounding country ha been soaked with rain At midnight mid-night Friday the rain beat on the earth like a cataract At 330 persons saw in the blinding electricity the rush of a black wall of water following the channel of Lost creek which flows through town I was about 330 oclock in the morning that it appeared ap-peared They fired their pistols and shouted hi futile warning and the next instant they were tossed about like chips In ten minutes Lost creek was trans ormed from a little stream a dozen feet wide to an ocean of water that pushed > everything before i The waters wa-ters made their banks of hills on each side of Seneca and then spread out as the valley widened until the angry torrents melted into a large sheet of water ankle deep or went on into Grand river Houses beat against each other and were torn to pieces Death and horror raged on every hand amid the inky darkness I was over in a few minutes almost before the struggling people could realize whether it was nightmare or reality Then amid the receding waters which hurled about the wreckage of their homes began the hunt of husband for wife and parents for children and chil dren for parents The cries of mother quickly and wailing of children followed Since then the villagers have been busy recovering their dead Only mea gre and fragmentary details have found their way to the outside worfd Nothing wa known about the disaster until a farmer rode into Neosho with unt the story at noon Saturday and until today was obtainable nothing like a connected account I |