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Show THE HEPPNER DISASTER. One Hundred and Thirty Bodies Recovered Re-covered and Seventy Missing. The work of burying the dead who lost their lives in the terrible calamity calam-ity Sunday evening at Heppner, Ore., has progressed steadily, and Tuesday evening 130 bodies had beem recovered recov-ered and buried. At least seventy more are missing, and at this time the most reliable estimates, place the number of dead at 200. The scene from the hillside overlooking over-looking the town is one of desolation. Huge piles of wreckage, in many places fifty feet high, fill the canyon for half a mile below the own. As the debris, which is covered many feet by mud, is cleared away, more bodies are found. Immense boulders weighing weigh-ing tons were rolled along by the flood and deposited in the midst of the town or lodged against buildings. One hundred and fifty of the best residences were swept from the face if the earth. Trees and every stand- Ing thing was raised and uprooted, ejaee The debris is piled along the railroad track to the height of freight cars. Among the other incidents of the terrible catastrophe, was the saving of three lives by Julius Keithly, 70 years old, who rode one mile and a half on the roofs of houses and pulled in three people from the flood. Jim Kern, the Oregon Railway & Navigation agent, met his death at-the at-the telegraph key trying to raise Portland Port-land to inform the outside world of the impending calamity. His little daughter Katy, who was saved by remaining re-maining in the station' house, saw her father and mother lost in the whirl of mad waters. One of the most thrilling adventures was that of Tom Shuter, who. with his family, was carried down stream In his house for a mile and a half. His wife and two boys stayed in the upper rooms. Below town the house was shot across the current to the west side, where it lodged in the debris 150 yards from the canyon bank. Shuter then took his two little ones on his shoulder and swam 200 yards in the boiling torrent, contending with obstructions. ob-structions. He landed the children and then struck out for the house for his wife and rescued her. |