Show THE HE GREAT FLOOD I l AT HEPPNER ORE fl i 1 s five lye Ive Hundred People Are Its lis Victims I I IMMENSE WALL W ALIJ OP OF WATER W I I ill Ih I Co mine lo lio f that dial No Ole lid Time to 10 Ilce FIte Iee for or Horror iii Portland Or Juno 15 The city of at r In Morrow county count this Flute Rinn hilA UI been beell visited MINI by hy a II Hood the th city oily Rs J In the entire I and MO roO O or ot tho the 1260 vho resided In III thu tho town aru aro Itlie drowned In the tho rush of ot or dashed to death against I the thu ork bluff The calamity occurred o at ut C G last evening when u IL wall of ot uter 10 O feet teet high rushed rushell down the gulch gulchIn In 11 which Heppner Is l situated and rill cur curried ried everything It II The Thu Hood loud with such uch suddenness that the th i Inhabitants were WI ire IO unable to 10 geek seck places v ct or safely suret ud were carried down own to death by b the awful rush of oC water 1 Almost the entire residence portion bf the tho town was va wiped out ani but hUI some t escaped Hugh Hush L weighing a rt ton were vere carried down by hy I the torrent and many people were killed by b being dashed the if rocky bluff c Early Karly in the tho afternoon a I thunder j torin occurred covering n a wide region reglo I 1 pf rt r country and later a u heavy Iway ruin Ill In t Florin ret In many man of or the tho small their banks In an on 11 short time BrIdges were swept II In like straws and the darkness of oC the night soon Foon made mude the lie situation moro mole i As s ll lOn ns as possible after the tho terrible Hood subsided tho thu work et cf f was commenced by b the of ot the town tow 11 Dozens of ot bodies were wore found lodged all nil niong the bends of ot the i and In Veral places were wore piled over oer one an nn other U to 2 this 00 oo bu let ha been becH recovered almost Within tho city ell lImIts The buildings which were not carried away awny were ver moved tram from their lions or 01 toppled over r Hundreds of ot rattle cattle hor hore es sheep hl p and hogs hails that had jone Into the creek Ct ek bottoms for tor water perished News New of ot the calamity did ild not reach roach the tho outside out world until this thin morning of lit communication having heen neen cut off alT As Am soon ns us possible news Wan sent Rent by h courier to nearby towns measures looking to the time relief of the stricken people were wele commenced Time The Oregon Ore gall Hallway Navigation compan iP ny started n u relief t train from ruin Me fhe If he Caller Dallet shortly after noon with a ti party flarty of or zoo Including three doctors tour lour GO ro horse blankets and sup Mies 1113 of lit oil uil kinds At ui 1 30 this a II relief relle train With doctors und nod supplies started for the scene acene from this city The fhe citizens f tf pt Portland a II relief relict fund ns as Koon floon ns as the n news wn of ot tho the disaster spread DIer v r the city and within a n few tell hours was raised Supplies SupplieR will be rushed to Heppner as U soon lIoon as they can cun I l Le Ix e assembled Heppner Is the county seat neat of ot Mor lor tow 3 ow county and contained 1260 1250 people It U is the center of at a n large I farming arming ant an country J The rhe town Is built on the banks of ot Wil low creek In the neighborhood nel h of ot the Converging point of or four other moun tn lain n streams that drain a I large of ot rolling roiling and hilly hili country that reaches irom three to 20 miles to the foothills kin along the course of ot Willow creek Jt Itself elf for tor a n distance of or 25 miles to the base wase of at the Ulue Blue mountains To the west wesl and enst east of or the town running southwest and re reo until they empty into Wll Vl low Jow creek aio am two ISef dee gulches which un back some three miles among time the Too foothills hills as nR they narrow to form forum the valley In which the th town Is located J owing almost t south Houth to the and Joining but bUI a or I BO pa o above the town Is In Balm Halm creek reek which In n Us its courne coure to the tho foothills n a distance or of 15 mIles a wille region of Dt hili hilly Country Next comes the he main watercourse creek with an 1111 Immense area of oC that northeast for tor a n distance of or 2 miles to the th Blue noun moun taloN Farther Asi four tour miles is R Hm Ilin ton creek that runs run parallel Kith Willow Illow creek for ti II distance of or 20 niles having Its 1111 rise In the foothills ad entering Into the most t easterly gulch u Il m few tew tulles miles II eH south of ur Heppner Time The major pait of ot tho time business und and residence section of or the town lies to tho the west of Ut the tho creek In III n it low bottom cov COl covering 00 ering an 1111 urea of or about 1500 1600 by 1200 feet Word was Willi received here from lone Jono late this afternoon that rollIns Wore were needed ed nt at once mimics at The rime woo well weather ther timer Is IH hot It In Is necessary nN that tho tim dead should be ho burled at ut once One Olle Onehundred I hundred collins were sent on by tho the Oregon Railway Navigation overland tonight and more will be to sent from remit The rho Dulles Dillies and from tram The Portland of ot the Oregon Ii Navigation company thU afternoon the following mes sage room via sia Ia Itou estimated almost nil oh the tho people living on the tho banka of ot Willow Willowcreek creek cre k drowned Need relief reller In iii shape shall of ot ota ofa a n large body of ot men to help hell clear away Ava debris ond recover bodies haste Hasto Is Iser Iser very er essential aa us the weather Is turn tOni turnIng log Ing warm unit and tho dead must be re me recovered covered before putrefaction nets Rolli In Damage 1 to 10 track unknown further titan than 10 miles below here which to tot t lie I point Is In more than two thirds out Agent Kernan and wife are arc presumably dead 1511 us itS they have hao not yet et been found Depot und and all nil loaded and a empty curs IUS stilt still Intact but the yards nr 11 me IlIO away UWAY Another tier In Washington Wn July IB The reply of at atthe oft the lie t fourth assistant po to the tile letter lettel re me regarding garding the lie I Tulloch charges together with certain exhibits relating to the I ion of ot the he t Washington ton post i will be given out for publication i Thursday morning reports r were I taken to tho time White House today by b Payne who wIlli dis them with the president First Assistant and amid Supt Metcalf of at the mooney money mone order service gave a II hear hearing hearIng ing lug today to 10 representative of ot two riVal bidders for the contract of at print printing lug ing money orders Counsel for tor or Wyn Wn Wynkoop koop New ew who ho bid timid and who have hae had hilt the contract fur for years contended that the tile lowest bidder r Paul Herman of ot N No NJ NJ J who sun ho bid could coul not do the work for tor that thai amount and that thit having hallIg no plant he would have hAo to sublet the thi III In contravention of at the law Hermans counsel admitted that he had hall mi plant but guaranteed to establish nn mn Quo one Immediately Immediate He lie of at offered I trod to furnish humid bond In III IllI amount to 0 Guarantee the work No decision wag vas reached I |