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Show OinUFUL AT 9HAWNEBTOWN tMter fire and lmprlf ltnnil Ion JtrtariuiaHeallnn (tle Warte. Ilklgeway, III , April " "thawnee-town, "thawnee-town, flood awept, I thrf-atened with total deatnietton InniooTtble more lire may be lott before another day Hat patted Hundred nf people I are not yet been reMaed from the h In which they were Imprisoned otlurt are atlll In the trte top and atlll other are afloat on tho watte of the torrent I.ate report, tty the rntire If rce will hedrttrnyed and erery frame houte In town It certain lo be datl ed to plecct The nlnd la blowing thirty fire mllet an hour, with rain tlat cut like glatt (Irrat fear I e xprrMed for the reoeue force now In Hhannettonn a nothing can rcaltt the p-mrr of the ware dathtng ten feet high under the linpetu of the gale If II e ttormdnet not reato, the rntire town It doomed, a well at tnottof tho onle who hare not yet reached the hilltop. Thl In formation comet by telephone from the temporary ttatlon on the hllltldea went of Hhawnee town There la no meana of estimating the number drowned All the relief work laderotcd lo retelling people from the top nf tree, brick houte and high knoll The lott of life I largely among colored people whote light frame atrueturet gare nay at the time time when the wall of water atruck llicin, glrlng them no chance to ct caie About S o'clock latt evening the lerce on the north aide of town gare away nt the north end of Market treet, near the court houte An opening open-ing ten feet wide wa at lint made, hut It ipilckly aprrad to twenty and a wall of water ten or filler n feet high poured through the main etreet, weeping everything before It About fifty ttnall frame houte along the Hue of the lerce to the aouth were crnthed like loya, and none of the occupant, moat of whom ware poor colored folk, eicaped Thixe living In the more aubttantlal houte managed to climb to accond and third atorlet, where they clung for hour through the chilly I night, limine In the wettcrn part of I the town did not at once feel the effect ef-fect of tho flood, and rctldenta made hurried atcpt for aafoty umtt of them I fleeing to the top nf the lerru on the ton III aide of the town A large num ber alto reached the little Milt which are a mil from town and from thero aaw their property crumble In the muddy water, to hen daylight came thla morning, the atrrets were full of water to a depth of ten or twelre feet. Only the mott tubatantlal building In tli central butlnctt dlttrlct remain ttandlng W'nter l'crynhere |
