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Show APPALLINO DISASTER VISIT? ORTGON TOWN. Wall of Water fiwrrpi Down Dpon Unauipecting Prople. Five Hua. dred Llvea Delng Lott. From 'llcppn.-r, fr. f"ti, inmm l. new of the mo t appallltm illa.ni,., that over visit, -d that at-tl"., wj, , tho little town of lloppti-r waa nl;r totnlly ilcft.oiod by a cl,.ii.ll.iiral probably r,". ph. drowned. All telek-nipli and tel. phi.nn r,, are down ntel let nccuru'e Itirormntb.u rati ho received fi.itn the a. eno of t j, . . disaster, but from Hi" report nt liim.i It la believed nt leant r."K p.s.pl,, h met death, while the number tuny be coiisliletably laiK'-r. lleppner la the rounly aeat of l..r row rounly, and had nl I lului. Itntita. Tho raliimlty iscurre.l nl ft p. m . when a wall of water two- ly foot him ruahe.l down Iho uuli h lir which ((,;. n. r la aliuated and carried pverytldiK beb.ro It. Thn IIihmI ram with aMI (, auddenneaa that thn liihnl. Hants ,... iinabln to eok place of aafety ami worn carried dow n to ib-nth by the awful aw-ful rush nf water. Almost tho ontlro reablenco srril..ii nf the town waa wiped out, but i.ui.o of thn liiialnesti pnrl, which 1 on hlKher urollllil, eacnped. HlIKe Imwi-dnra Imwi-dnra wclk-hlnii a ton wero carried down by the torrent, anil many pcoplo worn ! klllod by holm dashed against Ujo rock bluff. Earl In the afternoon a thuiifr-r-atorta occurred, rnvorlna; a wldo ro-(liia ro-(liia of country, and later a heavy rainstorm aot In, many of the aim 11 atronma ovorllowliiK, their bank In un Incredibly abort time. Ilrldiiea wero wept awny like atrawa and thn ilnk-oeaa ilnk-oeaa of tho nlnht aooa inado tho ilua. tlon more appalling. Al loon aa poaalblo after the tor rllilo flood lubaldoil tho work of roltof ra commenced by the rltltona of the town. Doienn of bodloa were found loditod all alone, tho bnnda of tho troain, and In aoveral placoa were pllod ovor one anothnr. Ovor !" bodlea bavo boon ro over.il within Um city llmlta. The bulldliiKB which were not rar-rlod rar-rlod away wero moved from Ibelr fouinlalloiie or loppled over. Hundred of cattlo, horaua, eheep and boi;a Uiat bad none Into tho crock bottoma for water perished. Aa Ham aa thn n.ma of tlio dl.ter rea hod tha nulnl.le world relief wna eitoudod to tho wrlcken town Thu ur,.ott Itallwiiy ti Navigation con sialic I n relief train from Tho pll. a shortly nfter noon, with a party j l"ii. Inclu ling threo doctor, four ir-.-s. I, fly In is. s, blnnkota and Ilea of till kinds, i lleppner Is In tlio center of a lnre firniln and ntock Krowlnn country. iTh. to'n la built cm Iho banka of Wil-il,,w Wil-il,,w ere. !.. In tho neltililioihrod of the '(otiveritniK I" l"t of rour oilier nirnir-taiti nirnir-taiti at e.'ima that drain a lartpy nrcn of tolllna: and hjlly country that rn. bes from Kir.-e lo twenty mlloa lo il,,. fi nihil and nli.tiR Iho rniiino i t RMlow creek Itself for a distance- of i.inyflio ii Ilea to iho bnio if Ihe j'.hi.. inuiinialtia. Leslie Mini., ik, a yomiK niaa, wna tlie hero of t lie day. When tho Iho.! Ar t emtio ho mounted a horao nnd rude at hroalinei k apoed down tlio can run in front of tho rttslilnit water In oc'Hy Iho piiiplii of l.exlngtnn. n in. ill town nl no mile below. Ilo ltnd lo I'M over a rnudi ar.d atony road, nnd tin. nl, lit waa dark and atnrmy. Ill" hiese b aped over bouldera, aonietlme nearly tlirowliiK thn rider, but yet not ot.ee I. sins- bin feet. Ho arrlirl lit LetltiRton Jual a few nilnutoa aheii.l nf thn lliaid. Thn piv.plo wero wnrned nd linmellut.-ly left for tho billable, laxt ItavliiK tliuo to takn nnylhltiK with tth.'iii. Kvory peraon eacnped, but uiieu ;thn flisnl had paaae.l only two buuac 'vera atniidlnK. I Word bna been n-relved from lone that 5nO rolllna aro needed at once nt llleppnor. Tho weatbor la hot, and II THE LIGHT THAT NEVER FAIL9. ... . P..,.,. ....... ... ..,..,,.. . ... . I. .. 1 -.fWy y (y, - la necessary that tho dead ahould be burled at once. It la estimated that tha damngo dono to property alono wna $riOO,000. |
